And then it obviously to the pentagon and white house a very short order. It really works for the secretary of defense and the president. And the difference between what j sock does compared to what the cias special activities or paramilitary division does, what is the real difference . Guest there is certainly an overlap between those two organizations now, and you will often find the members of each organization on the same battlefield, as battlefield, as it were, or in the same embassy doing the same work. The obvious difference is the joint special Operations Command leader who has a lot more, a lot more firepower. The special Activities Division you would expect to be working and battlefields in which the United States is not at work with, perhaps, slightly shadier characters in the military. And the different authority, different Legal Authority in the military, but there is not increasingly, especially in the last few years, joint special Operations Command, special Mission Unit
So how hard was it to do this book, how long did it take . Guest it took three years of fulltime research and writing, obviously thats not counting my two decades plus as a reporter on military and National Security issues prior to that, you know, gaining a lot of that information of previous articles, previous books and its also not counting the time spent in the editing process after those three years were up. It was very difficult but, you know, obviously not impossible to find the people and, you know, in some cases the other publish works or unpublished works that could power the story of this organization from its roots in 1980 all the way to the fight of Islamic State. Joint special Operations Command is the command United States military secret special Operations Missions. It was formed in 1980 as a result of the failure of operation eagle claw which was the at the same time to rescue the american hostages in iran. The pentagon put together a Blue Chip Board of half a dozen ret
Know, a hundred times before. Ive got it. It may not seem to be our fight, but i guarantee you its our fight because it threatens our National Interests abroad and here in the states. Rose admiral mcraven for the hour, next. Rose funding for charlie rose has been provided by american express. Rose additional funding provided by and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and Information Services worldwide. Captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Rose admiral William Mcraven is here, retired from his postas commander of u. S. Special operations last year after more than three and a half decades of military service. In that role he oversaw the expansion of americas most elite warriors across the globe. She best known for advising and directing the navy seale zeal raid that killed Osama Bin Laden in 2011. Chuck hagel said a full account of mcravens career has yet to be written but will have to be heavily redacted. He is a wa
Know, a hundred times before. Ive got it. It may not seem to be our fight, but i guarantee you its our fight because it threatens our National Interests abroad and here in the states. Rose admiral mcraven for the hour, next. Rose funding for charlie rose has been provided by american express. Rose additional funding provided by and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and Information Services worldwide. Captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Rose admiral William Mcraven is here, retired from his postas commander of u. S. Special operations last year after more than three and a half decades of military service. In that role he oversaw the expansion of americas most elite warriors across the globe. She best known for advising and directing the navy seale zeal raid that killed Osama Bin Laden in 2011. Chuck hagel said a full account of mcravens career has yet to be written but will have to be heavily redacted. He is a wa
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