Analysis - Four-star Marine General Michael Langley, the new commander of the U.S. Africa Command (Africom), revealed two astounding secrets about U.S. military operations in Africa on 16 March 2023, when he appeared at the Senate Armed Services Committee annual hearing on the Africom budget request.
U.S. Marine Corps General Michael Langley, commander, U.S. Africa Command, delivering the 2023 U.S. Africa Command posture statement before the Senate Armed Services Committee March 16.Four-star Marine General Michael Langley, the new commander of the U.S. Africa Command , revealed two astounding secrets about U.S. military operations in Africa on 16 March 2023, when he appeared at the Senate Armed Services Committee annual hearing on the Africom budget request.
General Langley also publicly and directly contradicted the repeated assertions by Secretary of State Antony Blinken and many other American officials that Washington did not want to make African countries choose between the United States and its Sino-Russian rivals. Washington's actual view, he explained, was that"they make choices, and they make the wrong choices in siding with—going with either PRC or Russia for especially lethal aid.
So African governments will be judged by the company they keep—the United States or Russia and China—and will be treated accordingly. Making the"wrong choices" or the"wrong decisions" will have consequences.Daniel Volman is the Director of the African Security Research Project in Washington, DC, and a specialist on U.S. military policy toward Africa and African security issues.
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