Tabla de Contenidos:
  • AFRICOM: SECURITY, DEVELOPMENT, ANDHUMANITARIAN FUNCTIONS; CONTENTS; PREFACE; AFRICOM'S DILEMMA:THE "GLOBAL WAR ON TERRORISM, ""CAPACITY BUILDING, "HUMANITARIANISM, AND THE FUTURE OFU. S. SECURITY POLICY IN AFRICA*; FOREWORD; BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF THE AUTHOR; SUMMARY; INTRODUCTION; Background; Promises and Reservations; AGGREGATION AND DISAGGREGATION; TRANSNATIONAL ISLAMIST TERRORISM AND AFRICA; Religion; Poverty and Disease; CASE STUDY: THE SAHEL, THE GSPC, AND OEF-TS; Islam and North Africa; Local Factors; The GSPC, the Sahel, and al-Qaeda; The GSPC and the GWOT.
  • CASE STUDY: SOMALIA, AL QAEDA, AND CJTF-HOASecurity in the Horn; Somalia and the Failed State/Terrorism Nexus; CONCLUSION; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES; AFRICA COMMAND:U.S. STRATEGIC INTERESTS AND THEROLE OF THE U.S. MILITARY IN AFRICA*; SUMMARY; ISSUES FOR CONGRESS; THE DOD PROPOSAL FOR A NEW AFRICA COMMANDCHANGES TO THE UNIFIED COMMAND PLAN; COMBATANT COMMAND "PLUS"?; INTERAGENCY COORDINATION; STRUCTURE AND FOOTPRINT; Headquarters Location.; Assistance; Manpower.; U.S. STRATEGIC INTERESTS IN AFRICA; Africa and the Unified Command Plan; CURRENT U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY TOWARDAFRICA.
  • Oil and Global Trade. Maritime Security.; Armed Conflicts.; Terror.; HIV/AIDS.; U.S. MILITARY ASSISTANCE AND SECURITY COOPERATIONIN AFRICA: AN EXPANDING ROLE; Combined Joint Task Force: Horn of Africa (CJTF-HOA).; SECURITY ASSISTANCE; Operation Enduring Freedom: Trans Sahara (OEF-TS)/Trans SaharaCounter-Terrorism Partnership (TSCTP).; International Military Education and Training (IMET).; The African Contingency Operations Training and Assistance Program(ACOTA)/ Global Peace Operations Initiative (GPOI).; REGIONAL PERSPECTIVES; CONGRESSIONAL INTEREST AND OVERSIGHT ISSUES; RELATED CRS REPORTS.
  • APPENDIX 1. HISTORY OF U.S. MILITARYINVOLVEMENT IN AFRICAAPPENDIX 2: INSTANCES OF THE USE OF U.S. ARMEDFORCES IN AFRICA, 1950-2006115; APPENDIX 3: ACRONYMS; TESTIMONY BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ONNATIONAL SECURITY AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS, COMMITTEE ON OVERSIGHT ANDGOVERNMENT REFORM, HOUSE OFREPRESENTATIVES*: AFRICOM: JOINED-UP GEOGRAPHICCOMMAND OR FEDERAL BUSINESSOPPORTUNITY?; INTRODUCTION; COMBATANT COMMAND OR CONTRACTED COMMAND?; THE ""INTERAGENCY"" ISSUE; CONCLUSION.
  • STATEMENT BEFORE THE U.S. HOUSE OFREPRESENTATIVES COMMITTEE ONOVERSIGHT AND GOVERNMENT REFORM, SUBCOMMITTEE ON NATIONAL SECURITYAND FOREIGN AFFAIRS: "AFRICOM: VISION AND PROSPECTS"*FIRST, WHAT IS THE STRATEGIC VISION DRIVING THECREATION OF AFRICOM AND HOW HAS IT EVOLVED?; SECOND, WHAT ARE THE CURRENT AND FUTURE MISSIONSPLANNED FOR AFRICOM? WHAT TYPE OF SOFT POWERMANDATE DOES IT HAVE?; THIRD, TO THE EXTENT AFRICOM IS NOT THE MODELFOR A ""WHOLE OF GOVERNMENT"" APPROACH, WHAT IS?; AFRICA COMMAND: TESTIMONY BEFORE THE HOUSE OFREPRESENTATIVES COMMITTEE ONOVERSIGHT AND GOVERNMENT REFORM(HOGR)*