AFRICA

The Need for a U.S. National Security Presence in Africa

The Need for a U.S. National Security Presence in Africa

Introduction

The U.S. military presence in Africa was dictated in the past circumstances of the conflict during the Cold War between the poles, the former Soviet Union and the United States of America, which took over the course of world affairs (under unipolar) after the fall of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War in 1991, The idea of establishing a leadership U.S. military for Africa due to the year 2003, when Gen. James Jones, commander of U.S. forces in Europe (EUCOM) for the determination of the United States to be present on the territory of the continent. They do not want to stay away from what is happening in Africa and that it can no longer U.S. forces continue to monitor the situation in the African continent from the sea, so it is essential that there be a presence dollars on African soil, especially in the countries of North Africa and the southern desert, which became a haven for crime and the arms trade as well as the presence of groups allied to al-Qaeda as he put it and the countries of this area cannot impose its control over the region to counter these events.

Discussion

Causes of the current U.S. military presence in Africa September 11, 2001 the date directed by United States to update its policies and strategy through international expansion across the globe at all levels of military, political and economic order to achieve U.S. national security destruction, and has formed the African continent an important place in the This new American strategy after the emergence of the importance of the African continent for the vital interests of America and especially the U.S. National Security, which owns the continent oil reserves huge believes needs of the rising American power as they have plenty of important minerals to the industries in strategic as well as to explore the African continent on crossings and ports of the strategic mission in the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic and the Red Sea is also an African market is not significant for American products in addition to the growing role of China in Africa as the forces of economic competition of the United States as well as the presence of Islamist groups said to be a link to al Qaeda, which considers the United States of America that the first defendant for her in the events of the eleventh of September 2001, for these reasons, resorted to the United States of America to intensify its presence on the African continent to achieve its vital interests and U.S. national security.

The U.S. foreign policy has been absent for many decades from the stage. The Africa was not to take only a little space from the attention of policy makers of America, it was not seen in the presence of British and French on the African arena that threatens their interests, but has become ...