John Prados, The Future of Covert Action,
in
L. Johnson (ed.), „Hanbook
of intelligence studies”, 2007
(291) An additional dimension of CIA field experience
is the increased centrality of “support to military operations” (SMO),
which have absorbed an increasing proportion of such CIA capabilities as do
exist, at least since the Gulf War of 1991. In Somalia, in Bosnia, in Afghanistan, and now in Iraq, the SMO function
has tended to monopolize covert capabilities.
(292) In Bosnia
and the occupation of Iraq the special forces have worked as elite strike
teams, (…) First introduced as a surveillance system over Bosnia in the 1990s, a
version of this UAV armed with the Hellfire missile was developed by the
CIA and the Air Force in 2000–01.
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