The United States is deploying growing numbers of troops to Africa's most lawless regions, including the part of Niger where four special operations soldiers died in an ambush last week. "The U.S. military presence in the Sahel and sub-Saharan regions has grown to at least 1,500 troops," Politico says, "roughly triple the official number of American troops in Syria."
From Politico:
Current and former military officials say the distinction between advising and combat is blurring as U.S. troops expand their footprint and increase the patrols they conduct in terrorist sanctuaries alongside local allies.
“You're damn right they're in harm's way," said a former military officer with direct knowledge of the Africa operations who was not authorized to speak publicly, "because we are accompanying the indigenous forces and those forces are fighting an active, thinking enemy there."
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