Posted on 03/02/2017 7:28:58 AM PST by Lorianne
In one of U.S. Africa Command’s largest exercises, a contingent of U.S. special operations forces is working alongside hundreds of troops in western Africa, a region threatened by the militant group Boko Haram.
Flintlock 2017, run by Special Operations Command Africa, kicked off Monday. Two thousand elite U.S., European and African troops are taking part in three weeks of rugged field training.
This year, Chad is serving as the main host for the exercises, which also involve training events in Cameroon, Niger, Mauritania, Morocco and Tunisia.
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It's a standard, rock simple foreign internal defense (FID) mission. It's dirt cheap, it builds international good will, and it can even help (to an extent) keep something resembling a stable government in place against psychotic rebel groups like, say, Boko Haram.
My thoughts exactly
That is what Special Forces do. Train the local military to do the job so we don’t have to send in conventional forces later.
It’s a standard, rock simple foreign internal defense (FID) mission. It’s dirt cheap, it builds international good will, and it can even help (to an extent) keep something resembling a stable government in place against psychotic rebel groups like, say, Boko Haram.
That has worked so well in other countries. /s
How do you know the people you are training won’t join Boko Haram or a similar group ... and now they have your training and probably military equipment?
That is what has happened numerous other places.
You just don’t know about when it does work.
Those countries don’t make headlines.
Like that hasn't happened here.
I'd hate to be this poor guy Chad.
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