Thursday, September 10, 2020

AFRICOM: Move from Stuttgart to Another European City?

 The Washington Post published on 10 September 2020 a story titled "The Trump Administration Is Considering Moving U.S. Africa Command.  It Won't Be Cheap or Easy" by Dan Lamothe.  

According to the article, the Trump administration is looking at locations in Italy, Spain, Belgium, and the UK for relocating the Africa Command, which is currently co-located with the European Command in Stuttgart.  

While an argument can be made for relocating AFRICOM to an underutilized military base on the east coast of the United States for long-term cost reasons, the proposal to move it from one European city to another makes no sense whatsoever.