Admiral Seeks Freer Hand in Deployment of Elite Forces
As the United States turns increasingly to Special Operations forces to confront developing "threats" scattered around the world, the nation’s top Special Operations officer, a member of the Navy Seals who oversaw the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, is seeking new authority to move his forces faster and outside of normal Pentagon deployment channels. - As the United States turns increasingly to Special Operations forces to confront developing "threats" scattered around the world, the nation’s top Special Operations officer, a member of the Navy Seals who oversaw the raid that [allegedly] killed Osama bin Laden, is seeking new authority to move his forces faster and outside of normal Pentagon deployment channels.
Bill Van Auken: US secret armies gear up for global war - The “tide of war is receding” is a phrase President Barack Obama has employed ad nauseam—once in his State of the Union address, twice in the course of remarks last month at the unveiling of the Pentagon's new military strategy document, once again during his speech at the United Nations, also in his announcement of troop withdrawals from Iraq and Afghanistan, and in a Veteran's Day address. The constant repetition of this hackneyed metaphor is aimed at obscuring the obvious—that US militarism has escalated dramatically under the Democratic president and its tide threatens to engulf the entire planet.