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| Terror Networks |
| New JSOC entity gets global mission |
| 2016-11-25 |
| [Wash Times] The Obama administration is giving the elite Joint Special Operations Command -- the same organization that helped kill Osama bin Laden in a 2011 raid by Navy SEALs -- expanded power to track, plan and potentially launch attacks on terrorist cells around the globe, a move driven by concerns of a dispersed terrorist threat as Islamic State militants are driven from strongholds in Iraq and Syria, U.S. officials said. The missions could occur well beyond the battlefields of places like Iraq, Syria and Libya where Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) has carried out clandestine operations in the past. When finalized, it will elevate JSOC from being a highly-valued strike tool used by regional military commands to leading a new multiagency intelligence and action force. Known as the "Counter-External Operations Task Force," the group will be designed to take JSOC’s targeting model -- honed over the last 15 years of conflict -- and export it globally to go after terrorist networks plotting attacks against the West. The creation of a new JSOC entity this late in the Obama’s tenure is the "codification" of best practices in targeting terrorists outside of conventional conflict zones, according to the officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss administration deliberations. It is unclear, however, if the administration of President-elect Donald Trump will keep this and other structures set up by Obama. They include guidelines for counterterrorism operations such as approval by several agencies before a drone strike and "near certainty" that no civilians will be killed. This series of presidential orders is known as the "playbook." |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #9 Just waiting for Mattis |
| Posted by: Blossom Hupager6063 2016-11-25 23:29 |
| #8 Perhaps the time has come to to change "Department if Defense" back into the "War Department". |
| Posted by: Lone Ranger 2016-11-25 19:22 |
| #7 I wonder if the former DIA chief being higher up will change the power equation back toward defense entities instead of DCI offices. Posted by Injun Bucket8891 Something to hope for and pray about for sure. I've been on the soap box regarding these bastids for years, no decades. Their legacy of regime change and betrayal dates back to the Bay of Pigs, possibly further. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2016-11-25 18:03 |
| #6 I wonder if the former DIA chief being higher up will change the power equation back toward defense entities instead of DCI offices. |
| Posted by: Injun Bucket8891 2016-11-25 17:57 |
| #5 Ek dink so ooks Pappy :) |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2016-11-25 17:49 |
| #4 More like 'expendables', meneer. Then again, the regime never considered them as anything else. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2016-11-25 16:58 |
| #3 I am told that over 100 tabs have recently (no exact timeframe provided) been revoked with SOF personnel burnout and departure from service following. The 'handlers' don't give a damn, these men are hired help. Little more than contractors, spit. "What difference does it make?" |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2016-11-25 15:50 |
| #2 Ugh. |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2016-11-25 15:10 |
| #1 They include guidelines for counterterrorism operations such as approval by several agencies before a drone strike Which, mirrors the standard Klingon 'coordinating process' and places them (the agency) at the final approval level, with everyone else at subordinate, requester levels (without benefit of appeal by the way). Enjoy the Command & Control whilst you can JSOC. I doubt it will last long. Rancher Cliven Bundy to the white courtesy phone please. Rancher Cliven Bundy. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2016-11-25 14:54 |