Sahel-Sahara-report
Sahel-Sahara-report
Sahel-Sahara-report
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From New Frontier to New Normal:<br />
Counter-terrorism operations in the <strong>Sahel</strong>-<strong>Sahara</strong><br />
Richard Reeve and<br />
Zoë Pelter<br />
August 2014<br />
“The committee believes that U.S. Africa Command is on the front lines of the next phase of the<br />
terrorist threat”<br />
US House of Representatives Committee on Armed Services<br />
Report 113-446 on the National Defense Authorization Act for FY2015, 13 May 2014<br />
“We have to get used to operating in Africa, and they have to get used to us,” [Commander of Marine<br />
Corps Forces Africa Maj. Gen. Raymond] Fox told a Washington defense conference April 9.<br />
“We want Marines to be as familiar with Africa as they are with Iraq and Afghanistan. I don’t want<br />
the first time they see that place to be when they’re going in there for real. So we’re going to deliver<br />
a path where Africa sees more of us and we see more of Africa.”<br />
Marine Corps Times, 18 May 2014<br />
“But why review our military deployment in Africa if it has functioned so well up to the present<br />
Because the threat has diffused, it has multiplied. Because we must now respond to challenges<br />
which are those of speed, mobility, effectiveness and to do it with new means.”<br />
President François Hollande, N’Djamena, 19 July 2014
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