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2017-10-23 Africa Subsaharan

Two Top Senators Didn't Know There Are 1,000 American Troops In Niger

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Posted by Besoeker 2017-10-23 10:40|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 And I can almost guarantee neither the "1000 troops" or the SOB in charge of the 1000 troops knew a damn thing about an SF A-Team meeting with locals, or the potential need for a quick reaction force (QRF) or overhead persistent surveillance.

Unity of Command, Area of Operation situational awareness? Who needs it? We're SPECIAL. Big Green Army, you wouldn't understand.

I refer to it as 'Wars Within Wars'....seen it time and time again. Thank you Goldwater-Nichols Act (Separate budget and funding line item from Big Army for SOF), thank you Klingon masters.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-10-23 10:47|| 2017-10-23 10:47|| Front Page Top

#2 That's what happened in Mogadishu. The snatch and grab commander avoided the tenets of Goldwater-Nichols Act and put himself under the UN command structure rather than the US military structure. Thus the US forces were not in readiness posture to respond.

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-10-23 11:00|| 2017-10-23 11:00|| Front Page Top

#3 Running SOF operations out of the office US Embassy Chief of Station (COS) is a cock-up waiting to happen. How many Mog's and Benghazi's do we need ?

Posted by Besoeker 2017-10-23 11:09|| 2017-10-23 11:09|| Front Page Top

#4 Sadly, most Americans feel no pain and really don't care if we have 1000 SOF troops in a place like Niger. Most folks couldn't even find the place on a map. It only becomes an issue when the MSM decides to claim that Trump was not duly sympathetic to one of the widows. MSM doesn't give a rat's ass about the widow or the 996 brave soldiers who are still there and they won't even bother to ask why. They just want to use the widow as a club to bash Trump. Extremely cynical of them.

I still think we need to pay more attention to the WOT in Europe and America than in places like Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Soddy Arabia and Niger. We don't need to send our troops there if those people can't come here. It'd help if we could get certain Hawaiian judges on board with that concept. Maybe they think they're immune from bombs going off at concerts and shopping malls.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2017-10-23 11:50|| 2017-10-23 11:50|| Front Page Top

#5 The US has Troops all over Africa and has for a long time. The Continent is in dire straights.

Posted by newc 2017-10-23 13:30|| 2017-10-23 13:30|| Front Page Top

#6 So it's colonialism if you do and isolationism if you don't. Same old tears on a not so new background...

Posted by M. Murcek 2017-10-23 15:01|| 2017-10-23 15:01|| Front Page Top

#7 I suppose it would not be news to mention my experiences in Angola to this forum.

Been a lot of Green Berets, Seals, and the like in Equitorial Africa for Decades.

How can they say that they've been getting briefings on Africa for a long time

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2017-10-23 15:23|| 2017-10-23 15:23|| Front Page Top

#8 Fluff for the voters Sock.

Posted by Skidmark 2017-10-23 21:54|| 2017-10-23 21:54|| Front Page Top

#9 Other coast has had its fair share as well.

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