10th Mountain getting Africa.

If you didn't think that Africa is the next hot spot then check this out.  AFRICOM has picked a Brigade from the 10th Mountain to go to Africa.  Via Military.com

A U.S.-based unit has been selected as the Army's first "regionally aligned" brigade, and by next year its soldiers could begin conducting operations in Africa.
It is the first step in an effort to develop expert units to rotate through a region.
U.S. Africa Command will be the first to test the new rotational model, intended to give commanders a more reliable supply of soldiers available for short, training-focused missions.
Army chief of staff Gen. Raymond Odierno on Wednesday said that a brigade from the 10th Mountain Division has been picked to lead the effort in Africa.
Plans also call for brigades to eventually be aligned with Southern, Central and Pacific Commands, Odierno said. The number of brigades aligned with a given region will depend on the needs of the respective combatant commands.
"So as they go through a training process, then they become available for a period a time, nine to 12 months," Odierno said. "And then they can use those forces to meet whatever requirements they might have. It might be rotational forces. It could be building partner capacity. It could be providing security assistance. It could be doing exercises."
"The regionally aligned forces concept will be especially important in the Asia-Pacific region as we move forward -- home to seven of the 10 largest armies," Odierno said.
Similar rotational concepts also are being looked at in Europe, where the Army will reduce from four forward-stationed brigades to two, Odierno said.
Army planners have been working on the regional brigade concept for some time.
"We think it'll be more efficient. We think it will lead to better outcomes," Col. Andrew Dennis, the Army's chief of security cooperation policy and concepts, said in an interview earlier this year.
Dennis said the intent of the regional alignment concept is to send small platoon- or battalion-size elements to Africa, not a whole brigade at once.

The Army is about to fuck itself with this concept.

A platoon or separate Infantry Battalion is too light, too dependent to send alone.  The Marines establish Air-Ground Task Groups with attached Logistical Units to perform these type missions.

SOCOM does its own thing but that's SOCOM.  They have an entirely different logistics network to fall back on.

You can't play the game the Special Ops does if you don't have the support.  Prediction.

This won't work.