{"id":9754,"date":"2018-11-17T01:17:30","date_gmt":"2018-11-17T01:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/us-to-cut-africom-troops-amid-focus-on-russia-and-china\/"},"modified":"2018-11-17T21:04:42","modified_gmt":"2018-11-17T21:04:42","slug":"us-plans-to-cut-military-support-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/us-plans-to-cut-military-support-in-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"US Plans to Cut Military Support In Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump is continuing to focus resources on implementing his National Defense Strategy, which involves more muscle flexing in his attempts to compete with Russia &amp; China who seem to be hell-bent on staring another\u00a0arms escalation. With the Marcon championed\u00a0European Intervention Initiative also in the news it seems that the efforts to stem terrorism is taking a back seat.<\/p>\n<p>The US Department of Defense said that 700 counter-terrorism troops will be removed over the next few years, a significant\u00a0figure considering only 7,200 US soldiers are currently based in African countries. The removals could affect both Cameroon &amp; Mali according to a <span style=\"color: #003366;\"><a style=\"color: #003366;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-africa-military\/pentagon-to-cut-troops-in-africa-as-focus-shifts-to-china-russia-idUSKCN1NK2N5\">Reuters report<\/a><\/span>. Niger may also be affected in the light of the October\u00a02017 attack which left 4 US troops dead. With rising tensions in the Middle East and terrorist groups aplenty in Africa, this military saber-rattling may just make the world a more dangerous place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump is continuing to focus resources on implementing his National Defense Strategy, which involves more muscle flexing in his attempts to compete with Russia &amp; China who seem to be hell-bent on staring another\u00a0arms escalation. With the Marcon championed\u00a0European Intervention Initiative also in the news it seems that the efforts to stem&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[201],"class_list":["post-9754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-worldwide-news","tag-africa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9754"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9771,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9754\/revisions\/9771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}