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Why has Acting Secretary of Defense Miller just announced that, for the first time ever, Special Operations civilian leadership will now report directly to the Secretary of Defense?
@BeschlossDC ^ | Nov 18 2020 | Michael Beschloss

Posted on 11/18/2020 6:26:36 PM PST by rintintin

Michael Beschloss @BeschlossDC Why has Acting Secretary of Defense Miller just announced that, for the first time ever, Special Operations civilian leadership will now report directly to the Secretary of Defense? 7:49 AM · Nov 18, 2020·TweetDeck

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To: dandiegirl

Yes they are!.....


21 posted on 11/18/2020 7:03:47 PM PST by Guenevere (No weapon formed against you shall prosper, and you will refute every tongue that accuses you(Isaiah)
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To: DEPcom

> Maybe the reason for the non-scalable fence around the White House too.

A non scalable fence seems imho to be intended for the civvie antifa types.

Asserting direct control over military special ops seems oriented towards thwarting rogue non-military black ops assassination squads.

(Alternatively, to be totally fair, it could theoretically be to augment imminent operations in some rogue country such as Iran or China, so who really knows.)


22 posted on 11/18/2020 7:07:51 PM PST by SteveH
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To: rintintin

One more step toward ‘martial law’ possibly, if deemed necessary to declare when the election is called for Trump, after massive cheating is so obvious , it can not be ignored.

This is something freedom lovers have hoped and prayed would never come to be here in the home of the free and the land of the brave, but the last 4 years have shown what despicable actors/deep state operators really believe freedom is, an idea.


23 posted on 11/18/2020 7:11:23 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!! Help beat the leftist media at their own game.)
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To: SteveH

Prayers in order. This sounds serious.


24 posted on 11/18/2020 7:17:41 PM PST by WVNan
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To: NormsRevenge

Good news show covering this tonight...

https://www.trunews.com/stream/kraken-the-whip-why-is-trump-suddenly-consolidating-special-ops


25 posted on 11/18/2020 7:22:44 PM PST by Golden Eagle (List of Cable News Alternatives ----> http://freerepublic.com/~goldeneagle/ <----)
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To: rintintin
This is my bet:

There is a significant amount of leadership in special operations that are civilian intelligence officers. One thing peculiar about SOCOM is they do both intelligence operations and something else that is similar.....but they call it something else that is not "intelligence." They have been doing this for decades for no other reason than to escape the crap-ton of intelligence oversight regulations.

So this is a policy oversight issue that starts with USD(P) and USD(I), the latter just got fired, along with his COS. With this move.....NONE of the operations reviewed and approved by USD(P) or USD(I) are going to go without higher oversight.

26 posted on 11/18/2020 7:23:17 PM PST by Salvavida (quicker)
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To: SteveH

IOW the White House needs a defensive force to repel an attack.

These guys might be called in proactively to be stationed wherever the president determines he needs to make a stand to repulse a rogue effort to unseat him, in particular, prior to official certification of a harris-biden victory (if it comes to that).

ok, if so, one question that could be raised is why not retreat to a more easily presumably defensible location such as andrews afb or camp david?

one supposes that the answer would be that the white house has a very high symbolic value to the US public. if trump leaves the white house for any reason, then the white house becomes an expendable target in terms of keeping formal control of the presidency. if there were a shortage of troops to repel an insurrection aimed at camp david and the white house, then it would force an operating decision made to abandon the white house in favor of camp david, at which time harris-biden insurgents could in theory overcome white house guards, occupy the white house, and claim the presidency by right of physical occupancy of the white house.

going a step further in this hypothetical scenario, it would not imho be totally inconceivable that a military insurgency would use a civilian (eg antifa) force as an offensive shield. this would be a significant PR victory for insurgents even if the invasion were repelled, due to a non-zero civilian casualty list and videos that could be replayed on the MSM without limit for days, weeks, or months (as needed as determined by the deep state, again in this hypothetical scenario).


27 posted on 11/18/2020 7:31:32 PM PST by SteveH
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To: dandiegirl

Trump leaves office Jan 20th, 2025.


28 posted on 11/18/2020 7:43:57 PM PST by delta7
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To: rintintin

SOCOM has a command HQ in FL, unifying special operators from all the branches. Does this bypass the command structure? I can’t see the general in charge being happy about that.


29 posted on 11/18/2020 7:45:32 PM PST by lurk ( )
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To: SteveH

Coup is coming if the Votes go to Trump—First shots of CW II? I don’t know—my worst fears seem to be coming true. Trump wins, Blue states leave the Union? Set up a new Nation. The People’s Socialist Republic of America. New York as the New Capital or Chicago. The First President of the PSRA, Obama.


30 posted on 11/18/2020 7:51:57 PM PST by Forward the Light Brigade ( ALWAYS GO FORWARD AND NEVER GO BACK.)
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To: rintintin

My first thought on this transfer of authority it is to clip the CIA of their private army. In other words, diminish CIA direct action capabilities.


31 posted on 11/18/2020 8:00:01 PM PST by Hootowl99
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To: SteveH

Marines can hold a beach head like nobody’s business. It’s part of what they do before breakfast.

About 2-5 minutes up river. Save SpecOps for taking out high level multinational targets who are popping corks on 1,000 Euro Champagne since 4 am on Nov 4th thinking they pulled it off.


32 posted on 11/18/2020 8:03:08 PM PST by epluribus_2 (He, had the best mom - ever.)
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To: rintintin

Season 2.

Hello


33 posted on 11/18/2020 8:06:20 PM PST by stanne
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To: SteveH

The White House has a lot of Secret Service (agents and uniformed officers). They are more of them than people think, and they are very well armed.


34 posted on 11/18/2020 8:15:20 PM PST by ConjunctionJunction (President-Elect Conjunction Junction)
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To: delta7

Yes you are right!!


35 posted on 11/18/2020 8:21:20 PM PST by dandiegirl (BOBBY m)
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To: SteveH
...the only domestic military targets that i can think of at this time are within the USG, eg potentially rogue elements of the existing US military forces, or maybe rogue FBI, or maybe rogue CIA special ops who have been let loose inside the US in an upcoming soft-hard coup attempt. eg a rogue black ops assassination squad.

Interesting...

36 posted on 11/18/2020 8:23:50 PM PST by GOPJ (The commie appeal is: YOU can be a child again with loving parents who will take care of YOU. )
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To: ConjunctionJunction

maybe they want to reinforce that existing force. or maybe they want a new second force in case the existing force has been compromised(?).


37 posted on 11/18/2020 8:35:12 PM PST by SteveH
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To: Forward the Light Brigade

imaginably it could be random civilians in a few larger isolated cities. mop up for national guard or military. the surrounding rural areas and a few suburbs here and there would imaginably support trump. (but dunno anything for certain...)


38 posted on 11/18/2020 8:40:20 PM PST by SteveH
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To: All

be prepared! (buy more tp!) lol


39 posted on 11/18/2020 8:41:40 PM PST by SteveH
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To: Forward the Light Brigade
the coup has already been attempted....it hopefully fails....

stop projecting onto Trump what the leftists have attempted to do..

40 posted on 11/18/2020 9:01:15 PM PST by cherry
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