AFRICOM organization
also: United States Africa Command, the new command of AFRICOM
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AFRICOM founded
Operation Creek Sand host_asserted
“Anybody that he suspected as a threat, he would just murder them. AFRICOM, during Campari's rule, was permitted to open a new surveillance base at their capital's international airport. It was a classified program known as Operation Creek S…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Burkina Faso @ 37:49
AFRICOM founded
Aztec Archer host_asserted
“Anybody that he suspected as a threat, he would just murder them. AFRICOM, during Campari's rule, was permitted to open a new surveillance base at their capital's international airport. It was a classified program known as Operation Creek S…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Burkina Faso @ 37:49
George H.W. Bush appointed
AFRICOM documented
“Bush had first announced the plan for AFRICOM in February of 2007, explaining that its mandate was to guard America's vast spectrum of interest in Africa. In other words, we are going to guard and exploit Africa on behalf of the oligarchs i…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers Part 6 @ 36:50
AFRICOM funded
Aegis Defense Services host_asserted
“And as one of the participants in the privatization study pointed out, for the private military and security industry, AFRICOM marked the beginning of a new market. Already stretched militarily, America would have to turn to private militar…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers Part 6 @ 38:59
Mentions (19)
▶ 1:38:33
An attempted coup in Sudan, Malia and Miramar. And this goes back to 2020. And so as one of the House hearings, Matt Gaetz was talking to General Kellogg, who is the AFRICOM commander, or Langley, General Langley, sorry.…
▶ 37:49
Anybody that he suspected as a threat, he would just murder them. AFRICOM, during Campari's rule, was permitted to open a new surveillance base at their capital's international airport. It was a classified program known as Operation Creek S…
▶ 0:57
I texted it. Okay. Yeah. It's in space. Bridget, it's in spaces as well. Or the signal. Okay. Thank you. So Ethiopia is very interesting. And just so that you guys know, I don't think I've mentioned this. When I was at U.S. Central Command,…
▶ 1:54
Horn of Africa was part of the CENTCOM AOR and then basically the rest of Africa. And that's area of responsibility, meaning that if crap goes down, it's CENTCOM's responsibility. And again, this was before they stood up the command, the co…
▶ 30:54
over which they could assert power through the divide and conquer rules. To make matters worse, Eritrean president, these guys' names just cracks me up, Isris Afwarki, A-F-W-E-R-K-I, was considered, you guys are going to love this, a Castro…
▶ 1:03:29
And I'm starting to lose my shit. So thank you. I'll also share with you after I talked to the Texas congressman two days ago, I called again because I called like once a week for like the last, I don't know, three months to Matt Gaetz's of…
▶ 2:07
And of course I had to wait for my baby to have it. So it's been a long time coming, but totally excited about it. Okay. So I'm going to, for those of you who might be driving or listening to this, I do want to go over kind of where we're a…
▶ 1:24:03
To me, it was the most obvious, you know, but like you said, hard to break the programming. It is hard to break the programming, but we're dang sure going to try. And I also wanted to share with you guys some other very interesting informat…
▶ 21:09
Terst points out that in 2002 and 2003, before the creation of AFRICOM, which was set up in 2007, the State Department counted nine terrorist attacks in all of Africa, compared with 2,737 in 2022.…
▶ 22:09
15 years earlier. That's a 75,000% increase in terrorist attacks when the U.S. and AFRICOM and NATO comes to town. That's stunning. Stephanie Saville, co-director of Cost of War Project at Brown University, told Torst that a major issue fue…
▶ 1:22:00
long after I was gone, they created AFRICOM and put all of Africa under one unified command, which still has ran out of UCOM, ironically enough. So because AFRICOM is not actually in Africa, which tells you a lot from a military perspective…
▶ 35:53
Cardin knew most of the world did not distinguish between public and private sector security and defense in the United States military missions. This concerned him, as it did the participants in the study. And although their case study for …
▶ 36:24
Unified commands are responsible for running the Department of Defense operations in specific territories. And this one, which became operational October 1st, 2008, would mean, among other things, more business for private military security…
▶ 36:50
Bush had first announced the plan for AFRICOM in February of 2007, explaining that its mandate was to guard America's vast spectrum of interest in Africa. In other words, we are going to guard and exploit Africa on behalf of the oligarchs i…
▶ 37:21
from a military mission to a security operation, which was an interesting development for anyone well-informed about the military. And let me just tell you, having been present, I retired in July of 2008, just before it stood up. There was …
▶ 40:03
Already, let's see, already stretched militarily, Americans would turn to the private military to do a large portion. Once the Iraq and Afghanistan economic bubble burst, the private military contractors will seek new U.S. sponsor markets a…
▶ 40:35
Quote, senior leaders within the Department of Defense have repeatedly assured African nations that AFRICOM will have a small footprint on the continent with no new military units. Yet its mission remains ambiguous, requiring more than staf…
▶ 1:28:04
There is a warfighting command that is U.S. Central Command. There is U.S. Africa Command. There is U.S. European Command, UCOM. There is U.S. PACCOM. And those are the warfighters. So a thing that flares up like 9-11, we're going to go to …
▶ 1:30:50
that goes forward and supports that warfighter. And those are operational commands. Those are completely different from your services. The services are only to train and equip people to go work for warfighters. And so you can think of the A…