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Violence has Spiked in Africa Since the Military Founded AFRICOM, Pentagon Study Finds
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of The Intercept
Posted: August 26th, 2019
https://theintercept.com/2019/07/29/pentagon-study-africom-a...
Since U.S. Africa Command began operations in 2008, the number of U.S. military personnel on the African continent has jumped 170 percent, from 2,600 to 7,000. The number of military missions, activities, programs, and exercises there has risen 1,900 percent, from 172 to 3,500. Drone strikes have soared and the number of commandos deployed has increased exponentially along with the size and scope of AFRICOMs constellation of bases. AFRICOM disrupts and neutralizes transnational threats in order to promote regional security, stability and prosperity, according to its mission statement. But since AFRICOM began, key indicators of security and stability in Africa have plummeted according to the Defense Departments Africa Center for Strategic Studies, a Pentagon research institution. Overall, militant Islamist group activity in Africa has doubled since 2012, according to a recent analysis by the Africa Center. The number of violent events across the continent has jumped 960 percent, from 288 in 2009 to 3,050 in 2018, according to the Africa Centers analysis. While a variety of factors have likely contributed to the rise in violence, some experts say that the overlap between the commands existence and growing unrest is not a coincidence. The sharp increase in terrorist incidents in Africa underscores the fact that the Pentagons overly militarized approach to the problem has been a dismal failure, said William Hartung ... at the Center for International Policy.
Note: Drone strikes almost always miss their intended targets. And according to retired Army Gen. Mike Flynn, drone strikes create more terrorists than they kill. For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing news articles on military corruption from reliable major media sources.
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