Around one hundred American Special Forces troops are sitting in their barracks and preparing to start their tour of duty. Sounds like a typical day in the life of a soldier whose country has been extensively engaged in overseas conflicts for the past ten years. The only exception here is that the soldiers are getting ready to deploy to a region that has nothing to do with Iraq or Afghanistan, the two theaters of war that the U.S. military and its allies have grown the most accustomed too. Rather, the area assigned to this small contingent is smack in the middle of the African continent, spread across four countries in the Sub-Sahara—Uganda, South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the Central African Republic.
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