"The plan is to stay in these strategic countries until the African governments develop their most vulnerable areas, in the hopes that insurgents cannot enter and exploit lawlessness—a process that will take many years."

- New Yorker article

 

"Now that there are boots on the ground, it is difficult to foresee an end to the U.S. presence any time soon. So, the U.S. is now visibly involved militarily in another African theater."

- Council on Foreign Relations blog (mentioned)

 

"...the U.S. is building a $100 million base for surveillance drones in Agadez, in the central part of the country, to help in those efforts—all of which goes to show the U.S. presence in the region is entrenched and set to continue."

- Atlantic article