by DAVID AXE
“Helping to enhance and develop maritime safety and security capability and capacity in West and Central Africa is really the genesis of this initiative,” Capt. [Cindy] Thebaud said of [Africa Partnership Station].
Using a single ship and a few hundred sailors, Washington hopes to help build up native forces to secure the region’s waters. If successful, the effort could lead to a crackdown on smuggling, illegal fishing and human trafficking before the crimes balloon into full-fledged international crises.
It’s part of a strategy that has gained wide support after eight expensive years of war in Iraq and Afghanistan. To prevent what defense industry analyst Jim McAleese called “another trillion-dollar war,” American officials are looking for ways to root out the seeds of conflict before they grow.
Read the rest in The Washington Times.
(Photo: David Axe)
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