Although their presence over there is not a secret (since it was announced about 10 years ago and you can see some by simply pointing Google Earth on Djibouti International Airport, as done in this interesting OSGEOINT analysis) what’s still unclear is what eight U.S. F-15Es are currently doing in the Horn of Africa.
They are reportedly serving in support of Combined Joint Task Force – Horn of Africa, as an Expeditionary Squadron of the 380th Expeditionary Operations Group, based at Al Dhafra, in the United Arab Emirates, and responsible for the “war on terror” in the region, but what’s their actual mission remains a (sort-of) mystery.
Even if the American military presence across the world is usually very well advertised, the U.S. keep a low profile on the operations launched by the Air Force’s Strike Eagles from Eastern Africa.
The reason for such prudence maybe that, along with the Reaper drones, even the F-15Es are conducting air strikes in Yemen (and Somalia).
The Euro crisis and its global effects (not to mention the global effects from Wall Street's Mortgage-Backed Securities Fraud) should put an end to this idea of globalism as a path to prosperity. Those who push for globalism, whether Alexander the Great, Napoleon, Hitler, etc. all personally do very well as the leader4 of their (almost) global empires, but leave destruction and death in their wakes. In the present situation, the push for economic globalism punishes all the people of Earth for every crime and corruption in every financial center anywhere in the world. It is time to abandon this push for globalism and return to regionalism. National borders serve the same function as fireproof doors and watertight bulkheads; containing an accident to preserve the whole structure. It may look like a good idea to take down barriers, but without fire doors, an office fire destroys the entire building, without watertight bulkheads, a leak sinks the entire ship, and without national borders, a national financial crisis destroys the global economy.