Washington (CNN)President
Barack Obama is increasingly calling upon Special Operations forces to
carry out so-called "small wars" across the Middle East and Africa to
challenge both ISIS and al Qaeda in places where the U.S. maintains a
footprint beyond Syria and Iraq.
In
his first trip overseas since taking command of U.S. Special Operations
a month ago, Gen. Raymond Thomas told a Middle Eastern audience
recently that "complex" fails to adequately describe the current
security environment. That complexity is leading the Obama
administration to expand the use of small teams of Special Operators in
various terror hotspots.
Thomas
previously served as head of the secretive Joint Special Operations
Command -- the unit that includes Navy SEALS, the Army's Delta Force and
other covert Special Operations units.
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