The military's new global "footprint" is likely to encompass small deployments to Africa as the United States steps up diplomacy efforts with nations there to avoid being "suddenly surprised" by terrorist training camps like those that popped up in Afghanistan, U.S. European Command chief Gen. James Jones said last week. EUCOM has been spearheading the Defense Department's analysis for a new basing plan that will likely lighten large concentrations of troops in western Europe and rotate smaller numbers of them...
