ARTICLE: "U.S. Training in West Africa Aims to Stave Off Extremists," by Eric Schmitt, New York Times, 13 December 2008.
Besides Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa, the U.S. military's counterterrorism aid and training package in West Africa is the other great sourcecode for AFRICOM.
Sensibly preventive, because you have to understand just how tiny all these local militaries are. You take about 20 of them and you've got the equivalent of our Marines.
USAID efforts are coordinated, and local embassies are tuned in. This is real 3D stuff (diplomacy, development, defense). Few troops and not much money involved, showing that SysAdmin work need not be expensive if pursued intelligently.
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