America’s expanding ‘shadow war’ in Africa

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America’s expanding ‘shadow war’ in Africa

"Today, however, Congress is barely more useful than an appendix, its constitutional powers abandoned, its independence defiled. U.S. forces in Niger and elsewhere in Africa — as well as the Middle East and elsewhere — operate under the ridiculous claim that the Authorization for the Use of Military Force, passed immediately after the 9/11 attacks that sanctioned action against groups and nations that participated in that attack, somehow applies 16 years later to missions against organizations that didn’t even exist when those attacks took place.

Congress and the American people are woefully uninformed about much more than the 800-plus troops in Niger. The United States is escalating what William Hartung, director of the Arms and Security Project at the Center for International Policy, terms a “shadow war” on the African continent. According to Vice’s Nick Turse, U.S. troops are now conducting 3,500 exercises, programs and engagements per year on the African continent, according to the U.S. military’s top commander for Africa, Gen. Thomas Waldhauser. That, Turse notes, is “an astounding 1,900 percent increase since the command was activated less than a decade ago.”

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