AFRICOM'S PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES

Africom's Programs And Activities

Africom's Programs and Activities

Countering Transnational And Extremist Threats

Capacity building partnership is the basis for many of our strategic objectives. As we continue building the AFRICOM staff, we seek your support not only for our own efforts, but to develop the capabilities of other departments of U.S. government and civilian agencies whose expertise is essential for building missions stabilization and capacity abroad. While our traditional military experience and background allows us to offer great mobility, logistics and command and control capabilities to bear in support of efforts by the U.S. government, we remain concerned that if the international capabilities have not with more resources, non-traditional tasks, of necessity, default to the military.

A holistic approach to problems and challenges is by AFRICOM in support, the best way to follow U.S. International, and the interests of the allied nations. However, the construction of regional stability and security will take many years of constant and dedicated effort. There is no visible finish line. Therefore, supporting the congressional support is essential.

The key area of legislative assistance to enhance AFRICOM's ability to work collaboratively with other departments in the United States government and agencies is as follows:

* Provide budgetary flexibility to combatant commanders and ambassadors, including the formulation of the World Section 1206 Train and Equip authority permanent and expand to meet the demand of the State and Defense Department have been in the past three years;

Combatant Command Authority Budget Flexibility is essential to maximize responsiveness and agility Combatant Command to address the changing geostrategic landscape in which we operate. Section 1206 of the Law on National Defense Authorization to strengthen the capacity of Foreign Affairs of the Armed Forces, has proven itself to responding to emerging security challenges through the rapid construction and improvement of military capabilities of the main allies and partners. Africa's unique challenges in the field of security for the citizen (personal security), along with our strategy of active safety, the extension and expansion of these authorities, a tool of utmost importance. Make the training and equipping permanent authority, increasing the limit, and the establishment of an annual allocation of reference will help prevent problems from becoming crises, providing the flexibility to respond quickly to challenges within our area of responsibility. This authority is a vital element of the GWOT.

We request the Secretary of State Civil Response Force, and also strongly support the significant increase in the number of people who are looking for DoS and USAID in 2009 the President's budget. We also support increased funding for foreign assistance. These measures contribute to a greater ability to achieve U.S. foreign policy and national security objectives without committing U.S. forces.

Command presence is an important issue, but it is a matter of urgency. With this in mind, we set our initial operating facilities at Headquarters (HQ) in Stuttgart, Germany, with the intention to focus first on how we can best serve the objectives of the Command and the needs of the area of ...