Is JSOC Out of Bounds or in the End Zone?

Posted By Blackfive • [February 13, 2012]

Spencer Ackerman at Wired's Danger Room writes about the resurgence of JSOC - not in the business of fighting (already do that exceptionally well), but in the intelligence world.

...The leader of a JSOC unit in Iraq, known as K-Bar, gets shot in the chest by insurgents. K-Bar waves away his medic until he finishes killing his assailants. His reward? Leading JSOC’s operations in Afghanistan.

Ludicrous acts of superhuman bravado are part of JSOC’s myth and mystique. That mystique is hard to penetrate: JSOC is so secretive that it instructs its members not to write down important information, lest it be vulnerable to disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act. But a new book reveals that killing might not even be the most important thing JSOC does...

It's not.  Born out of necessity, JSOC is in the intel business (better to do it yourself) and the three letter agencies don't like it.

Read the whole piece.

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Is JSOC Out of Bounds or in the End Zone?

Spencer Ackerman at Wired's Danger Room writes about the resurgence of JSOC - not in the business of fighting (already do that exceptionally well), but in the intelligence world.

...The leader of a JSOC unit in Iraq, known as K-Bar, gets shot in the chest by insurgents. K-Bar waves away his medic until he finishes killing his assailants. His reward? Leading JSOC’s operations in Afghanistan.

Ludicrous acts of superhuman bravado are part of JSOC’s myth and mystique. That mystique is hard to penetrate: JSOC is so secretive that it instructs its members not to write down important information, lest it be vulnerable to disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act. But a new book reveals that killing might not even be the most important thing JSOC does...

It's not.  Born out of necessity, JSOC is in the intel business (better to do it yourself) and the three letter agencies don't like it.

Read the whole piece.

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