ARTICLE: 'No big troop presence planned for U.S. Africa Command,' By John M. Doyle, Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, 08/02/2007, page 15

Whelan speaks the truth here. As I said on C-SPAN, "franchising" CJTF-HOA four times may get you a couple dozen small forts, but the total number will be less than 10k. On a continent almost 3x the continental U.S. and with more than twice the population, that ain't much.

Hell, we'll have more in Kurdistan after a while.