Around 84 percent of our U.S. forces are mostly in Germany and Central Europe and that is not necessarily where the security problem is anymore. The security problem is generating itself further to the east and further to the south. The turbulence to the Middle East culminating now in Operation Iraqi Freedom, the Caspian Sea, are becoming more strategically important from a standpoint of terrorism and the same thing applies to countries in the Horn of Africa as well as Sub-Saharan Africa.
That is very very interesting. A lot of talk the past week about Liberia...
Does this mean that in the near future we will see troops deployed on the African subcontinent in the war on terror?
I'm bookmarking this one.
Already there, at least on the eastern side of the continent. I think there is still a Marine unit operating in one of the East African countries, and the SpecOps folks seem to get around all over the place nowadays, for some reason.