Obama’s Military Incursions Across Africa Lie Under the Radar

by | Jan 11, 2012

In the Obama administration’s “new-and-improved” covert war on terror, Africa is front and center. From the Atlantic shore across the Sahara to the Red Sea, the U.S. has deployed Marines and is militarily assisting a spate of African tyrannies engaged in warfare. Murky notions of al Qaeda-like enemies color the stated mission, but these expansions of empire into Africa are mostly secret.

Read the whole report from the Marine Corps Times. 

John Glaser writes for Antiwar.com.

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