Tom got an email asking for thoughts/reactions/explanations on the article New AFRICOM staff to be mainly situated outside Africa

Tom writes:

As expected. No desire to favor any one of the five regions, as the CJTF-HOA gets franchised to the other four. Better to keep it out of Africa, and best--as I argue--to put it in Northern VA to highlight and enable it's "3D" approach of synergistically blending defense, diplomacy and development.