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11 Jun, 5 tweets, 1 min read
The pearl clutching over Operation Paperclip. Wait until you hear about the Lodge Act... More former Nazis in Det A in Berlin than Americans when it first started. Herman Adler was fmr SS, fought on the Eastern Front. Went on to help w/ a Army SMU selection program for many years
One American Det A member told me about their morning formation (done in a hallway b/c it was a clandestine unit) in which the Sergeant Major asked who wanted to go to the D-Day reunion coming up. Det A member Gerhard Kunert raised his hand.
The Sergeant Major stopped as he was writing his name down on the clipboard and says, "Kunert you were not even in the U.S. Army in 1944!" To which he replies ya but I was there and want to go to the reunion!
BTW, America won WWII. Have a good day everyone.
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8 May
My latest with @zachsdorfman reveals the operational details of Soleimani's killing, including the presence of Delta Force and Task Force Orange and the crucial role of Kurdish counterterrorism operators at the airport. More below.

news.yahoo.com/conspiracy-is-…
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The unit's inception goes goes back to the CIA and later JSOC and 10th SFG inserting into Iraq prior to the 2003 invasion. Most people know about op Viking Hammer in which 10th Group linked up with the Kurds and battled Ansar al-Islam, suspected of having a chemical weapons lab.
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26 Jan
My two cents on this important article from @David_Philipps. I've been trying to tell people for years now that SOF has absolutely no special ability to resist attacks on their cognitive spaces. We have no special training to deal with this.

nytimes.com/2021/01/26/us/…
I first started noticing this during the Obama admin as I was watching Special Forces veterans (mostly on Facebook) jump onboard with clear Russian propaganda, the source was not even concealed. These were Cold Warriors, now worshipping Putin as a defender of Christianity.
It was absolutely bizarre watching people who I thought should know better salivate over a foreign dictator while they decried Obama as a usurper undermining the fabric of America. Putin was the strong white man, Obama was the secret Muslim. Their minds had been captured.
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12 Jan
Amazing interview today w/ @_Shan_Martinez_ discussing extremism in the military. Shannon became a neo-Nazi as a teenager near a military base and knew over 30 soldiers involved before she left the movement. The interview will be on @starsandstripes but I wanted to share this 🧵
Me: I want to ask what your perspective is on this on why there are so many veterans involved at the Capitol Building riots this last week.

Shannon: there are lots of different folks that showed up that we saw there, that there are many different strains in iteration of things,
so to speak about the people who were there as any sort of monolith, or one sort of cohesive group would be a serious misstep in my opinion. I think, it's so much of what so many veterans experience and feel when they leave, you know, it's like this sense of
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27 Oct 20
Bombshells inbound. Got a lot to say about this, especially after many Aussie SOF members assured me for years that this was, "no big deal" and that, "nothing will come from this." JSOC and 22SAS may have their reckoning as well. More below:

theage.com.au/national/blood…
It is known in certain circles how and why Australian SAS operators began carrying hatchets on target. This article makes reference to the SOF culture of hero worship. SAS operators did exchanges with DEVGRU (SEAL Team Six) and saw them carrying Dan Winkler hatchets,
Which are used for war crimes. Monkey see, monkey do, guess what Aussie SAS guys are now carrying around in Afghanistan? This report due out appears spot on in regard to the rot with SOF and how it has spread and perpetuated itself.
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25 Sep 20
So popular social media narratives aside, it turns out that in fact there are some differences between men and women and it isn't all just a social construct. I will never understand people who decry the Army for emphasizing fitness and lethality. Rant:

washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
There is a movement to make changes in the military that starts off being perfectly well meaning, that wants to make the force more diverse. This is a good thing, because it reduces institutional inbreeding ie: "that's the way we've always done things here." However, it comes
with significant bandwagoning and is taken to ridiculous extremes. Many political entrepreneurs seek to use the military as a vehicle to advance progressive politics. This is quite odd because it is asking the military to be the one thing that it can never be, not at war anyway.
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24 Sep 20
New GAO report on federal law enforcement tactical teams. I'm particularly interested in the FBI's Hostage Rescue Team (HRT) and the Coastie units. Here we get some interesting data on deployments and personnel. For instance, we learn there are 149 HRT members. Image
"FBI officials stated that the HRT was deployed to Washington, D.C., in response to the civil unrest and protests. The reported primary responsibility of team members was to protect federal facilities and potentially respond as a QRF in the event of injured officers."
Interesting stuff on DOE's nuclear transport security unit. A lot of ex-SOF guys there and have told me it is a boring job. Would not want to be one of those guys though. Had someone tell me the contingency if bad guys are about to capture a weapon is to just JDAM the vehicle. Image
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