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