ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book demonstrates that United States (US) affective labour works in tandem with its infrastructural labour in the African space. It demonstrates how the US system of accumulation or US government–business–media is still nominally driven by the nexus between its military and industry, which, in its outwards form, has adopted the organizing principle of the US Global Command Structure. The book then details the US government’s machinery that facilitated United States Africa Command (AFRICOM) expansion. It also argues that the Djibouti military base has progressed through four general phases since the end of the Cold War, that is, a trial phase; the gradual establishment of a soft presence; the ongoing building of a permanent military base; and the setting up of the de facto forward operating military hub of AFRICOM, operational since 2008.
