Posted on 11/29/2020 3:15:44 AM PST by RoosterRedux
The move "will put special operations command on par with the military services for the first time,” acting SecDef Chris Miller announced today
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The crux of the transformation will ensure that the top special operations official at the Pentagon can go directly to the Defense Secretary on matters of training and equipping special operations forces, along with operational matters, including secret raids against high-value targets. The office will no longer have to move through the larger DoD Policy apparatus to reach the secretary, though some issues with the country’s larger counterterrorism policy will likely still need to be coordinated with the office of the undersecretary of defense for policy.
The Tampa-based Special Operations Command has grown exponentially since 2001, as the Pentagon has relied on elite troops to conduct raids against insurgent leaders and train and partner with local forces in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria. Advocates of the move have long said the SO/LIC office needs to be treated more like a service secretary, given the swelling budgets and thousands of SOF troops deployed around the world.
The move in many ways puts the commander of Special Operations Command and the assistant secretary leading SO/LIC “on a more equal footing [with service chiefs] in the eyes of the secretary,” Hartig added, as opposed to being layered underneath the Policy office. “I think that greater civilian oversight of the office is really important. And this is certainly one way to do that.”
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Naw. Must be a coinkidink.
McInerny hasn’t been in the loop in years, plus he’s a talking head on the news circuit, which means whatever he spouts is either designed by himself to promote his fan base, consultantcy, etc., or else he’s a witting or unwitting bullshit injector being fed disinfo for some other purpose.
Those who really know things don’t talk about it, those who talk, don’t know.
Put your money on the op in Iran targeting the lead Iranian scientist being the better indicator of the new policy [in coordination with our allies] rather than far fetched Sorcha Faal nonsense about US forces fighting each other.
A number of people I have worked with in the couple of years, in relevant places I have been, have continued to bring Gen. McInerny into conversation over a number of ic matters.
News of such things wouldn’t come out...unless it serves a purpose by being released.
So you say. Flynn is back in working with him. Got his security clearance back.
Saw that the HarrisBiden will be tapping Hilary as Sec Def ... now with added powers to clean up her “deplorables” Arkansas style.
The change was made on the 18th. The supposed raid I think was supposedly made before that.
But the EO about the chain of command was on the 18th after the supposed raid.
Do you have a date for the raid?
bump for later reading
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