Talk:American military intervention in Cameroon

Is this article really necessary?

@Juno:I say it that way because from all of the information I have read up on this deployment, it's 300 troops being deployed to provide intelligence and surveillance for the Cameroonian and other countries in the task force, in their fight against Boko Haram. It doesn't seem they're deploying predator drones to start dropping missiles on boko haram positions. It's not much of an intervention really, the troops are only equipped for force protection, no advising, no training, no fighting. I just feel as if this article, title and all is misleading as it portrays the US as having independently intervened militarily in this situation when it's really just sending surveillance support to them. Does the U.S. deserve to be mentioned in the Boko Haram insurgency and shown in the infobox as supporting the Cameroonian's and the other countries, for sure, but not this whole article. - SantiLak (talk) 02:24, 24 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Is the article necessary? I would argue that the media coverage, both local and international, merits it. As a minor point: the Americans are advising and training locals on the equipment that they're transitioning. Juno (talk) 16:51, 31 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It still really isn't an intervention at all, this information would be far better suited with a merge into the Boko Haram insurgency article, it's pretty much unnecessary here, it's just not an intervention. - SantiLak (talk) 04:35, 1 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]