FILE - US forces host a range day with the Danab Brigade in Somalia, May 9, 2021.
DNYUZ/New York Times: U.S. Commandos Advise Somalis in Fight Against Qaeda Branch
BALEDOGLE, Somalia — The promise and perils of America’s counterterrorism campaign were on full display at a remote training base in central Somalia.
It was graduation day for 346 recruits who would join an elite Somali commando unit trained by the State Department, advised by U.S. Special Operations forces, and backed by American air power.
Since last August, the unit, called Danab, has spearheaded a string of Somali army victories against Al Shabab, an Islamist terrorist group that is considered the deadliest of Al Qaeda’s global branches.
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WNU Editor: The US military is also actively involved in other African countries .... U.S. Special Forces Launch Counter-Terrorism Drills With African Armies (Reuters).
Update: Here is an interesting read from Rolling Stone .... How Many More Governments Will American-Trained Soldiers Overthrow? (Rolling Stone).
It appears that the US record of training African soldiers has caused more problems than solutions ....
.... There have been at least seven coups led by soldiers who trained with Americans forces in Africa in recent years and the security situation only seems to be getting worse.
7 comments:
Rolling Stone is a piece of communist garbage. Nothing they say has any truth to it.
I kinda have to agree. After Matt Taibbi left, it has gone down hill and become a shrill rag.
Still look at it though, sometimes they can pick up on something. Just takes a while to sift through the verbal garbage to get to the facts.
Where are you going to send full6rtime trainers?
To troubled countries
Do troubled countries generally have more coups with or without trainers?
Countries that are not so troubled what is with them? They send foreign exchange officers. They work within the American military and American officer work within theirs. I have seen a British officer work in the US military. Access is no full of course in either country. But it does engender a measure of trust and you can still learn things.
It is almost exactly the way it is with multinationals America send a couple Americans to work in a foreign subsidiary and the foreign subsidiary sends a couple of people to work in the American company.
Foreign officers attend US military schools. I have met them. One was from Taiwan.
There are lots of Americans training with a huge number of foreign countries in exercise. The exercise have a limited duration in time of course.
Nick Terse should be named Nick Obtuse. If he were a scientist or engineer, he would be conducting experiments varying one variable at a time and wasting much money.
Consider Liberia. Are there American trainers there now? If there were and there was a coup, what would it mean? There has been a steady stream of coups in Liberia, since the 1950s. If someone read about a coup in the newspaper in Liberia anytime in the last 60 years, they would not be shocked. How would you then determine if a coup was because of the presence American trainers? You would need more than just the variable that American trainers had been present.
Maybe Nick Obtuse should be mocked, He could be called Nick One Variable or Nick One Variable Analysis. Or make it more hip. Call him Nick 1 Var
Some check Nick 1 Var's degree. His degree from a liberal arts college should be well rounded education. It is not. He is missing 5 of the 7 liberal arts
Seven arts may refer to: The traditional subdivision of the arts, being Architecture, Sculpture, Painting, Literature, Music, Performing, and Film The Seven Liberal Arts, being grammar, logic, rhetoric, arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_arts_education
Turse earned an MA in history from Rutgers University–Newark in 1999[6] and his doctorate in sociomedical sciences from the Columbia University's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) in 2005
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Turse
So Nick Turse put it in neutral. I do not know the curriculum for the degree de jure called sociomedical science. However many people in psychology, sociology and other fields ado take statistics. Statistical and other math software is relatively cheaper now and is ubiquitous. If he used it for work he could itemize the purchase of such software. Nick Turse should know better. In medicine do they look at more than one factor in a disease or several factors? Do they look at how those factors interact? Just look at the nature versus debate,. You have 2 factors, count them two(2). also doctors, scientists and others wonder how they interact.
So Nick Turde used is grammar, faulty logic, and rhetoric and eschewed the other arts to do his analysis. He is bottom feeding scum.
if some commenting folks would point to where the author is wrong that would be a more useful argument than pulling a dick and badmouthing the writer and his background or his place of publication. What you have learned from Trump seems a bit dated these days. Try something called evidence, facts, or data.
8:55 there was evidence facts and data. You just ignored them or you could not comprehend. Not for the first time and not for the last time have you been called functionally illiterate.
When I want to "try" figure out why Putin thinks what he thinks, I look at his childhood, his education (lawyer by training), his profession (spy). So it is with Nick Turse.
I have explained numerous times to you, Mr. Low Lexile Score, about variables and the need to consider more than just one. You have had several years to learn. All you have learned in several years is how to cobble together a website, learn the legal requirement for republishing free photos and how to look up nude pics. Mighty good use of a decade.
Would Mr. Badmouth be shocked, if he opened the Washington Post and learned there was a coup in Liberia? He would, since he has the memory of an amoeba.
So to reiterate, you have nothing.
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