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Obama announces $5 billion Counterterrorism Partnerships Fund for African Sahel & South Asia

Posted by David Wiley

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In major foreign policy address at West Point, Obama calls for new $5 billion Counter-terrorism Partnerships Fund for training from Sahel to South Asia. Read full address at West Point: Obama address to West Point cadets (http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Articles/2014/05/28/Obama-Outlines-5-Billion-Counter-Terror-Initiative) Continue reading →

May·30

U.S. Osprey Aircraft removed from hunt for Lord’s Resistance Army, probably to re-enforce U.S. crisis-response team in Sicily

Posted by David Wiley

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   Jeremy Binnie, (London) in IHS Jane’s Defence Weekly, (April 14) reported that after a short stay in Central and East Africa, the U.S. tiltrotor Osprey aircraft have been removed from the U.S. operations against the Lord’s Resistance Army (See previous blogpost); … Continue reading →

May·22

Mali as the model for future U.S. counter-terrorism in Africa

Posted by David Wiley

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The US Army’ s Combating Terrorism Center (CTC) at West Point has emerged as one of the key DOD research and policy centers among many sites of research and planning on “terrorism in Africa.” In the lead article in this … Continue reading →

Feb·24

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