Security cooperation as remote warfare:The US in the Horn of Africa

In: Biegon , R & Watts , T 2021 , Security cooperation as remote warfare : The US in the Horn of Africa . in A McKay , A Watson & M Karlshøj-Pedersen (eds) , Remote warfare : Interdisciplinary perspectives . E-International Relations , pp. 152-172 .

Abstract

This chapter introduces security cooperation as a tool of remote warfare, both in a general sense and in the specific case of US counterterrorism operations in the Horn of Africa. We argue that there is a twin security/strategic logic to its use: it functions to build the capacity of foreign security forces to deny terrorist organisations safe havens within their own borders or region; and to help secure American access to bases, airspace and foreign security personnel, 'thicken' political partnerships with overseas governments and to create new patterns of cooperation, influence and leverage.