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Africom has nothing to do with any Sino-American cold war scenario. It's more about utilizing more efficient command and control structures; also providing more effective liaison training to native security forces—in short, about establishing the rule of law so there's not a humanitarian crisis emerging every 2 years. This spate of pirate attacks are hardly an excuse for the United States to become more active militarily in the greater African continent. We can already do that (if we had the means). Unfortunately, we're overextended militarily as it is in Iraq and Afghanistan. US Military thinking is evolving much more towards training of local forces. The pirate issue is something that all nations involved in international trade have to deal with since we're talking about the security of a major sea lane. You may be playing devil's advocate here, but the points you are conveying are overly simplistic and frankly, rather boring. And your patronizing tone makes it all the more annoying.
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- Thank you.TheBlueOne
- you can't over extend a corporate mercenary force, more fight = good business.KwesiJ
- What corporate mercenary foe? Are you seriously suggesting that Blackwater would be able to launch an invasion of Somalia?TheBlueOne
- Somalia? And what? Hold it? You're out of your mind...TheBlueOne
- invansion? man they're fighting little gangs of africans. same thing they're doing in pakistanKwesiJ
- mercs. are in fact fighting in africa and pakistan as we speakKwesiJ
- yet many people keep talking about 'over extending the military'KwesiJ
- PMCs are no substitute for the American military. They're just a band aid.homeostatic