Tag: US: Special Ops

NOVANEWS By Nick Turse, TomDispatch Soldiers engage in a training exercise in Fort Irwin, California, on August 28, 2016. (Photo: The US Army) "We don't know exactly where we're at in the world, militarily, and what we're doing," said Senator Lindsey Graham, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, in October. That was in the wake of the combat deaths of four members of the Special Operations forces in the West African nation of Niger. Graham and other senators expressed shock about the deployment, but the global sweep of America's most elite forces is, at best, an open secret. Earlier this year before that same Senate committee -- though Graham was not in attendance -- General Raymond Thomas, the chief of US Special Operations Command (SOCOM), offered some clues about the p...