What Happened
New Office To Drive Security Returns Through Economic Leverage
U.S. Africa Command has established a new Defense Economics Office to explore modern policy reforms and drive outsized security returns through economic leverage. The office will work with the Commerce Department and other federal entities to identify infrastructure and investment decisions that may deliver strategic security returns in Africa. According to Africom commander Gen. Dagvin Anderson, the office will focus on disrupting adversaries’ revenue streams and generating concrete security impacts, as reported by DefenseScoop.