U.S. Waging A Number Of 'Small Wars' Against Global Terror Groups

CNN: U.S. special forces wage secretive 'small wars' against terrorists

Washington (CNN): President Barack Obama is increasingly calling upon Special Operations forces to carry out so-called "small wars" across the Middle East and Africa to challenge both ISIS and al Qaeda in places where the U.S. maintains a footprint beyond Syria and Iraq.

In his first trip overseas since taking command of U.S. Special Operations a month ago, Gen. Raymond Thomas told a Middle Eastern audience recently that "complex" fails to adequately describe the current security environment.

That complexity is leading the Obama administration to expand the use of small teams of Special Operators in various terror hotspots.

Thomas previously served as head of the secretive Joint Special Operations Command -- the unit that includes Navy SEALS, the Army's Delta Force and other covert Special Operations units.

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WNU Editor: This blog is dedicated to covering wars and conflicts and the international political/diplomacy that follows .... but even I have lost count on how many wars and conflicts the U.S. is now currently involved in. The problem that I see with this policy is that as U.S. involvement escalates .... all of these conflicts are also escalating, with no end result on the horizon.