Talk:United States Africa Command

message: The acronym "AFRICOM" commonly resolves to a few other organizations, including an alliance of African museums, and an ISP based out of Zimbabawe. Therefore, I suggest people use "USAFRICOM" as the acronym for the U.S. military command structure. --Petercorless 06:11, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: That is the proper full military acronym anyway... 153.103.190.11 19:23, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: USAFRICOM vs. AFRICOM

message: What does "Bush had made the decision on 2006-12-15 to stand-up the new command." and "The President, on the 15th of December, made the decision to stand it up" mean? Create, mobilize, "forceful prevention"? -- Jeandré, 2007-02-10t17:41z
:'Stand up' is Western/english military slang for establish, or form for the first time.
Buckshot06 05:41, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Such as 'As Iraqis Stand Up, We Will Stand Down,' Bush Tells Nation. To "stand up" a unit means to mobilize and officially authorize, man and equip. It's an actual formal term in military jargon, and is not "slang." --Petercorless 05:52, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, we learn a new thing every day. Where would I find an official DOD definition of 'stand up'? Cheers Buckshot06 06:03, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I can't find a DOD definition, though I found plenty of DOD uses, which I cited in in a delightful new article: Stand up (military)... Enjoy! --Petercorless 07:45, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Stand up?

message: African governments may well support the war on terror, but, having thrown off British, French, Portuguese and white South African rule, African public opinion does not support the establishment of any new high-profile military bases or headquarters on the continent and African opposition to any such thing is entirely predictable (and I'm sure the State Department would have told the Department of Defence just that). Rexparry sydney 01:01, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  I read at the time, probably in Spiegel, that the German government was going to accommodate Africom in Stuttgart after all African countries had rejected to host it. I wonder how much rent they pay to the German government, because American influence in Africa is not a German cause, as far as I know. Nearly 10 years later than your remark, more Africans than ever are leaving Africa for Europe. One boat after the other arrives on Lampedusa crammed with Africans. Has the increased American military activity in Africa driven these people out or is it just more population growth than economic growth, or both? 2001:8003:A0B9:EF00:6D02:F49F:FCF6:F225 (talk) 03:45, 29 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  African opposition to a high-profile military establishment 

message: Why is the US Africa Command in Germany (Europe)?
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Why ain't it in the US or somewhere in Africa ?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.164.206.182 (talk) 09:12, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Because European Command, at Stuttgart, was responsible for most of Africa, and thus the temporary headquarters 'budded' off from EuCom was initially established there. The US wants to move the HQ to Africa, and due to African opposition, it will either eventually go to Africa or to somewhere in the States as you said. Buckshot06(prof) 09:49, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

text: Do you understand that effectively the only change was the name? There were previously three commands supervising various bits of Africa - US Central Command, European Command and Pacific Command. Now there is one. The one with the biggest area of responsibility in Africa, European Command, has effectively budded off a bit of its headquarters separately for Africa - and that's about the total of the effective changes. All the remaining U.S. military activites in Africa remain as before. 21:25, 28 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Germany/Africa 

message: http://www.defense.gov//news/newsarticle.aspx?id=116871
Worth a mention or link here? Hcobb (talk) 16:26, 23 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Daggers for USARAF? 

message: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37220.htm
- U.S. Africa Command has also built a sophisticated logistics system, officially known as the Africom Surface Distribution Network, but colloquially referred to as "the new spice route". Its central nodes are in Manda Bay, Garissa and Mombasa in Kenya; Kampala and Entebbe in
Uganda; Bangui and Djema in the Central African Republic; Nzara in South Sudan; Dire Dawa in Ethiopia; and the Pentagon's showpiece African base, Camp Lemonnier.
- the DOD uses drones and manned aircraft out of airports and bases around the continent including Camp Lemonnier, Arba Minch airport in Ethiopia, Niamey in Niger and the Seychelles Islands in the Indian Ocean, while private contractor-operated surveillance aircraft have flown missions out of Entebbe. Recently, Foreign Policy reported on the existence of a possible drone base in Lamu, Kenya.
- Another critical location is Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso,
home to a Joint Special Operations Air Detachment and the Trans-Sahara Short
Take-Off and Landing Airlift Support Initiative that, according to military
documents, supports "high-risk activities" carried out by elite forces from
Joint Special Operations Task Force - Trans-Sahara.
*Buckshot06 (talk) 22:10, 27 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Further activities

message: 74.60.161.158 (talk) 18:31, 6 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article needs update as of May, 2015 

message: I am going to WP:AFD the Magharebia article, but a short statement or section about it could be included here. Here are a few articles from the Washington Post about it. The site was an operation of USAFRICOM, but it doesn't seem to fit in this article's Operations section and I don't think it merits a section of its own. The site started in 2005 and the web domain was blanked sometime between January and April 2015. See Internet Archive for more info. Mnnlaxer (talk) 21:09, 8 June 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Here is the AfD Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Magharebia -Mnnlaxer (talk) 21:31, 8 June 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Can somebody else weigh in on the AfD for Magharebia? There is one other !vote and its been relisted for the second time just now. Mnnlaxer (talk) 02:42, 22 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Magharebia.com 

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