Après les splendides “military-age male” et “signature strike”, #Obama termine son mandat en apothéose avec le “#collective_self-defense”
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/27/us/politics/obama-expands-war-with-al-qaeda-to-include-shabab-in-somalia.html
Obama Is Expanding Trump’s War-Making Powers on His Way Out the Door
▻http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/11/28/obama-is-expanding-trumps-war-making-powers-on-his-way-out-the-door
Under this broad concept of “collective self-defense,” it seems that U.S. military close air support airstrikes may be called upon anywhere U.S.-partner forces are threatened, whether or not that threat extends to American personnel on the ground. To give some sense of what that could potentially entail, in 2015, a spokesman from the command acknowledged that SOCOM forces had deployed to 147 countries. Undoubtedly, these deployments primarily consist of short-term military-to-military engagements, like training and education programs, with few direct-action operations. However, the Obama administration’s claim that certain foreign partner forces can be incorporated into the U.S. military’s inherent right to self-defense could open up the scope and intensity of airstrikes even further.