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Empire Under Obama: America's "Secret Wars" in Over 100 Countries Around the World

Empire Under Obama: America's "Secret Wars" in Over 100 Countries Around the World
October 25, 2013 "Information Clearing House -  Obama's global terror campaign is not only dependent upon his drone assassination program, but increasingly it has come to rely upon the deployment of Special Operations forces in countries all over the world, reportedly between 70 and 120 countries at any one time. As Obama has sought to draw down the large-scale ground invasions of countries (as Bush pursued in Afghanistan and Iraq), he has escalated the world of 'covert warfare,' largely outside the oversight of Congress and the public. One of the most important agencies in this global "secret war" is the Joint Special Operations Command, or JSOC for short.

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