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Mon Nov 30, 2015, 01:50 PM Nov 2015

“Tomorrow’s Battlefield”

By Nick Turse, Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez
Source: Democracy Now



"Tomorrow's Battlefield": As U.S. Special Ops Enter Syria, Growing Presence in Africa Goes Unnoticed"

Published on Nov 13, 2015
Democracynow.org - "The recent U.S. deployment of special operations forces to Syria expands a global U.S. battlefield that is at a historic size. This year, special ops have been sent to a record 147 countries—75 percent of the nations on the planet. It’s a 145 percent increase from the days of George W. Bush. And it means that on any given day elite U.S. forces are on the ground in 70 to 90 countries. Those shocking numbers are revealed by our guest, the journalist Nick Turse. For years, Turse has been tracking the expansion of global U.S. militarism for the website TomDispatch and other outlets. His latest book, "Tomorrow’s Battlefield: U.S. Proxy Wars and Secret Ops in Africa," focuses on one particular American military battlefield that often goes unnoticed. Turse says the U.S. military is now involved in more than 90 percent of Africa’s 54 nations."

https://zcomm.org/zvideo/980289/

Qaddafi had to go. He was the only obstacle to this.


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