Obama Brigades For Africa!

A brigade of 3,000 US soldiers will be deployed to Africa to battle terrorism and hunger or whatever…..

A brigade will deploy to Africa next year in a pilot program that assigns brigades on a rotational basis to regions around the globe, the Army announced in May.

Roughly 3,000 soldiers — and likely more — are expected to serve tours across the continent in 2013, training foreign militaries and aiding locals. (The Army Times  has more/GWP)

US marines are already in Uganda offering training and support to Ugandan and African Union soldiers [AFP]

“Kony” again!

Already US special forces have begun providing training and logistical support to Ugandan soldiers hunting Joseph Kony, leader of the Lords Resistance Army.

AFRICOM will participate in military missions, training of indigenous forces, and war exercises  (Antiwar.com)

A brigade of U.S. combat troops will soon be assigned to the Pentagon’s Africa Command to be sent to countries around the continent to train indigenous state security forces and participate in military exercises.

The strategy is characterized by military aid to and reliance on brutish, undemocratic regimes, proxy militias, and targeted special operations as opposed to full-scale invasion and occupation. All of this is done without the consent of Congress or the American people.

The Obama administration has deployed Marines and assisted a spate of African tyrannies engaged in warfare. Murky justifications of al Qaeda-like enemies color the stated mission, but these expansions of empire into Africa are a prime example of going abroad in search of monsters to destroy.

Through the Pentagon’s Africa Command, the U.S. is now training and equipping militaries in countries including Algeria, Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal and Tunisia in the name of preventing “terrorists from establishing sanctuaries.” The strategy appears irreconcilable with recent history, however, given the US-sponsored invasion of Somalia by Ethiopia in 2006 gave rise to the militant group al-Shabaab – now ironically justifying current interventions.

In terms of active military missions, the U.S. just recently backed regime change in Libya in favor of thuggish rebels who committed war crimes, is engaged in a proxy war in Somalia, sent combat troops to Uganda, is fighting a manufactured threat in Nigeria, among other things.

Gen. Ray Odierno, the Army’s chief of staff, says the new plan is “part of a new effort to provide U.S. commanders around the globe with troops on a rotational basis to meet the military needs of their regions,” reports CBS News. Notice the complete lack of pretense about any real or perceived threat which necessitates these military deployments to Africa. This also leads to Congress and the American people being left completely out of these expansionist military plans.