The U.S. has at least two or three military forces: uniformed, CIA, and contracted. The uniformed is the visible, on-budget, classic military (army, air force, navy, marines). The CIA is the invisible or less visible, off-budget, non-uniformed, covert arm. It’s any president’s “private” military. The other “private” military is the contractors, also associated with the CIA and uniformed military like Blackhawk and others. In addition to these, there are secret or elite forces that are part of the uniformed military. Thus when Obama, at least for now, says he isn’t introducing military forces on the ground, he still has at … Continue reading Obama’s Private Military