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2018-01-15 Terror Networks

Where in the World Is the U.S. Military? Everywhere

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Posted by Besoeker 2018-01-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 In proportion to population the Army/Marine Corps is now lower than it was in 1940, but as the article recounts, are spread across the world. Back then our 'international' commitments were the Panama Canal and the Philippines. Missions and commitments have got to end. He who defends everything, defends nothing.

Posted by Procopius2k 2018-01-15 08:30|| 2018-01-15 08:30|| Front Page Top

#2 Right now, across Africa, the U.S. military is providing massive amounts of military technology, hardware, training and expertise to local African militaries and police forces.

The dividends of abandonment and betrayal. Absolute and total insanity. The west made the Afrikan bed, now sleep in it.

Posted by Besoeker 2018-01-15 08:37|| 2018-01-15 08:37|| Front Page Top

#3 A result of the badly applied choice of influence over control, B.

Posted by Skidmark 2018-01-15 10:04|| 2018-01-15 10:04|| Front Page Top

Posted by Jack Chaiter7913 2018-01-15 20:41|| 2018-01-15 20:41|| Front Page Top

#5 we've been active in Africa since the beginning of the Angolan civil war, if not earlier.

I was in Rhodesia in the mid-70s, and spent a lot of time with the SA working Cubans wherever they were found.

Stayed out of the Congo though, thank God, I don't know any reason to waste bullets and blood in that fever hole.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2018-01-15 22:07|| 2018-01-15 22:07|| Front Page Top

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