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WASHINGTON Acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller on Wednesday ordered the Pentagons top civilian overseeing the militarys special operations community to report directly to him, effectively elevating U.S. Special Operations Command to the same level of the Pentagons military departments.
The change makes the assistant secretary of defense for special operations and low intensity conflict a service secretary-like position responsible for the oversight and advocacy of the militarys special operations forces, said Miller, who is expected to serve in the Defense Departments top job only about two months.
https://www.stripes.com/news/us/acting-defense-secretary-orders-top-special-ops-civilian-to-report-directly-to-him-1.652557
Grasswire2
(13,565 posts)FirstLight
(13,360 posts)Special Ops in Iran? You know Trump has to blow something up before he leaves office, he has all that firepower, he wants to use it!
2naSalit
(86,526 posts)Delphinus
(11,830 posts)cilla4progress
(24,725 posts)about???
Arazi
(6,829 posts)Who has been specially installed by a president whose refusing to accept his defeat.
Not good.
Mike 03
(16,616 posts)as we begin to (allegedly) pull troops out of Afghanistan, since he's tried to get his filthy paws on some government contracts to move his private army there.
General Mattis, McMaster, Kelly and others laughed him out of the Pentagon, but all those people who despised Prince's plan are long gone.
Arazi
(6,829 posts)He cannot get enough War.
Says a lot about someone intimately familiar with combat that he
Yearns for conflict. Corrosive soul.
Nexus2
(1,261 posts)Enterstageleft
(3,395 posts)try fucking with Special Ops. That is the BIGGEST, & possibly last mistake you could ever make.
2naSalit
(86,526 posts)They still have an oath to keep and it isn't in Miller's favor or mf45's either.
roamer65
(36,745 posts)That one had it as a conflict in Iran.
TomSlick
(11,096 posts)DoD is essentially a huge staff organization. It commands nothing.
The Secretary of Defense - confirmed or acting - is not in the chain-of-command. Special ops commanders fall within a chain-of-command to which they answer. That chain-of-command will eventually reach POTUS but will not go through DoD.
sarisataka
(18,586 posts)In the chain of command.
I am not sure where people are getting the idea he is not. The President is CINC, followed by SecDef. Beneath him are the civilian Service Secretaries, then it goes onto the uniformed military members.
TomSlick
(11,096 posts)10 U.S. Code § 162(b):
(b) Chain of command. --Unless otherwise directed by the President, the chain of command to a unified or specified combatant command runs--
(1) from the President to the Secretary of Defense; and
(2) from the Secretary of Defense to the commander of the combatant command.
I live and learn.
JHB
(37,158 posts)...is this Donnie throwing a MINE! MINE! MINE! tantrum and shutting off any avenue of outside accountability just for the sake of doing that?