Partnership
Security
Stability
UNITED STATES
AFRICA COMMAND
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Unified Command Structure
5 Geographical Commands
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European Command (EUCOM)
Pacific Command (PACOM)
Central Command (CENTCOM)
Northern Command (NORTHCOM)
Southern Command (SOUTHCOM)
AFRICOM will be 6th geographic command
CDR and staff entirely focused on Africa
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United States Africa Command
Our Area of Responsibility
Consolidates the continent under one unified command
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Simplifies coordination of DOD activities in Africa and facilitates
cooperation with existing regional organizations
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United States Africa Command
USAFRICOM’s Mission …
Our Proposed Mission Statement
United States Africa Command conducts sustained security engagement
through military to military programs, military sponsored activities, and
other military operations as directed to promote a stable and secure
African environment in support of U.S. foreign policy.
We are a command under construction…
Accepting missions from the other
unified commands in a deliberate,
seamless fashion
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Building the team and building
relationships with our partners and
friends
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United States Africa Command
Commander’s Initial Guidance
Build the Team
Enable the Work
of Africans
Accept
Missions
Engage
the U.S.
Engage
Africa
Add Value & Do No Harm
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United States Africa Command
Our Role
Department of State leads
U.S. foreign policy
Continent-wide: African Union
Regional: Regional Economic
Community (REC)
Bi-Lateral: With each nation
Embassies
Coordinate all activities with
USAMBs to host nations
Exercise military to
military contacts
Help harmonize the
U.S. Government
effort
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USAID
Treasury
FBI
Commerce
Energy
Agriculture
DHS
Others
Apply DOD capabilities to meet needs of African states
and organizations, and support U.S. foreign policy
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United States Africa Command
Building the (Broader) Team
We seek to partner with everyone with interests on the
continent and its island nations
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U.S. Government
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African Partners
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UN, NATO, EU, Euro. Militaries
Donor community
Civil Society
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African Union and its Regional Economic
Communities (RECs)
African nations, African militaries
International Partners
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State, USAID, Treasury, Homeland Security,
and other U.S. Government agencies
U.S. Missions in Africa
NGOs, Humanitarian relief and
development organizations
Academia, ‘think tanks’
Industry
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Private sector organizations
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United States Africa Command
Where We Add Value
Activities
Missions
MEDFLAG
CJTF-Horn of Africa and OEF-Trans-Sahara
Africa Partnership Station
Programs
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Exercises
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FLINTLOCK 07, Mali
United States Africa Command
Strategy of “Active Security”
Persistent, Sustained Level of Effort
Building Partner
Security Capacity
Fostering
Continued
Dialogue and
Development
Supporting
Humanitarian
Assistance Efforts
Providing
Crisis Response
Oriented on Preventing Conflict
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…to Enable the
Work of Africans
United States Africa Command
A Draft Vision for a New Command
A Joint, Interagency, Intergovernmental, and Multinational
(JIIM) unified command that…
• Develops and implements Department of Defense programs that add
value to the important endeavor of enhancing stability and security
on the continent of Africa and its island nations.
• Is a trusted and reliable security partner with the nations and
security organizations of Africa.
• Is a listening and learning organization.
• Directs, integrates, and employs credible and relevant military
capability in peace and in response to crisis.
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Hope!
United States Africa Command
Building Strong Relationships
Openness and
Transparency
Responsiveness
Innovation
Listening and Learning
Mutual Trust, Mutual Confidence,
Mutual Respect, Mutual Competence
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United States Africa Command
Headquarters Organization
Commander
USAFRICOM
Special Staff
Directorate
for
Resources
Deputy to the
Commander
Civ-Mil
Activities
Directorate
for
Intelligence &
Knowledge
Development
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Directorate
for Strategy,
Plans &
Programs
CSM
Deputy to the
Commander
Military Ops
Chief of Staff
Office of
Shared
Services
Directorate
for
Operations &
Logistics
Directorate
for C4
Systems
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Directorate
for Outreach
United States Africa Command
Mission Transfer Process
1 Oct 2008
1 Oct 2007
Strategy, Plans,
and Policy
Theater Security Cooperation
Plans and Activities
Contingency
Planning
Crisis Response
Humanitarian Assistance/
Disaster Relief
On-Going Operations,
Training, Exercises
TSCTP and OEF-TS
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United States Africa Command
Africa’s Size
Before transferring
missions we must
understand
Africa’s Size
Argentina
China
Africa:
11,608,000 sq mi
China:
3,704,427 sq mi
US:
3,044,503 sq mi
Western Europe:
1,414,807 sq mi
Argentina:
1,077,924 sq mi
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United
States
Western
Europe
United States Africa Command
African Standby Force
AU HQ Addis Ababa
FOMAC
SADCBRIG
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United States Africa Command
Main African Regional &
Sub-Regional Economic Groups
SUB-Regional Organizations
AU
African Union
AMU
Arab Maghreb Union
AL
Arab League
CBI
Cross Border Initiatives
CEMAC Economic & Monetary Community of Central Africa
CILSS
Permanent Interstate Committee on Drought Control in the Sahel
COMESA Common Market for East and Southern Africa
EAC
East Africa Community
AMU
ECCAS Economic Community of Central African States Algeria*
ECOWAS Economic Community of West African States
Libya*
IGAD
Inter Governmental Authority for
Morocco* (HQ)
Development
Mauritania*
Tunisia*
IOC
Indian Ocean Community
MRU
Manu River Union
SACU
Southern Africa Customs Union
SADC
Southern Africa Development Community
WAEMU West African Economic and Monetary Union
ECOWAS
Benin
Cape Verde
Gambia
Guinea
Liberia
Niger
Senegal
Togo
Burkina Faso
Cote d’Ivoire
Ghana
Guinea-Bissau
Mali
Nigeria (HQ)
Sierra Leone
Mauritania
(Withdrew 2002)
SADC
ECCAS (CEEAC)
Angola*
Gabon (HQ)
Lesotho
Burundi*
Malawi
Cameroon
Mozambique
Central
African Republic
Swaziland
Chad
Tanzania*
Democratic Republic of the Congo*
Zambia
Republic of the Congo
Zimbabwe
Equatorial Guinea
Namibia
Rwanda*
South Africa
Sao Tome & Principe
Mauritius
Angola**
Democratic Republic of the Congo*
Madagascar
Seychelles
Botswana (HQ)
IGAD
Djibouti (HQ)
Ethiopia
Kenya*
Somalia
Sudan
Eritrea
Uganda*
Eritrea (Withdrew in 2007)
EAC
Kenya*
Uganda*
Tanzania* (HQ)
Burundi*
Rwanda*
Inherited Presence
Offices for Military Assistance and
Security
• EUCOM – Offices of Defense
Cooperation (ODC)
• CENTCOM – US Liaison Offices
(USLO)
• AFRICOM – will expand mission to
Offices of Security Cooperation (OSC)
Current EUCOM (9):
Algeria
Botswana
Ghana
Liberia
Morocco
Nigeria
Senegal
S. Africa
Tunisia
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CJTF HOA
Liaison Officers (LNOs)
TSCTP Liaison Officers
Current CENTCOM (4):
Djibouti
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Kenya
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United States Africa Command
CJTF-HOA MILITARY SUPPORT
Counter Terrorism
Coastal Security
Civil Affairs
Water & MED /
VETCAPs
Counter Terrorism
Coastal Security
Civil Affairs
Wells, Schools &
MED / VETCAPs
AMIS/UNAMID
Counter Terrorism
AMISOM Support
Civil Affairs
MED / VETCAPs
ERITREA
YEMEN
SUDAN
DJIBOUTI
ETHIOPIA
Civil Affairs
MED / VETCAPs
Counter Terrorism
Commando
Civil Affairs
Schools & MED /
VETCAPs
SOMALIA
Civil Affairs
Schools
UGANDA
KENYA
LEGEND
SEYCHELLES
Mil to Mil
TANZANIA
Civil Affairs
HCA Projects
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COMOROS
Adv Infantry Trng
Maritime Ops &
EOD
Civil Affairs
Wells & MED /
VETCAPs
United States Africa Command
Capacity Building Programs
• Security programs
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• Tools / Activities
Peacekeeping
Security Sector Reform
Maritime and Air Security
Counter Terrorism
Military Professionalization
• Provide Support to USG
(non- DOD) Programs
– Disease Prevention
– Education
– Economic Security
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– Exercises
– Foreign Military Financing
(FMF)
– International Military
Education and Training
– Military to Military Programs
– Medical Programs
– Humanitarian Assistance
Programs
– Construction projects
– Environmental Programs
– State Partnership Program
United States Africa Command
Peacekeeping
• Africa Contingency
Operations Training and
Assistance (ACOTA) program
• The US has been training
African peacekeepers through
ACOTA (or ACRI) since 1997
• Enhances existing African peace
keeping capabilities
• Focuses on infantry skills,
humanitarian operations, human
rights, and rules of engagement
in peacekeeping scenarios
• Trains approximately 20
battalions a year
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United States Africa Command
Liberia Security Sector Reform
• $209M over four years to create a new Liberian army by 2008
• ~ 2000 soldiers to be trained
• Brigade HQ, 2 infantry battalions, MP company, band
• Contractor-provided training, EUCOM-provided mentors
• Provides all training, equipment, and infrastructure construction
• EUCOM commitment: 3 years
• UN Mission in Liberia (since Sep 03)
• Mission: To provide security
for country of Liberia
• $714.9M for UN FY06
• ~ 17,000 total personnel
• 90 fatalities
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United States Africa Command
Maritime Security
• Goals:
• Improved maritime domain awareness
• Enhanced African regional maritime security
and regional cooperation
• Reduced piracy and “freedom of action” of
traffickers and terrorists
• Illegal fishing is countered
• Enhanced sovereignty and security
• EUCOM actions:
• Ship visits and maritime training
• Provision of equipment
• Boats, Coastal Radars, and Automated
Identification Systems (AIS)
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United States Africa Command
Africa Partnership Station (APS)
• Chief of Staff – CDR Nigel May, UK
• Themes
– Maritime Security and Safety are vital to
regional prosperity
– US and partners are committed to
enabling African solutions
– Building trust through transparency and
collaboration
Ghana
Cameroon
Gabon
Sao Tome & Principe
Angola
• Recent Developments
– Coalition support expanding
• UK, FR, GE, Ghana, Cameroon
• PO, IT, SP, Morocco
– NGO participation growing
• Project Hope (Liberia, Ghana)
• Wildlife Conservation Society (Gabon)
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Coalition and NGO support
expands
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Africa Partnership Station (APS)
• Recent events (Oct ’07)
– Multi-national APS staff forms
– APS roll out - Washington, DC
• First APS TSC event (Nov ’07)
– 19 Nov – 12 teams to Accra, Ghana
USS FORT McHENRY (LSD 43)
Oct 07- May 08
• Mil-Mil interaction, USAID seminar on
fisheries, and ACSS sponsored workshop
– Deploy SeaBees for HCA projects
• Medical clinic for future turnover to Project
Hope (medical NGO)
HSV-2 SWIFT
Jan 08 – Jun 08
• Next steps
– Focus on APS events in Ghana, Cameroon,
Gabon, STP, and Angola
AFRICOM delivers engagement
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Expeditionary Partnership Teams
United States Africa Command
Air Security
• EUCOM, through USAFE,
supports USG “Safe Skies for
Africa” program
Broad expanses of
“ungoverned airspace”
• Goal is to improve radar
coverage and air traffic
control over Africa
• Presently, radar coverage is
limited
• Costs of “ungoverned” airspace
• Potential for trafficking
• Poor air safety
• Reduction in economic potential
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United States Africa Command
Counter-Terrorism
• OEF-Trans-Sahara is EUCOM / AFRICOM’s
effort to:
• Build regional capacity
• Promote interoperability
• Strengthen Inter-regional cooperation in
the trans-Sahara region
• Trans-Sahara Counter Terrorism Partnership
(TSCTP) is the US Department of State
program in these same nations
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United States Africa Command
Partnership Development
• Goal: To build on regional
relationships with African Union
and sub-regional organizations
• AFRICOM support regional
cooperation and coalition
development through
conferences and workshops
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United States Africa Command
US—African Exercises
• Disaster Preparedness
• NATURAL FIRE
• GOLDEN SPEAR
• Command and Control
• AFRICA ENDEAVOR
• Capacity Building
• FLINTLOCK
• SHARED ACCORD
• Medical Training
• MEDFLAG
• Naval Forces
• West African and SWIO Training Cruises
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United States Africa Command
State’s FY08 FMF Request
Foreign Military
Financing (FMF)
•Funding of
foreign
militaries in
order to help
countries meet
defense needs
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United States Africa Command
State’s FY08 IMET Request
International
Military Education
and Training
(IMET)
• Provides military
education, training,
and professional
development of
African military
personnel
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United States Africa Command
US-African Military Engagement
•Security cooperation is just one part of US
collaboration with Africa…
•US spends $9B per year in Africa on:
– Health
– Development
- Trade promotion
- Good governance
•DOD spends $250M annually on:
– Peacekeeping training
– Logistics and airlift support to PKO
– Border/coastal security capacity building
– Joint Training Exercises
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United States Africa Command
Medical and Humanitarian Assistance
• HIV/AIDS prevention
• Malaria Prevention Program
• Humanitarian Mine Action Program
• Medical facility, clinic, orphanage,
and school construction
• Excess US property is provided to African clinics, hospitals, and schools
• Synchronization of medical and dental outreach to support
humanitarian assistance objectives
• Other Humanitarian Assistance (HA) projects
• School improvements
• Well drilling
• Infrastructure development projects
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United States Africa Command
Africa Clearing House
• Africa Clearing House – a forum for exchange of information and
to coordinate activities and programs on the African continent by
external donors
• Participants
• France, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Italy,
Luxembourg, Netherlands, United Kingdom, EU, NATO, UN,
and US
• Brazil, India, Portugal, Spain have also been invited
• Meetings held annually
• Open to all interested nations with engagement in Africa
• Last meeting hosted by Germany in Mar 07
• Next meeting TBD in 2008 (to be hosted by Japan?)
• Inclusion of NGOs possible in future
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United States Africa Command
State Partnership Program
Current State Partnerships
Wyoming
Utah
North
Dakota
Tunisia
(2004)
Morocco
(2003)
Ghana
(2004)
New York
South Africa
California
Nigeria
Vermont
Senegal
The State Partnership Program (SPP)
partners a US state’s National Guard
with an African partner for mil-to-mil,
civ-to-mil, and civ-to-civ training,
exercise, and relationship building
(2003)
(2006)
(In process – April 2007)
North
Carolina
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Botswana
(In process – April 2007)
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United States Africa Command
Command Challenges
• Mission transfer process
– 3 current commands
– CJTF-HOA: budget, staff, continent-wide tasking
• Full capacity of command personnel
– US military
– US interagency staffing
– Foreign military liaison officers (LNOs)
• Strategic plan for working with NGOs
• Maturation of Component Commands
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United States Africa Command
Command Challenges
• Coordination of continent-wide activities
– Africa Clearing House
– US governmental activities
– European partner activities
• Strategic Communications
– US government
– African Union and regional economic
communities
– Global partners
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United States Africa Command
Partnership
Security
Stability
UNITED STATES
AFRICA COMMAND
The overall classification of this presentation is UNCLASSIFIED