U.S. Boosts Ranks of Elite Forces -- Wall Street Journal
White House Has Secretly Expanded Strike Teams; Stepped-Up Raids Kill and Capture Thousands.
WASHINGTON—The Obama administration has been secretly building up its ranks of hunter-killer commandos, such as the Navy SEAL team that killed Osama bin Laden.
Since 2009, the U.S. has boosted the number of strike teams in Afghanistan from four to 20, each with 10 to 100 men. These and other special-operations forces have carried out thousands of raids in the past year, officials said, killing about 3,200 insurgents and capturing approximately 8,000 more.
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My Comment: With the war on terror being a conflict that is occurring across undefined borders and in failed states .... special forces is now the wave of the future to counter these threats.
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