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No To the Afghan Plan.(International Edition; THE U.S. IN AFRICA)(Africom)(Brief article)
Byline: Scott Johnson
The United States is backing away from a plan to extend its Afghan strategy to Africa. When the idea for Africom, a new U.S. strategic command base in Africa, was first floated in early 2007, it envisioned using military personnel to do development and aid work as part of the campaign to win allies in the war on terror. It was inspired in part by the early success of the military's Provincial Reconstruction Teams, which have fused military operations and aid work in Afghanistan.
But that was before the Taliban began to revive last year, the death toll rose and Afghanistan began to slip into what a National Intelligence Estimate leaked last week describes as a "downward spiral." By the time Africom was officially unveiled last week, it had been scaled back, confining U.S. troops to intelligence-sharing and military training for African allies, and leaving development work to aid agencies.
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Source: HighBeam Research, No To the Afghan Plan.(International Edition; THE U.S. IN...