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؟Why Is the US Military So Interested in Chad

Checkered History With Chad Following 9/11, the United States launched a counterterrorism program, known as the Pan-Sahel Initiative, to bolster the
militaries of Mali, Niger, Mauritania and Chad. Three years later, in 2005, the program expanded to include Nigeria, Senegal, Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia and was renamed the Trans-Sahara Counterterrorism Partnership (TSCTP). The idea was to turn a huge swath of Africa into a terror-resistant bulwark of stability. Twelve years and hundreds of millions of dollars later, the region is anything but stable, which means that it fits perfectly, like a missing puzzle piece, with the rest of the under-the-radar US “pivot” to that continent

Following 9/11, the United States launched a counterterrorism program, known as the Pan-Sahel Initiative, to bolster the militaries of Mali, Niger, Mauritania and Chad. Three years later, in 2005, the program expanded to include Nigeria, Senegal, Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia and was renamed the Trans-Sahara Counterterrorism Partnership (TSCTP). The idea was to turn a huge swath of Africa into a terror-resistant bulwark of stability. Twelve years and hundreds of millions of dollars later, the region is anything but stable, which means that it fits perfectly, like a missing puzzle piece, with the rest of the under-the-radar US “pivot” to that continent.

Coups by the US-backed militaries of Mauritania in 2005 and again in 2008, Niger in 2010 and Mali in 2012, as well as a 2011 revolution that overthrew Tunisia’s US-backed government (after the US-supported army stood aside); the establishment of Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb in 2006; and the rise of Boko Haram from an obscure radical sect to a raging insurgent movement in northern Nigeria are only some of the most notable recent failures in TSCTP nations. Chad came close to making the list, too, but attempted military coups in 2006 and 2013 were thwarted, and in 2008, the government, which had itself come to power in a 1990 coup, managed to hold off against a rebel assault on the capital.