Since September 11, 2001, U.S. Special Operations forces have grown in every conceivable way, including their numbers, their budget, their clout in Washington, and their place in the country’s popular imagination. The command has, for example, more than doubled its personnel from about 33,000 in 2001 to nearly 70,000 today
The ISIS monster would never have emerged without the US policy of overthrowing Assad, Barry Grossman writes. Barry K. Grossman, whatsupic.com PressTV Fri Oct 10, 2014 We should avoid always falling into the trap of assuming the various elements comprising the US dominated "Empire" security apparatus hatch, plan and execute their operations in the same More
SOCOM Operators (Photo credit: Dunechaser) “Dude, I don’t need to play these stupid games. I know what you’re trying to do.” With that, Major Matthew Robert Bockholt hung up on me. By Nick Turse January 7, 2014 TomDispatch.com Click here to read Tom Engelhardt's introduction. More than a month before, I had called More
450 Bases and It’s Not Over Yet> The Pentagon’s Afghan Basing Plans for Prisons, Drones, and Black Ops By Nick Turse February 12, 2012 Tom Dispatch In late December, the lot was just a big blank: a few burgundy metal shipping containers sitting in an expanse of crushed eggshell-colored gravel inside a razor-wire-topped fence. The American More
Tomgram: Nick Turse, Prisons, Drones, and Black Ops in Afghanistan Posted by Nick Turse February 12, 2012. Tom Dispatch In Afghanistan, “victory” came early — with the U.S. invasion of 2001. Only then did the trouble begin. Ever since the U.S. occupation managed to revive the Taliban, one of the least popular of popular movements in More
