by Fletch » Fri Apr 19, 2019 9:56 pm
Revealed: The U.S. military's 36 code-named operations in AfricaBetween 2013 and 2017, U.S. special operations forces saw combat in at least 13 African countries, according to retired Army Brig. Gen. Don Bolduc, who served at U.S. Africa Command from 2013 to 2015 and then headed Special Operations Command Africa until 2017. Those countries, according to Bolduc, are Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Somalia, South Sudan and Tunisia. He added that U.S. troops have been killed or wounded in action in at least six of them: Kenya, Libya, Niger, Somalia, South Sudan and Tunisia.
Using documents obtained via the Freedom of Information Act, interviews, published reports and a Defense Department list of named U.S. military operations that leaked online, Yahoo News put together the following list of 36 operations and activities that are (or were until recently) ongoing in Africa.
https://news.yahoo.com/revealed-the-us- ... 00841.htmlLeaked operations names:
https://fas.org/irp/agency/dod/milops-2018.pdfThe public's gaze stops at Libya when it come to Africa. The US are involved as much there as anywhere else in the world.
[b]Revealed: The U.S. military's 36 code-named operations in Africa[/b]
Between 2013 and 2017, U.S. special operations forces saw combat in at least 13 African countries, according to retired Army Brig. Gen. Don Bolduc, who served at U.S. Africa Command from 2013 to 2015 and then headed Special Operations Command Africa until 2017. Those countries, according to Bolduc, are Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Somalia, South Sudan and Tunisia. He added that U.S. troops have been killed or wounded in action in at least six of them: Kenya, Libya, Niger, Somalia, South Sudan and Tunisia.
Using documents obtained via the Freedom of Information Act, interviews, published reports and a Defense Department list of named U.S. military operations that leaked online, Yahoo News put together the following list of 36 operations and activities that are (or were until recently) ongoing in Africa.
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https://news.yahoo.com/revealed-the-us-militarys-36-codenamed-operations-in-africa-090000841.html
Leaked operations names: https://fas.org/irp/agency/dod/milops-2018.pdf
The public's gaze stops at Libya when it come to Africa. The US are involved as much there as anywhere else in the world.