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Tomorrow's battlefield : US proxy wars and secret ops in Africa /
Investigative journalist and bestselling author Nick Turse exposes the shocking expansion of the U.S. military's covert wars in Africa.
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago, IL :
Haymarket Books/Dispatch Books,
[2015]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Introduction; 1. America's Shadow Wars in Africa: Obama's Scramble for Africa; 2. Blowback Central: The Terror Diaspora; 3. AFRICOM's Gigantic "Small Footprint": The Pivot to Africa; 4. American Proxy Wars in Africa: A New Model for Expeditionary Warfare; 5. Nonstop Ops in Africa: US Military Averaging More Than a Mission a Day in Africa; 6. AFRICOM Becomes a "War-Fighting Combatant Command": Going to War on the Sly; 7. The Pentagon, Libya, and Tomorrow's Blowback Today: How Not to End Violence in a War-Torn Land.
- 8. How "Benghazi" Birthed the New Normal in Africa: A Secret African Mission and an African Mission That's No Secret9. An East-West Showdown: China, America, and a New Cold War in Africa?; 10. Christmas in July and the Collapse of America's Great African Experiment: As a Man-Made Famine Looms, Christmas Comes Early to South Sudan; 11. American Monuments to Failure in Africa? How Not to Win Hearts and Minds; 12. American "Success" and the Rise of West African Piracy: Pirates of the Gulf of Guinea.
- 13. The Outpost That Doesn't Exist in the Country You Can't Locate: A Base Camp, an Authoritarian Regime, and the Future of US Blowback in AfricaAfterword: Finding Barack Obama in South Sudan; Appendix; Acknowledgments; A Note on the Text; Index; About Nick Turse; About TomDispatch; About Dispatch Books.