According to Hersh, the Navy actually wasn't told about this, and the operation was conducted during the exercise in order to get the explosives into place. Even the ship that launched them had no idea that they had deviated from the exercise.
It's a hell of a thing to not only bomb Germany, a NATO ally, but also to implicate the USN without their foreknowledge.
The special forces unit, whichever one it was, was operating under the directives of SOCOM, via the president, not under the Navy or EURCOM.
Yeah, we kinda saw this.
According to Hersh, the Navy actually wasn't told about this, and the operation was conducted during the exercise in order to get the explosives into place. Even the ship that launched them had no idea that they had deviated from the exercise.
It's a hell of a thing to not only bomb Germany, a NATO ally, but also to implicate the USN without their foreknowledge.
The special forces unit, whichever one it was, was operating under the directives of SOCOM, via the president, not under the Navy or EURCOM.