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MAY 10, 2011
Militarizing Foreign Policy
Huffington Post
[AFRICOM] is assigned mandate to win friends and influence people; build military-to-military ties; monitor socio-politico-economic trends; engage in intelligence acquisition; compile data bases on would be/could be terrorists -- and their possible enablers, and do some public diplomacy.
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MAY 10, 2011
AFRICOM’s Libyan Expedition
Foreign Affairs
There was reason to worry that AFRICOM, which would lead the Operation Odssey Dawn, was too green, and its mandate too soft, for it to perform up to U.S. standards. Yet in launching the U.S. intervention in Libya, AFRICOM, led by its commander, General Carter Ham, acquitted itself well.
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MAR 31, 2011
U.S. Military and Africom - Between the Rocks and the Crusaders
AllAfrica
'The Western bombardment of Gaddafi's forces in Libya has become an opportunistic public relations ploy for the US Africa Command and a new inroad for US military stronghold on the continent,' writes Horace Campbell
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MAR 22, 2011
U.S. Africa Command Seen Taking Key Role
The Ledger
When the United States Africa Command was created four years ago, it was the military’s first “smart power” command. It has no assigned troops and no headquarters in Africa itself, and one of its two top deputies is a seasoned American diplomat.
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MAR 21, 2011
With Libya Fight, U.S. Africa Command Thrust Into a Leadership Role
The New York Times
When the United States Africa Command was created four years ago, it was the military’s first “smart power” command. It has no assigned troops, no headquarters in Africa itself, and one of its two top deputies is a seasoned American diplomat.
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