U.S. special forces stationed in 75 countries 13,000 was granted the right to pre-emptive action
Date:2011-08-31Author:adminCategory:International militaryComment:0
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BEIJING, June 6 (Xinhua) Hong Kong, “Wen Wei Po” 6 reported that U.S. President Barack Obama took office, President George W. Bush to abandon the former policy of unilateralism, focus on global diplomatic contacts. But the original diplomatic dialogue in the initiative, while secretly a substantial increase in the number of special forces deployed overseas, and efforts to wipe out al-Qaida arrest.
Obama the White House early last year when U.S. special forces deployed in less than 60 countries, but with Obama ordered in Yemen and the Horn of Africa base of active sites, as well as in the Middle East, massive expansion of special forces in Central Asia and Africa, currently deployed to 75 countries, a total of some 13,000 troops, of which about 9,000 people located in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Obama has authorized special forces to take pre-emptive action, crushing terror plot, forces of the powers, but also much larger than the Bush era.
budget by 5.7% invested 49.1 billion
experienced 911 attacks in the United States began to deploy overseas as a front-line anti-terrorism special forces weapons. But Obama is clearly more dependent on special forces, in its global security strategy to play a more strenuous role. Obama has requested in the 2011 Budget, to increase special forces budget by 5.7% to $ 6.3 billion.
Obama secretly destroy the base and to strengthen other organizations, frequently sent from unmanned air strikes in Afghanistan and Pakistan border machine operations can be confirmed. U.S. military plans to spend up to recently $ 100 million expansion of special operations headquarters in northern Afghanistan. In Iraq, the U.S. military in the past 90 days alone has killed 34 base elements of action plan, U.S. commanders in Baghdad said, the special forces infiltrate a base in Mosul in northern Iraq headquarters, will help the U.S. military responsible for raising the locking funding and recruitment base for the central figure.
Baa criticized indiscriminate killing of civilians
special forces deployed overseas and to strengthen sent unmanned machine, the U.S. has been the initiative of Vice President Biden strategy, but the actions of a large number of innocent civilians killed or injured by the fierce criticism of the government of Pakistan and Afghanistan.
In addition, the day before U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates ordered the Defense Ministry and armed forces over the next five years to save up to $ 101.9 billion spending to the Special Forces units, including combat troops to allocate more funds, which In the 2012 fiscal year will be required to cut costs and improve efficiency by saving $ 7 billion. This is expected to lead to dissatisfaction with Congress, Bill Gates, the Defense Department was forced to cancel the military branch cut orders may offend military enterprises.
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