Posted on 01/27/2016 4:23:29 PM PST by Nachum
President Obama’s nominee to head U.S. Central Command recently penned a memo to Defense Secretary Ash Carter demanding that the Pentagon stop discussing the operations of elite American troops.
Foreign Policy, which obtained an excerpt of the memo, reported that Gen. Joseph Votel, currently the chief of U.S. Special Operations Command, wrote the December 8 memo to express concern about the Obama administration’s exposure of special operations forces’ activities.
“I am concerned with increased public exposure of SOF activities and operations, and I assess that it is time to get our forces back into the shadows,†Votel wrote to Carter.
While it remains unclear to what public comments Votel was referring, the memo was sent just days after the White House revealed that it was sending approximately 200 special operations forces to Iraq to combat ISIS.
According to the defense official who provided the excerpt of the memo, Votel further wrote that publicizing the operations makes it more difficult for U.S. forces to conduct them. He also “requested the department support him with an approach to avoid public discussion of SOF activities,†the defense official said.
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So someone leaks his memo?
I know Joe Votel well. He is one of the good guys. He is no longer the Commander of SOCOM for reasons that I understand but cannot confirm. He has been nominated to command ISAF, the NATO command in Afghanistan. If you met him in a pub, you would think him to be a Professor of English Lit. How wrong you would be. He is right on this point.
Ash Carter is carrying out his instructions from Obama to weaken the US military in every way possible...and Carter is carrying out his orders enthuiastically.
Good for Gen Votel.
Biden got those Seal team 6 guys killed.
“...publicizing the operations makes it more difficult ...”
that’s the point.
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Maybe it was the Pentagon.
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CNN put a picture of them on tv yesterday. I COULD NOT believe it. Hubby and I sat here and I said did they just put a picture of our special ops troops on tv??? I was talking to the tv for a while.
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