US Troop Deployments, 1950-2005
Very interesting visualization of US troop deployments to different regions over the past five decades. Of particular interest are the shifting strategic priorities that one can see reflected in the data. Take a look at Africa, for example. One can see the deprioritization of the continent from the 1970s through the 1990s (with the brief Somalian expedition), and then the modest deployments to Djibouti in an attempt to address the attempts of global salafi militants to use this region as strategic base.
