charrob
12-10-2015, 06:43 PM
Pentagon Asks White House to Expand U.S. Military Bases Overseas
(http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/11/us/politics/pentagon-seeks-string-of-overseas-bases-to-contain-isis.html?_r=0)
The Pentagon has asked the White House to build up a series of U.S. military bases across Africa, Southwest Asia and the Middle East. The New York Times reports top military officials want the network of bases to serve as hubs "for Special Operations troops and intelligence operatives who would conduct counterterrorism missions" against groups like the Islamic State, ensuring an "enduring" American military presence in several regions overseas.
So this would be an increase from statistics given on this previous thread (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?485291-Tomorrow’s-Battlefield-U-S-Proxy-Wars-and-Secret-Ops-in-Africa) that stated:
This year worldwide:
U.S. special ops have been sent to a record 147 countries—75 percent of the nations on the planet.
It’s a 145 percent increase from the days of George W. Bush.
On any given day elite U.S. forces are on the ground in 70 to 90 countries.
There are scores of bases on the African continent. It’s upwards of 60 U.S. outposts, bases, access sites, spread all across Africa.
The U.S. military is now involved in more than 90 percent of Africa’s 54 nations [so greater than 48 countries in Africa alone].
AFRICOM carried out 674 missions across the African continent last year—an average of nearly two a day, and a 300 percent jump from previous years.
More information here: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/11/us/politics/pentagon-seeks-string-of-overseas-bases-to-contain-isis.html?_r=0
(http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/11/us/politics/pentagon-seeks-string-of-overseas-bases-to-contain-isis.html?_r=0)
The Pentagon has asked the White House to build up a series of U.S. military bases across Africa, Southwest Asia and the Middle East. The New York Times reports top military officials want the network of bases to serve as hubs "for Special Operations troops and intelligence operatives who would conduct counterterrorism missions" against groups like the Islamic State, ensuring an "enduring" American military presence in several regions overseas.
So this would be an increase from statistics given on this previous thread (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?485291-Tomorrow’s-Battlefield-U-S-Proxy-Wars-and-Secret-Ops-in-Africa) that stated:
This year worldwide:
U.S. special ops have been sent to a record 147 countries—75 percent of the nations on the planet.
It’s a 145 percent increase from the days of George W. Bush.
On any given day elite U.S. forces are on the ground in 70 to 90 countries.
There are scores of bases on the African continent. It’s upwards of 60 U.S. outposts, bases, access sites, spread all across Africa.
The U.S. military is now involved in more than 90 percent of Africa’s 54 nations [so greater than 48 countries in Africa alone].
AFRICOM carried out 674 missions across the African continent last year—an average of nearly two a day, and a 300 percent jump from previous years.
More information here: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/11/us/politics/pentagon-seeks-string-of-overseas-bases-to-contain-isis.html?_r=0