Cooperative security location

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A Cooperative Security Location ( CSL ) is, in US parlance, the smallest level of a military base outside the motherland . These are bases in which usually no or only a few US soldiers are stationed. Rather, the host country or private companies on behalf of the US military are responsible for ongoing operations. They are only used by US troops for operations in the immediate vicinity, and then mostly in cooperation with units in the host country. They can also serve as a base for military advisers to train local troops. In addition, CSL contain stored military equipment and can be expanded into Forward Operating Sites , the next higher level, with little effort . The strategic importance of the joint security facilities for the Pentagon lies in the possibility of establishing military capacity to act in its own sphere of interest. The CSLs go back to a concept that US President George W. Bush presented in August 2004 for the stationing of the armed forces of the United States . It provides for US troops to be withdrawn by 2014, particularly from Western Europe, and to be relocated to the USA and, to a lesser extent, to other countries. Further elements of this new stationing concept are the two superordinate levels Forward Operating Site (FOS) and Main Operating Base (MOB).

CSL are primarily created in Africa to be used in the war on terror and to protect the US oil industry. Such facilities can be found at the civilian airport of Libreville in Gabon , at the military airport of Dakar in Senegal and at Entebbe Airport in Uganda . In South America, the Pentagon secured new bases in 2000 after the Torrijos-Carter agreements , which were no longer called bases, but CSL, in El Salvador, Honduras, Guantánamo, Puerto Rico, Peru, Costa Rica, Ecuador and on two islands Dutch administration. In Puerto Rico, the local CSL was closed in 2003 after protests by residents. In 2009, the Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa did not extend the expiring concession regarding the base.

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  1. ^ Military Construction Program, May 2009
  2. ↑ Le Monde diplomatique: Advance Action Points (from February 12, 2010)