The US recently announced the end of active combat for troops in Iraq. On the ground, there will only be small changes, but it could signal a different attitude towards Iraq. Last month, the US military announced it had ended its combat role in Iraq. The move comes just a few months after a July […]
20 years a month ago, Americans woke up to learn that the United States had invaded Iraq. They had been told it would cost $50 billion and that it would end soon. Forty-two days later the President declared Mission Accomplished, and that the U.S. would be greeted as liberators. That all didn't work out as […]
The Pentagon has begun a burst of spending in Africa, expanding its main base on the continent and investing in air facilities, flight services, telecommunications, and electrical upgrades as the U.S. Military deepen its footprint in a region with rising threats. Hundreds of millions of dollars in expenditures, detailed in unclassified federal documents, demonstrate Africa's […]
In recent years, U.S. military operations in Africa have greatly expanded. Washington has established forward operating locations (FOL) and drone bases. It has helped various African countries, like Liberia, retrain their militaries. It has tried to track rebel groups like the Lord’s Resistance Army and the East African terrorist group like Al-Shabaab. The U.S. Africa […]
A hasty U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan as the Taliban overpowered the government and took control of the capital left many wondering what happened to the trillions of dollars spent over the last two decades since 2001. Around $300 million a day was spent according to a Brown University calculation – that was spent on private […]