The following excerpts are from the website of the U.S. National Guard concerning Senegalese troops being trained in Louisiana. Senegal has recently participated in the U.S. Africa Command-led African Lion multinational military exercise in Morocco and in the U.S./Ukraine-hosted 32-nation Sea Breeze war games in the Black Sea. Also participating in both was Brazil. In fact Senegal and Brazil were the only nations involved in either exercise that are neither NATO members nor partners. Currently NATO has five partners in North Africa (Algeria, Egypt, Mauritania, Morocco and Tunisia) but no partners in sub-Saharan Africa. Colombia is a member of NATO’s Partners Across the Globe and is the only Latin American nation that is a NATO partner. The involvement of both Brazil and Senegal in war games outside their respective continents where they are the only non-NATO member/partner participants indicates they are being groomed for partnerships with the military bloc of 30 members and 40 partners.
Senegal soldiers observe JRTC training in Louisiana
FORT POLK, La. – Senegalese soldiers visited the Joint Readiness Training Center (JRTC) July 22 to observe training conducted by the Arkansas Army National Guard’s 39th Infantry Brigade Combat Team and its supporting elements during rotation 21-08.
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The Senegalese were able to see the spectrum of operations, from the initial planning to the execution of combat missions.
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“Next year, we are hoping to visit again and train at JRTC ourselves,” said [Lieutenant Colonel Ali] Mime, adding that he and the other Senegalese soldiers would continue observing and learning from the U.S. Army National Guardsmen training at JRTC for several more days before returning to Africa.
Mauritania is a NATO partner? Who pays for their army?
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Here’s some background information: Mauritania: NATO’s partner on Africa’s Atlantic
https://antibellum679354512.wordpress.com/2021/06/25/mauritania-natos-partner-on-africas-atlantic-coast/ coast
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NATO thinks sheer weight of numbers (or countries?) will help them for lack of qualitative depth in hardware and troops. Any war between NATO and Russia (and/or China) still wouldn’t be a war that lasts long. Russia doesn’t have to fight a war on multiple fronts against multiple countries, it has to fight one war and win it and that is with America. Cut the head off the snake and its all over, I can’t see the vast majority of Countries in NATO continuing to fight once the US is finished … maybe the idiotic Brits will fancy it for a couple of days but when same happens to them, the fanatics are gone and the vassals are leaderless. Suing for peace would be very swift thereafter I think. Of course we come to the point of whether, after conventional defeat, the Americans (the crazies on capitol hill and the all purpose swamp that is the alphabet soup agencies) will go nuclear to take down the enemy in a last gasp for survival. Status 6 makes this less likely when it is operational but we all know how detached from reality Washington has become …
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