Warning to Africa: The New US Imperial Grand Strategy

[There is] a New Great Game afoot ...the "New Scramble for Africa" on the part of the great powers. ...The U.S. military's European Command now devotes 70 percent of its time to African affairs, up from almost nothing as recently as 2003....At present the world is experiencing a new age of imperialism marked by a U.S. grand strategy of global domination. One indication of how things have changed is that the U.S. military is now truly global in its operations with permanent bases on every continent, including Africa, where a new scramble for control is taking place focused on oil. ... A political unit that has overwhelming superiority in military power, and uses that power to influence the internal behavior of other states, is called an empire....the United States does not seek to control territory or govern the overseas citizens of the empire, we are an indirect empire, to be sure, but an empire nonetheless.... Read More