Libya: NATO's African War The Role of US Africa Command (AFRICOM) http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=23813

Last year NATO airlifted thousands of Ugandan troops to and from Somalia for the war in that country (its civilian counterpart, the European Union, is training Somali government troops in Uganda) and is currently conducting a naval operation off the Horn of Africa, Ocean Shield, but the ongoing attack on Libya is the Atlantic Alliance's first direct war in Africa.It is also the first war for the newest Pentagon overseas military command, U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM). AFRICOM spokesman Lieutenant Commander James Stockman boasted that American and British missiles hit at least 20 of 22 intended targets in Libya on March 19, and newly appointed AFRICOM chief General Carter Ham pledged to "degrade the Qadhafi regime’s capability" under his command's Joint Task Force Odyssey Dawn the same day.