Pentagon: U.S. Counterterrorism Efforts Have Failed Africans

The Intercept has been chronicling the U.S. military’s futile counterterrorism efforts on the African continent for the last decade . We have reported on increases in the number and reach of terror groups, rising militant attacks , spikes in fatalities , destabilizing blowback from U.S. operations , humanitarian disasters , failed secret wars , coups by U.S. trainees , human rights abuses by allies , massacres and executions by partner forces , civilians killed in drone strikes , and a litany of other fiascos and failures .

A new Pentagon report offers the grimmest assessment yet of the results of the last 10 years of U.S. military efforts on the continent. It corroborates years of reporting on catastrophes that U.S. Africa Comma