April 21, 2020
This Air Force Unit Is Making U.S. Special Forces Deadlier Than Ever
Intelligence is key.
by David Axe Follow @daxe on Twitter L
Here's What You Need To Remember: Between 2008 and 2012, the Pentagon grew its fleet of spy planes and surveillance drones by 238 percent—until they accounted for half of all Air Force aircraft, according to the ISR Agency history. By 2012 the Defense Department was spending $67 billion a year on intelligence and surveillance.
A secretive group of U.S. Air Force intelligence specialists flying aboard American spy planes helped U.S. military commandos kill more than a thousand enemy combatants in just a single year back in 2012.
That’s one startling revelation in the official annual history for 2012 of the Air Force’s Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Agency, a heavily-redacted copy of which the service released under the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/air-force-unit-making-us-special-forces-deadlier-ever-146611
