"The purpose of this thesis is to address the current need for a unified or sub-unified military egional combatant command headquarters within Africa. The United States needs such a command in order to protect U.S. national interests, provide a proactive forward deployed stance against the Global War On Terrorism (GWOT), and better execute crisis resource contingency operations throughout the entire continent of Africa. Thus, this thesis will argue that given the continued focus on the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT), the United States should consider establishing a future political-military organization such as a unified or sub-unified African Regional Combatant Command (ARCC) and a Regional African Special Operations Command (RA-SOC) to both promote democratic initiatives and regional stability within the region, and to better assist and support U.S. national security interests by deterring and defeating international and regional terrorist networks well away from US borders. This newly proposed organization, at a minimum, should have a forward deployed political-military element positioned and located somewhere within the region of Sub-Saharan African. Specifically, this thesis will recommend that this proposed forward deployed regional headquarters should strategically be located within the sub-region of West Africa or East Africa."--p.i.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:nps.edu/oai:calhoun.nps.edu:10945/1733 |
| Date | 09 1900 |
| Creators | Brown, Charles M. |
| Contributors | Simons, Anna, Lober, George, Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)., Defense Analysis |
| Publisher | Monterey California. Naval Postgraduate School |
| Source Sets | Naval Postgraduate School |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | xii, 80 p. : ill. col. maps ;, application/pdf |
| Rights | Approved for public release, distribution unlimited |
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