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1 online resource : illustrations, maps |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
| Summary |
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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Includes index |
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Special operations (Military science) -- United States
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Special operations (Military science) -- Africa
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Proxy war.
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Geopolitics.
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Colonialism & Post-Colonialism.
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Imperialism.
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Proxy war
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Special operations (Military science)
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Africa
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United States
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Electronic books
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781608465002 |
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1608465004 |
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9781608464630 |
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1608464636 |
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