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Rise of America's Secret Military

The U.S. military is fighting more wars on covert battlefields and with armies shrouded in mystery. This board examines the Special Operation Forces, which are deployed on every continent to fight terrorism and intervene in civil wars.

Curated By Jacob Wheeler

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Special Operations Forces Worldwide

They're called Special Operation Forces — and they're everywhere, writes Nick Turse for TomDispatch.com. A review of open source information reveals that in 2012 and 2013, U.S. Special Operations forces (SOF) were likely deployed to — or training, advising, or operating with the personnel of — more than 100 foreign countries.

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Bin Laden Raid Gets the Glory

The Navy SEALs’ raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan — as recounted by Nicholas Schmidle for the New Yorker magazine — is the most famous, and celebrated example of America's secret military, but this is only the tip of the iceberg.

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U.S. Commandos Raid Pakistan Frequently

U.S. special operations forces have regularly and "surreptitiously" slipped into Pakistan in recent years, raiding suspected terrorist hideouts on Pakistani soil, reports this article in Wired magazine. It's not just bin Laden or Al Qaeda leaders we're after.

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SOCOM and Troop Mobility

With an end strength soon to reach 72,000 — up from 33,000 in 2001 — and missions in Iraq and Afghanistan mostly in their rear-view mirror, this DefenseNews story reports how the Tampa, Fla.-based US Special Operations Command is looking for ways to continue its counterterrorism mission in a manner that doesn’t necessarily involve thousands of operators on the ground working out of fixed positions.

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U.S. Military in Yemen

This Washington Post story reports that U.S. military teams and intelligence agencies are deeply involved in secret joint operations with Yemeni troops who have killed scores of people, among them six of 15 top leaders of a regional al-Qaeda affiliate, according to senior administration officials.

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Pentagon Killers Became Unaccountable Spies

This is what people think of when they imagine the Joint Special Operations Command, or JSOC — the secretive, über-elite military unit that killed Osama bin Laden, writes Spencer Ackerman for Wired. The leader of a JSOC unit in Iraq, known as K-Bar, gets shot in the chest by insurgents. K-Bar waves away his medic until he finishes killing his assailants. His reward? Leading JSOC’s operations in Afghanistan.

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Afghan Security Council Protest U.S. Special Forces

The Afghan National Security Council alleged, via President Hamid Karzai's webpage, that armed individuals named as US special forces stationed in Wardak province engage in harassing, annoying, torturing and even murdering innocent people.

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Tampa Becomes Special Ops Epicenter

U.S. Special Operations Command, headquartered at MacDill Air Force Base, just launched a new initiative that will make Tampa the epicenter of international special operations coordination, reports this story in the Tampa Tribune. On Oct. 1, as the government shutdown and 1,500 civilian Department of Defense employees at MacDill were sent home, Socom was quietly starting up the International Special Operations Forces Coordination Center. The center, known as the ISCC, for the first time provides foreign special operations liaisons space in Socom headquarters to coordinate on special operations activities around the world.

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United States Special Operations Command Through History

The continued evolution and development of modern SOF is a result of 50 years of experience, including a world war, three large regional wars, many similar conflicts and operations other than war. SOF have witnessed periods of improvisation, rapid build-ups and subsequent rapid draw­downs, some magnificent successes and some equally spectacular failures. The following SOF Truths capture the essence of lessons learned over the past decades, and provide a foundation for thinking about SOF today and in the future. _______

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, the New York Times reported in 2012.

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