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2018-09-13 Government

Special operations boom years may be coming to a close

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Posted by Besoeker 2018-09-13 07:30|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 Now, Congress and the Pentagon are trying to bring more oversight to special operations forces while reorienting them away from combating militants and toward fighting more traditional nation-states.

Congress sees it for what it has become, ie, a separately funded (separate from 'big Army') Klingon action arm.

Posted by Besoeker 2018-09-13 07:38|| 2018-09-13 07:38|| Front Page Top

#2 There are distinct philosophical questions:
"Do we really want to have a clandestine paramilitary force as a large fraction of our total military?
"Do we have that pressing a need for a 'Standing COIN Army'?"
"What keeps them from mutating into a (corrupt) Praetorian Guard?"

Posted by magpie 2018-09-13 12:27|| 2018-09-13 12:27|| Front Page Top

#3 There are distinct philosophical questions

Funding allocation is different than having a ready group of hard and highly trained soldiers that can be deployed anywhere, on short notice.

"Congress and the Pentagon are trying to bring more oversight to special operations forces while reorienting them away from combating militants and toward fighting more traditional nation-states."

Frightening keywords here are militants vs. nation-states. This does NOT say 'prep BIG army for international conflict'. It says dull the tools of today to fight a unlikely conflict between nations.

Posted by Skidmark 2018-09-13 13:59|| 2018-09-13 13:59|| Front Page Top

#4 Typical ignorant politicians. Translate into “not corrupt enough for us to dip our beaks”.

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2018-09-13 21:45|| 2018-09-13 21:45|| Front Page Top

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