Africom officials denied a list of its facilities citing operational security.

Evidence

Since then, Africom has downsized some of its planned diplomatic and humanitarian roles. With the command headquarters still in Germany, Africom representatives have insisted to me and others that Camp Lemonnier is the only U.S. base on the continent. They say any other facility is “temporary.” An Africom representative declined to provide a list of facilities occupied by U.S. forces, citing “operational security and force protection reasons” and “the request of our host nation partners.” — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 993

Categorization

• QUESTION: Is the ‘host nation partners’ request real, or used as cover to hide politically unpopular basing? The contradiction between declared one-base footprint and evidence of rapid expansion is worth pursuing.