Africa Command plans approved by Bush, DOD officials confirm

[donsu]

http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=42476

President Bush has approved a plan for an Africa Command, defense officials said Friday.

Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Mullen mentioned the move during a visit Thursday to Naples.

“The President, on the 15th of December, made the decision to stand it up,” Mullen told sailors. “There was a working group for about the last, the last several months, to look at all of the issues that are associated with that.”

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As it stands, the UCP has most of Africa falling under the purview of Germany-based U.S. European Command; the Horn of Africa under the responsibility of U.S. Central Command; and Madagascar and other African Islands off the continent’s east coast under U.S. Pacific Command.

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Still, Chester Crocker, professor of strategic studies at Georgetown University, said just the act of creating an Africa Command, whatever its timetable or structure, is an important symbolic move.
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so now we can watch on TV Africans throwing stones as the US military uses shock and awe on them

[dave_p]

1. ?

"There was a working group for about the last several months"

Good to know they've clearly given it a lot of thought.

[Kagemusha]

2. Well if you're gonna have proxy wars

you might as well make the working group into something more permanent...

[jaxx]

3. There's oil in Africa.

Oil the great unequalizer.

[jwirr]

4. Look out Niageria/