Before September 11th, 2001, American military strategy in Africa was little more than a cursory investment to buffer its interests against those of the Soviet Union, then Russia, China, and the Middle East governments. Now the Pentagon is taking a new approach to the African continent, one that may be especially welcome.
Part of the new strategy is to create a new regional headquarters called “Africa Command” responsible for coordinating American military projects on that continent.
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The death of a Green Beret in Iraq, electrocuted while showering this past January, finally attracted the attention of the Pentagon and US lawmakers to the issue of shoddy and dangerous electrical work on US bases in Iraq. At one building complex, soldiers have complained of electrical shocks in their living quarters daily.
For millions of dollars, private contractors have upgraded Iraqi buildings, including the electrical systems, that house American troops. 
Col. Morris D. Davis, the US military's former chief prosecutor at Guantanamo Bay, 
