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On February 6, 2007, President George W. Bush formally announced his decision to create a Unified Combatant Command for Africa—U.S. Africa Command, or AFRICOM. The nascent command’s spokesmen tout AFRICOM as an important leap in interagency coordination, bridging the divide between the Department of Defense (DoD) and other U.S. Government agencies. DoD also praises AFRICOM as a groundbreaking attempt at conflict prevention, achieved through security cooperation, civil-military initiatives, and humanitarian projects. AFRICOM, it is hoped, will pioneer a new model of U.S. military engagement abroad—mindful of the complicated, interconnected relationships among security, governance, and development.1 AFRICOM will not be fashioned entirely from

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