Report: SOCOM Has More Troops In Africa Than Anywhere Except The Middle East
By Adam Weinstein
on May 18, 2017
There are now more U.S. Special Operations Command personnel deployed to Africa than anywhere outside the Middle East. That’s just one revelation from a newly unearthed 2016 internal military report that paints Africa as a possible future source of instability greater than “the threat that the United States currently faces from conflict in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria.”
Nearly one-fifth of U.S. Special Operations Command personnel deployed overseas are on missions in Africa, running almost a hundred active missions a day in 20 countries, according to documents and data obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request by Vice News’s Nick Turse. Those figures represent a 17-fold increase over the share of SOCOM deployments to Africa a decade ago.
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