A few years ago, with little fanfare, the United States opened a base in the horn of Africa to kill or capture Al Qaeda fighters. By 2012, the Pentagon will have two dozen such forts. The story of Africa Command, the American military's new frontier outpost.
By Thomas P.M. Barnett
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(excerpt) "Africa Command promises to be everything Central Command has failed to become. It will be interagency from the ground up. It will be based on interactions with locals first and leaders second. It will engage in preemptive nation-building instead of preemptive regime change. It will 'reduce the future battlespace' that America has neither intention nor desire to own.
"It'll be Iraq done right."
Full article at: http://www.esquire.com/features/africacommand0707#story
