{"id":201702,"date":"2020-01-31T08:20:03","date_gmt":"2020-01-31T08:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=201702"},"modified":"2020-02-02T09:00:01","modified_gmt":"2020-02-02T09:00:01","slug":"us-special-forces-losing-discipline-over-repeated-deployments-pentagon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=201702","title":{"rendered":"US special forces losing discipline over repeated deployments: Pentagon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Press TV \u2013 Jan 29, 2020<\/strong><\/h1>\n
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U.S. Iraqi and Jordanian Special Forces training at the King Abdullah Special Operations Training Center in Amman, Jordan, last year. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

The US Defense Department has warned that repeated deployments by US special forces have affected discipline within the ranks, urging changes in oversight following a series of scandals.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Near-constant deployments by Special Forces to Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria and Africa have reduced to a minimum the resting times that ensure unit cohesion, said the Pentagon report published Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a \u2018can do\u2019 culture with a bias toward action,\u201d said General Richard Clarke, commander of US Special Operations Command, presenting the report.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cNearly 20 years of continuous conflicts have imbalanced that culture to favor force employment and mission accomplishment over the routine activities that ensure leadership, accountability, and discipline,\u201d Clarke said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Active and retired officers, as well as civilians, in the Pentagon prepared the report, which was commissioned last summer after a series of disciplinary incidents.<\/span><\/p>\n

US President Donald Trump intervened last year to pardon Navy SEAL platoon leader Edward Gallagher, who was accused of war crimes for stabbing to death a Daesh (ISIS) detainee and posing for a picture next to his corpse.<\/span><\/p>\n

A US military jury acquitted Gallagher of murder but convicted him for taking the photographs.<\/span><\/p>\n

The incident led to the firing of US Navy Secretary Richard Spencer, who said he and Trump did not share an understanding about \u201cthe key principles of good order and discipline.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Trump also granted clemency to Matt Golsteyn, an ex-member of the US Army Green Berets. He was charged with premeditated murder in the shooting death of an alleged Taliban bombmaker in Afghanistan in 2010.<\/span><\/p>\n

Those cases fueled reports that the US military leadership was angered by Trump\u2019s interference in disciplinary cases.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Two decades of near continues deployments in Libya, Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, Syria and elsewhere are taking their toll on unit cohesion and discipline, says a recent Pentagon report <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the_war_on_terror","category-Miscellaneous"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=201702"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201724,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201702\/revisions\/201724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=201702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=201702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=201702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}