FOXNews
December 24, 2012

A U.S. Army brigade will begin sending small teams into as many as 35 African nations early next year, part of an intensifying Pentagon effort to train countries to battle extremists and give the U.S. a ready and trained force to dispatch to Africa if crises requiring the U.S. military emerge.

The teams will be limited to training and equipping efforts, and will not be permitted to conduct military operations without specific, additional approvals from the secretary of defense.

The sharper focus on Africa by the U.S. comes against a backdrop of widespread insurgent violence across North Africa, and as the African Union and other nations discuss military intervention in northern Mali.

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http://nation.foxnews.com/us-army/2012/1...y#ixzz2GGvaHBAi

My two thoughts.

For a Nobel Peace Prize winner, Obama sure loves to scatter American forces about the globe.

And General Ham is mentioned in the article. It wasn't that long ago that people were wondering where he was.