{"id":5190,"date":"2015-02-03T06:27:38","date_gmt":"2015-02-03T11:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5190"},"modified":"2015-02-03T06:27:38","modified_gmt":"2015-02-03T11:27:38","slug":"the-golden-age-of-black-ops-in-fiscal-2015-u-s-special-forces-have-already-deployed-to-105-nations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5190","title":{"rendered":"The Golden Age of Black Ops \u2013 In Fiscal 2015 U.S. Special Forces Have Already Deployed to 105 Nations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<h3 class=\"post-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/libertyblitzkrieg.com\/2015\/02\/02\/the-golden-age-of-black-ops-in-fiscal-2015-u-s-special-forces-have-already-deployed-to-105-nations\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Golden Age of Black Ops \u2013 In Fiscal 2015 U.S. Special Forces Have Already Deployed to 105 Nations<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><strong><em>During the\u00a0fiscal year\u00a0that ended on September 30, 2014, U.S. Special Operations forces (SOF) deployed to 133 countries \u2014 roughly 70% of the nations on the planet\u00a0\u2014 according to Lieutenant Colonel Robert Bockholt, a public affairs officer with U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM).\u00a0 This capped a three-year span in which the country\u2019s most elite forces were active in more than 150 different countries around the world, conducting missions ranging from kill\/capture night raids to training exercises.\u00a0 And this year could be a record-breaker.\u00a0\u00a0Only a day before the failed raid that ended Luke Somers life \u2014 just 66 days into fiscal 2015 \u2014 America\u2019s most elite troops had already set foot in 105 nations, approximately 80% of 2014\u2019s total.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Despite its massive scale and scope, this secret global war across much of the planet is unknown to most Americans\u2026\u201dWe want to be everywhere,\u201d said Votel at Geolnt.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2013 From Nick Turse\u2019s article in the Huffington Post:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/nick-turse\/black-ops_b_6507142.html\">The Golden Age of Black Ops<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The following article is one I\u2019ve wanted to highlight for over a week, but the news has been so overwhelming I simply haven\u2019t had a chance. Until now.<\/p>\n<p>As someone who spends much of his time trying to understand the world around him, I\u2019m always astounded to be floored by something I read. While regular readers of this site are well aware of how aggressively and irresponsibly\u00a0the U.S. empire deploys military assets abroad, I think some of the following information will still shock you.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Golden Age of Black Ops \u2013 In Fiscal 2015 U.S. Special Forces Have Already Deployed to 105 Nations During the\u00a0fiscal year\u00a0that ended on September 30, 2014, U.S. Special Operations forces (SOF) deployed to 133 countries \u2014 roughly 70% of the nations on the planet\u00a0\u2014 according to Lieutenant Colonel Robert Bockholt, a public affairs officer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3140,259,3142,844,3141],"class_list":["post-5190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-black-ops","tag-empire","tag-us-empire","tag-us-military","tag-us-special-operations-forces"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5191,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5190\/revisions\/5191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}