{"id":5810,"date":"2023-10-18T04:52:16","date_gmt":"2023-10-18T04:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/?p=5810"},"modified":"2023-10-18T04:52:16","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T04:52:16","slug":"west-africa-collapse-of-u-s-counterterrorism-strategy-in-the-sahel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/2023\/10\/18\/west-africa-collapse-of-u-s-counterterrorism-strategy-in-the-sahel\/","title":{"rendered":"West Africa: Collapse of U.S. Counterterrorism Strategy in the Sahel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202310150132.html\">https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202310150132.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Summary: The Biden administration has now declared the coup in Niger as a coup officially. They had held off on declaring it a coup, because doing so would activate US laws requiring the cut off of all security cooperation, development assistance, and economic support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The US administration had hoped they could make a deal with the junta to keep the 1,100 US troops, stationed at two bases in Niger and continue running counterterrorism operations throughout the Sahel using drones. They finally concluded that it would not be possible to reach an agreement with the junta and on October 10th, 2023, the Biden administration declared officially that a coup had taken place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is highly likely that the Niger junta will respond to this by ending US counterterrorism operations launched from its territory and will expel US troops, just as it has expelled French troops. There have been many US counter terrorism efforts launched from Niger. This likely marks the end of the use of Niger as a center for this to the US.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Analysis: The US acknowledgment of the Niger coup is a step towards acknowledgment. The US is not, in policy and attitude, friendly to the military coup, but they wanted to keep troops functioning there. It changes how the United States can interact with Niger, and can change American attitudes towards the French\u2019s relations with Niger. It also changes the course of US military presence and counter-terrorrisom efforts, of which Niger was a center. The US was using drones for surveillance and counter-terrorrism, based out of the Sahel. They are pursuing other relations, but nothing is definite. It is highly likely that American military presence in Sub-Saharan Africa, as well as French, and their efforts, will decease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Connection to Class: This concept can be looked at with multiple levels of analysis. On a global level, it shows the differences between how the US acted in the past, when the US was a much more unipolar system, versus now with many emerging and emergent other global powers. On an interstate level, it shows the changing tides in Africa. On a state level, it shows the differences in US policies and levels of involvement globally now versus, say, in the Cold War era. Especially around issues of democracy, of military toppling freely elected officials, like in Niger. It also showcases differences in the US between now and the period after 9\/11, the war on terrorism. The US is also pulling back much more there, and in general. On an individual level? Things would not be the same with different actors in the Niger junta and the US government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202310150132.html Summary: The Biden administration has now declared the coup in Niger as a coup officially. They had held off on declaring it a coup, because doing so would activate US laws requiring the cut off of all security cooperation, development assistance, and economic support. The US administration had hoped they could make a deal with the junta to keep&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/2023\/10\/18\/west-africa-collapse-of-u-s-counterterrorism-strategy-in-the-sahel\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":264,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/264"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5818,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5810\/revisions\/5818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}