Easily Explained - A Logical Evolution :: Reader comments at Daniel Pipes

Submitted by Gary Misch (United States), Mar 23, 2014 at 22:01

Special Operations Forces have become the magic swiss army knife of two consecutive administrations. They are taking on the imprint of each. If Rumsfeld could have had a SPECOPS only military, he would have. The Obama administration has a notoriously short attention span for anything, but they finally got around to putting their mark on things. It sounds like they want to remake all of SPECOPS in the image of the Green Berets, with Samantha Power as the Eminence Grise.

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	Title	Commenter	Date	Thread
	The very model of a modern major-general [31 words]	Sceptic	Apr 25, 2014 18:20	214617
	STRATEGIC APPRECIATION - 2.0 [178 words]	Michael S.	Apr 14, 2014 04:41	214457
	basic specops stuff, jargon optional [48 words]	ed in texas	Mar 31, 2014 08:27	214158
	But.... [246 words]	Keith Lembke	Mar 30, 2014 07:17	214104
	How Will They Do That? [82 words]	Mark D	Mar 27, 2014 21:36	214073
1	Our Military has completely changed from the Vietnam days [43 words]	Michael Hanni Morcos	Mar 27, 2014 14:13	214058
	You missed the Point [186 words] w/response from Daniel Pipes	Todd	Mar 25, 2014 15:15	214002
	Barking up the wrong tree... [367 words] w/response from Daniel Pipes	John	Mar 25, 2014 11:28	213999
3	The world looks bleaker by the minute [255 words]	Bella	Mar 25, 2014 09:46	213995
1	OK I am perhaps not stupid [55 words]	Hugo	Mar 25, 2014 06:23	213989
	To be expected, I'm afraid... [362 words]	Mike	Mar 24, 2014 18:51	213981
	SOF Operating Booklet [45 words] w/response from Daniel Pipes	Baron	Mar 24, 2014 17:51	213979
2	Sorry. Not insane. [90 words]	Doug Mayfield	Mar 24, 2014 17:24	213978
	Obfuscation is a scary tool [27 words]	Harry Sterling	Mar 24, 2014 12:21	213976
	2.0 Graphic...is that for real or an Aghan war rug ? [11 words]	Col. Skip Booth	Mar 24, 2014 10:26	213975
2	The worrisome future of the Special Operation forces....The World is upside down [38 words]	Anne	Mar 24, 2014 09:54	213974
	The fault lies within us [214 words]	John w. McGinley	Mar 24, 2014 08:15	213972
	Plus ca change... [64 words]	Dan Simon	Mar 24, 2014 01:13	213960
	more on DOD planning and attitudes [47 words]	anonymous coward	Mar 23, 2014 23:50	213959
3	Makes perfect sense, if you are an obamunist and want to... [147 words]	Les Legato	Mar 23, 2014 22:02	213956
	Easily Explained - A Logical Evolution [80 words]	Gary Misch	Mar 23, 2014 22:01	213955
1	You should be worried [73 words]	Olive Tree	Mar 23, 2014 21:25	213954
2	Insane [1 words]	Robin Rosenblatt	Mar 23, 2014 19:02	213949