Commanding General of U.S. Special Operations Command Gen. Joseph Votel. Army.mil
Washington Free Beacon: Special Ops Commander Demands Pentagon Stop Exposing Operations
Gen. Joseph Votel: Publicity makes it harder for forces to do their jobs.
President Obama’s nominee to head U.S. Central Command recently penned a memo to Defense Secretary Ash Carter demanding that the Pentagon stop discussing the operations of elite American troops.
Foreign Policy, which obtained an excerpt of the memo, reported that Gen. Joseph Votel, currently the chief of U.S. Special Operations Command, wrote the December 8 memo to express concern about the Obama administration’s exposure of special operations forces’ activities.
“I am concerned with increased public exposure of SOF activities and operations, and I assess that it is time to get our forces back into the shadows,” Votel wrote to Carter.
While it remains unclear to what public comments Votel was referring, the memo was sent just days after the White House revealed that it was sending approximately 200 special operations forces to Iraq to combat ISIS.
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Update: Special Ops cmdr. demands White House stop disclosing mission details (Washington Times)
WNU Editor: I expect the Pentagon will listen ... but will the White House? I have my doubts.
3 comments:
WNU Editor
I don't think SEAL team 6 and Delta Force are going to pay any attention to the memo either, given their book deals, book tours and the current crop of movies and media appearances coming up.
Jay. You are correct.
BTW, video tip for you, Awakening Forces footage of the captured Saudi town of Narjan,
https://m.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=576&v=zwwRm0nVN3c&ebc=ANyPxKplqWozDy7tWsz_xU0RPZGzeAJqP0ZDekMRyBO3tjSE_pfc-uqaiWmSgAu6MDlgk7Lmd0K5HNe8MttPeeQ1K0hlG_s61AI'm
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