The Conquest of Africa: NATO Wages War On Third Continent by Rick Rozoff  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=latestNews

NATO's Lisbon summit declaration of last November highlighted an expanding role for the bloc in Africa, including supporting the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), for which it has airlifted thousands of Ugandan troops for combat in the nation's capital, the Operation Ocean Shield naval operation off the Horn of Africa and the operationalization of the African Standby Force, modeled after the NATO Response Force.In twelve years the U.S. has used NATO for the war against Yugoslavia - the first unprovoked attack against a sovereign European nation since World War Two - a nearly decade-long air and ground war in Asia, and now the opening stages of a war in Africa.

None of those wars were launched either to defend a member of NATO or in the so-called Euro-Atlantic area the military bloc arrogates to itself the right to protect.21st century NATO is a global military strike force to be employed wherever its leading member states, the U.S. in the first case, choose to use it. Other nations in Africa, the Middle East, Asia, the Caucasus and even what is left of unsubjugated Europe had best take note of the fact.