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Tuesday, April 14, 2015

2044 or Bust Military Missions Reach Record Levels After U.S. Inks Deal to Remain in Africa for Decades

2044 or Bust
Military Missions Reach Record Levels After U.S. Inks Deal to Remain in Africa for Decades
By Nick Turse
For three days, wearing a kaleidoscope of camouflage patterns, they huddled together on a military base in Florida. They came from U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) and U.S. Army Special Operations Command, from France and Norway, from Denmark, Germany, and Canada: 13 nations in all. They came to plan a years-long “Special Operations-centric” military campaign supported by conventional forces, a multinational undertaking that -- if carried out -- might cost hundreds of millions, maybe billions, of dollars and who knows how many lives.
Click here to read more of this dispatch.http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175981/tomgram%3A_nick_turse%2C_the_u.s._military%27s_battlefield_of_tomorrow/#more

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