Comments on: AFRICOM Continues to Expand

By: State Department Disperses Funds to the Wrong Country

State Department Disperses Funds to the Wrong Country — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 02:49:07 +0000

[...] have been regularly providing updates on Forward Deployed about the development of the US military’s AFRICOM and now it appears the command may be needed more then [...]

By: GI

GI — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 21:49:17 +0000

I would think South Africa would be one of the top options but I think domestic politics in South Africa may not want a US troop presence in the country plus the nation is still very dangerous with a high murder and crime rate.

I was talking to some South Africans I was training not to long ago about this and they told me Botswana of all places was a safer place to base US troops than South Africa.

I think Senegal is a another option worth looking at. It is close to the northern desert countries where Al Qaeda is active, is a peaceful Democracy that has had multiple transfers of power without violence, a growing economy, and a lower crime rate than South Africa.

However, Senegal is still a third world nation and assignment to Senegal would have to be something like with Korea where soldiers do a one year unaccompanied tour until the country develops more to where families could stay there.

By: Skippy-san

Skippy-san — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 01:56:48 +0000

I've never understood why they don't just move to South Africa. Good infrastructure-good options for families and good air connections North to the the rest of Africa.

Stable government too.