{"id":357050,"date":"2018-04-16T20:12:54","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T19:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/washington-seeks-permanent-deployment-of-special-forces-brigade-to-africa\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T20:12:54","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T19:12:54","slug":"washington-seeks-permanent-deployment-of-special-forces-brigade-to-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/washington-seeks-permanent-deployment-of-special-forces-brigade-to-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington seeks permanent deployment of special forces brigade to Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>Washington seeks permanent deployment of special forces brigade to Africa<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Eddie Haywood<br \/>\n    <br \/>16 April 2018<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>Republican Senator James Inhofe of the Senate Armed Services Committee last week sent a letter to Secretary of the Army Mark Esper outlining a proposal that would constitute an increase in troop levels deployed under AFRICOM, as well as broadening the American military\u2019s footprint across Africa.<\/p>\n<p>In his letter, Inhofe requested the Army secretary give his views regarding the assignment to AFRICOM of one of the six new Security Forces Assistant Brigades (SFAB). The special brigade, if deployed, would provide an additional 500 troops on a permanent basis for AFRICOM.<\/p>\n<p>Inhofe wrote, \u201cAs you know, AFRICOM does not have any assigned forces, but must compete for allocated forces within the Department of Defense\u2019s global force management process. The Army has allocated a Brigade Combat Team (BCT) to AFRICOM in the recent past as part of the Regionally Aligned Forces (RAF) program. These operations were a success for our African nation partners and built strategic partnerships for the United States. However, they also negatively affected the allocated BCT\u2019s readiness, especially for core missions such as full spectrum combat operations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The SFAB were officially introduced last year with the first of six brigades activated. According to the Pentagon, the new units were \u201ccreated in order to train, advise, assist, enable and accompany host nation conventional forces in infantry, armor, cavalry, engineer, artillery and combined arms warfare.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the US Army website, the Pentagon envisions the SFAB as \u201cspecifically built to achieve the Army\u2019s vision of enabling combatant commanders to carry out theater security objectives through partnered and allied&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2018\/04\/16\/afric-a16.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Washington seeks permanent deployment of special forces brigade to Africa By Eddie Haywood 16 April 2018 Republican Senator James Inhofe of the Senate Armed Services Committee last week sent a letter to Secretary of the Army Mark Esper outlining a proposal that would constitute an increase in troop levels deployed under AFRICOM, as well [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-357050","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}