![]() ![]() While specialized gear is more widely available to lower-Tier military units, it is in the training and tactics that truly differentiate and elevate the Tier 1 Black Ops groups. “While many groups today call themselves ‘operators,’ the real tactics and capabilities of the Tier 1 remain unknown not only to the public but to most of the military. Black operations are still very active in the military, even if the load is shifting to different agencies than before.”ĥ. Many news narratives would change completely if the presence of our special operators was revealed. They are behind the scenes of many news reports, and would rather be thought failures than reveal their capabilities. “While we got Saddam and Bin Laden with Tier 1 groups (“CAG” or Delta and DEVGRU or Seal Team 6), operations of that sort that turn the tide of global politics happen with great frequency, but are completely out of the public eye. That’s not likely to happen but it indicates how military thinking is evolving. ![]() Some are even quietly talking about whether or not it would be wise to do away with the Pentagon and let the CIA run all military operations. Future special warfare is in the Philippines and West Africa future warfare will be special operations and not large-scale warfare. Since 2003, special operations have been in the thick of it in Mogadishu, a hotbed that gets little media attention since 1993. The operators are in the Horn of Africa, which is essentially the Wild West, and they are gearing up for what is expected to be the next area of special ops combat, the Pacific Rim, where drones and black ops will fight terrorism over the next decade. “Special operations combat has already migrated away from the Middle East, for the most part. This was to ensure that if any one member was picked up and interrogated they wouldn’t be able to reveal information about the organization at large.”ģ. “The ISA was designed as a highly-compartmentalized organization small offices were scattered throughout Northern Virginia, with little communication between them. You never know who they work for until they’re gone.” The group’s current name is innocuous and completely unrevealing.”Ģ. As one special operations guy put it, “They are the ghosts of the battlefield. Meade and one in Northern Virginia - it primarily focuses on intelligence gathering and support for the Army Special Operations. While now divided into two main sides - one at Ft. It has been called The Fog, The Activity, Gray Fox, Opaque Leaf, Cemetery Wind, and Task Force Orange, among its many iterations. ![]() “The Intelligence Support Activity, the Army’s secret spy service, changes its name frequently to be invisible to both the public and the military at large. That said, here’s his list of things that he could share, in his own words.ġ. “Some things that are real we have included in the series quietly, but we have encountered a number of things in the research of this book that we have been asked not to repeat.” “What is both intriguing and aggravating, I’m sure, is that the most interesting things I’ve learned I most certainly cannot share in print,” he says. We asked Edmondson to share the five most surprising things he’s uncovered while working on “The Activity.” He’s read shelves full of books and talked to sources in the intelligence world. Edmondson has done loads of research to get the language, the tactics, the technology, the procedures and the personalities exactly right. The stories are often based on actual missions conducted by the Army’s Intelligence Support Activity. In another, the group is shipped to Colombia to deal with a drug lord. In one issue, they’re tasked to rescue a hostage in Somalia. The series follows a group of operators known as Team Omaha as they carry out missions in dangerous places throughout the globe. Reading this makes something like Showtime’s “Homeland” look like ridiculous fiction. The Image ongoing from writer Nathan Edmondson and artist Mitch Gerads provides one of the most realistic and detailed looks inside America’s special operations that you are likely to find. “The Activity” is the best series you’re probably not reading. ![]()
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