america producer joseph ricci takes a closer look on october forty four u.s. troops were ambushed and killed by isis militants in the african nation of nigeria the attack has raised uproar on capitol hill but the over arching question is what are we doing in here the circumstances that happen in ny show what is the scope of our involvement there do we need an authorization of the use of military force but the u.s. has troop presence throughout the african continent american soldiers and bases are currently in thirteen subsaharan countries under u.s. africa command the french also have a significant presence in africa particularly in the country's former colonies. the map of africa is once again starting to resemble the colonial situation in the nineteenth century but what role are foreign troops playing in africa you know game of the stated goal is fighting terrorism i think the real goal truthfully is you know geopolitical expansion of the u.s. which seems to be a goal in another itself to essentially rule the world we have you know it's about a thousand mili

the president responded on twitter telling tillerson not to waste his time are to correspondent joseph ricci reports that confusion within the administration may be a way to mask the real target of u.s. policy towards north korea. the united states has almost eight hundred military bases spread across seventy countries but one region in particularly has the eye of military planners in washington no not the middle east where the u.s. military footprint is everywhere i'm talking about the pacific at the end of the cold war neo cons in the pentagon drop a new global strategy the pivot to the pacific pivot has also been called the plan to contain china the fact of the matter is that through the ninety's there was this feeble or debate almost in policy circles in washington d.c. that the next great competitor was china and during the clinton administration there was a very tense argument where the china as a strategic competitor or china was a strategic partner most felt that it was some form of strategic competitor in any case at that point of time goes a democratic administration in office and