December 21, 2007

The Military and U.S. Foreign Policy

By DEREK S. REVERON

When President Bush announced in early 2007 that the United States would become more strategically engaged in Africa, it was through the creation of a new military command — U.S. Africa Command — and not through increasing the budgets of the U.S. Agency for International Development or the State Department's Bureau of African Affairs. Yet, tellingly, this new "combatant" command isn't focused on fighting wars but on promoting stability and international

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