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  • South com may be the hardest and the primary role of africom and centcom may be the facilitation of state and domestic infrastructure relative to resource extraction and market development.

    China Rising: Assessing China's impact on America 2010

  • We can do this by making south com, pac com, cent com and africom territorial security forces.

    China Rising: Assessing China's impact on America 2010

  • Now, in perhaps the ultimate nod to what some consider Wald's foresight — others fear it is a sign of the militarization of U.S. foreign policy — the Pentagon is creating an Africa command base, africom, that will be modeled on eucom and the four other regional military commands worldwide.

    Letter from Timbuktu Merrill, Austin 2007

  • "zone_info": "huffpost. politics/blog; featured-posts = 1; politics = 1; yahoo = 1; nickname = marcia-desanctis; entry_id = 145674; @ypolitics = 1; @yworld = 1; africa = 1; africom = 1; barack-obama = 1; national-security = 1; pentagon = 1; pirates = 1; security = 1",

    Marcia DeSanctis: Piracy and Us 2009

  • "zone_info": "huffpost. world/blog; world = 1; nickname = groundreport; entry_id = 156654; @ypolitics = 1; @yworld = 1; africa = 1; africom = 1; airlines = 1; barack-obama = 1; barack-obama-2008 = 1; groundreport = 1; nigeria = 1; nigeria-oil = 1; obama = 1; oil = 1; opposition-to-africom = 1; president-obama = 1",

    GroundReport: As Opposition Grows, Africom Could Be A Headache For Obama 2009

  • "zone_info": "huffpost. world/blog; featured-posts = 1; world = 1; nickname = jeff-stein; entry_id = 378503; afghanistan-war = 1; africom = 1; anthropology = 1; centcom = 1; cia = 1; counterinsurgency = 1; counterterrorism = 1; espionage = 1; military-intelligence = 1; paccom = 1; social-science = 1; spying = 1; us-army = 1",

    Jeff Stein: Anthropology Association Condemns Work with U.S. Counterinsurgency 2009

  • "zone_info": "huffpost. world/blog; featured-posts = 1; world = 1; nickname = ruthie-ackerman; entry_id = 338676; africom = 1; ceasefire = 1; child-soldiers = 1; colonel-moussa-dadis-camara = 1; conflict = 1; education = 1; ellen-johnson-sirleaf = 1; guinea = 1; job = 1; liberia = 1; massacre = 1; military = 1; rape = 1; ruthie-ackerman = 1; violence = 1; war = 1",

    Ruthie Ackerman: Liberia: The Real Danger is Not Spending Enough 2009

  • "zone_info": "huffpost. world/blog; featured-posts = 1; world = 1; nickname = john-feffer; entry_id = 231903; africa = 1; africom = 1; empire = 1; ghana = 1; obama = 1; pentagon = 1",

    John Feffer: How Much Does the U.S. Empire Cost? 2009

  • "zone_info": "huffpost. green/blog; featured-posts = 1; green = 1; nickname = john-feffer; entry_id = 242040; africom = 1; energy = 1; gas-prices = 1; gas-station-tv = 1; niger-delta = 1",

    John Feffer: America: Gassed to Death 2009

  • "zone_info": "huffpost. politics/blog; featured-posts = 1; politics = 1; nickname = ken-bacon; entry_id = 116760; @ypolitics = 1; @yworld = 1; africa = 1; africa-economy = 1; africom = 1; bush-africa = 1; state-department = 1",

    Ken Bacon: Reshaping U.S. Military Policy in Africa 2008

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