U.S. military teams, intelligence deeply involved in aiding Yemen on strikes – Washington Post

In today’s Washington Post we find an article entitled U.S. military teams, intelligence deeply involved in aiding Yemen on strikes in which we find that the U.S. is much more deeply involved in operations in Yemen than previously reported.

I have trouble believing that our troops are not involved in the operation. That would make American troops engaged on the ground in Iraq, Afghanistan, special ops in Pakistan and now Yemen against what we percieve to be an Al Qaeda web of organizations.

That does not include our troops actively involved in the terror war in the Phillipines between the government and Muslim radicals and our Navy fighting  and monitoring the pirates off the East Coast of Africa, mostly Somalia.

This also does not include the unannounced numbers of special ops troops that we have engaged in the various drug wars in South America and Central America and possibly special ops in Mexico.

It is unknown at the present time if we are conducting special ops against the North Koreans and/or the Iranians but I suspect that we are doing so.

That does not take into account whatever we may or may not be doing in what was once the Soviet sphere of influence, particularly around Georgia and Armenia and perhaps the Ukraine.

That does not include our special ops relative to air operations in the various “stans” in Central Asia.

I suspect we are also still involved militarily in the Balkans.

It is my impression that we still have ongoing anti-submarine warfare operations targeting the Russians, the Chinese and possibly left wing governments in South America and possibly elsewhere if in fact those governments can actually afford a submarine.  The Germans make a fine diesel submarine and it is quiet affordable.

We also still have ongoing air interdiction operations against the Russians and we apparently still routinely spy on the Chinese with Navy and Air Force flyovers near their naval and military installations.

Did I miss anyplace? 

That is an awful lot of money pouring out into various brush fire wars and “defense posturing”  all over the globe while we have 17.5% real unemployment with benefits running out soon, manufacturing at a very slow increase, one out of nine American homes standing empty due to mortgage default and no real products or services to sell to the world except “security” related stuff.

Ahh…guys…this is not good.  This is a recipe for endless war.  When all we have is war to sell, then all we sell to the world is war.

We used to be the world’s bread basket and now we seem to be the world’s ammunition box.  This just ain’t good.  So, what do you think?

CWO3 Tom Barnes, USCG (Ret.)