Posted on 05/19/2017 6:11:46 PM PDT by Lorianne
Six years ago, a deputy commanding general for U.S. Army Special Operations Command gave a conservative estimate of 116 missions being carried out at any one time by Navy SEALs, Army Green Berets, and other special operations forces across the globe.
Today, according to U.S. military documents obtained by VICE News, special operators are carrying out nearly 100 missions at any given time — in Africa alone. It’s the latest sign of the military’s quiet but ever-expanding presence on the continent, one that represents the most dramatic growth in the deployment of America’s elite troops to any region of the globe.
In 2006, just 1 percent of all U.S. commandos deployed overseas were in Africa. In 2010, it was 3 percent. By 2016, that number had jumped to more than 17 percent. In fact, according to data supplied by U.S. Special Operations Command, there are now more special operations personnel devoted to Africa than anywhere except the Middle East — 1,700 people spread out across 20 countries dedicated to assisting the U.S. military’s African partners in their fight against terrorism and extremism.
“At any given time, you will find SOCAFRICA conducting approximately 96 activities in 20 countries,” Donald Bolduc, the U.S. Army general who runs the special operations command in Africa (SOCAFRICA), wrote in an October 2016 strategic planning guidance report. (The report was obtained by VICE News in response to a Freedom of Information Act request and is published in its entirety below.) VICE News reached out to SOCAFRICA and U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) for clarification on these numbers; email return receipts show an AFRICOM spokesperson “read” three such requests, but the command did not offer a reply.
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Africa...?
Oh SURE..!
We’ll straighten out AFRICA in just a jiffy, yup..!
Would it be too much to ask to have just a few of these units re-deploy to our border with Mexico?
You know, the place with the narcoterrorist government, the hyper violent mafia gangs conducting mass murder on our border (and sometimes on our side of it), and the massive numbers of invasionists peppered with some seriously deranged terrorists?
My all-the-time, dependable, trustworthy news source.
NOT!
Bunch of far-left crybaby whining liberals with social justice warrior leanings.
Elite troops fight battles or run specific or specialized ops. They don’t win wars.
This squares with what actual SpecOps vets with Africa experience have told me. What part of it do you think is not credible?
That woman is from Effing.
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