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AFRICOM Chief Pushes for U.S. Troops to Return to Somalia

@G3News: US troops capped off their return to Somalia with a pullout at the end of the Trump Administration. This doesn’t appear to have ended the US mission there, however, and AFRICOM seems to be hoping to use that as a justification for going back.

AFRICOM chief Gen. Stephen Townsend didn’t want to detail his “options,” but did say that the training advise and assist missions are a lot harder when US troops aren’t in Somalia.

That’s not surprising. US operations in Somalia, to the extent they were seen, seemed mostly limited to assassinating suspected militants in rural Somalia and fueling complaints of civilian deaths, which they constantly dismissed.
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