Senior military planners with U.S. Africa Command's special operations directorate are mulling options for a new regional strategy that would focus security engagement operations on key countries in five zones across the continent, a senior command official tells Inside the Pentagon. "That's occupying a lot of our time as a theater-strategic headquarters -- mapping out regional strategies, basically replicating the five African union regions," U.S. Special Operations Command-Africa (SOCAFRICA) commander Brig. Gen. Patrick Higgins said of the plan. "We are...
