Joint Special Operations Command

How U.S.' Top Killers Became Its Top (Unaccountable) Spies

wired.com | Posted 02.13.2012

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This is what people think of when they imagine the Joint Special Operations Command, or JSOC, the secretive, uber-elite military unit that killed Osam...

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U.S. Expands Drone War Into Somalia

The New York Times | MARK MAZZETTI and ERIC SCHMITT | Posted 08.31.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The clandestine American military campaign to combat Al Qaeda's franchise in Yemen is expanding to fight the Islamist militancy in Somal...

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U.S. Intensifying Covert War In Yemen

Reuters | Posted 08.08.2011

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June 9, 2011 3:10:21 AM WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration has intensified air strikes on suspected militants in Yemen in a bid to...

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Inside The Covert Group That Killed Bin Laden

National Journal | Marc Ambinder | Posted 07.13.2011

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Before the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound earlier this week, President Obama had experience monitoring a white-knuckles counterterrorism operation...

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Seymour Hersh: Military Being Run By 'Crusaders'

Posted 05.25.2011

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The New Yorker's Seymour Hersh alleged in a speech in Qatar that key branches of the U.S. military are being led by Christian fundamentalist "crusader...

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McChrystal: Right Man, Wrong Mission

William Bradley | Posted 05.25.2011

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William Bradley

Obama had something much more conventional in mind: Nation-building, like we tried in Vietnam, cast in the guise of counter-insurgency. McChrystal embraced it. Who knows what he really thought?

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U.S. Doubles Anti-Taliban Special Forces In Afghanistan

Los Angeles Times | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Pentagon has increased its use of the military's most elite special operations teams in Afghanistan, more than doubling the number of the highly t...

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Yemen Attacks Involve U.S. Military

Washington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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U.S. military teams and intelligence agencies are deeply involved in secret joint operations with Yemeni troops who in the past six weeks have killed ...

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New Afghanistan Commander Ran Secret "Executive Assassination Ring" Under Cheney

Tom Dispatch | Posted 05.25.2011

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Yes, Stanley McChrystal is the general from the dark side (and proud of it). So the recent sacking of Afghan commander General David McKiernan after l...

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What Does Obama's Afghan Command Change Mean?

William Bradley | Posted 05.25.2011

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William Bradley

The move from McKiernan to McChrystal also seems to signify an end to nation-building fantasies in Afghanistan.

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