U.S. Special Operations Command are in 120

We are openly involved in two of the ten major wars going on on the Earth. The CIA, NSA and U.S. Special Operations Command are in 120 countries of the 196. Open engagement or covert warfare. We do a lot of traveling. A whole lot more than Afghanistan or Iraq. Our global presence is now in about 60% of the world’s nations and far larger than anyone acknowledges. The clandestine Pentagon power elite are waging a secret war in all corners of the world. From a force of about 37,000 in the early 1990s, Special Operations Command personnel have grown to almost 60,000, about a third of whom are career members of SOCOM; the rest have other occupational specialties, but periodically cycle through the command. Growth has been exponential since September 11, 2001, as SOCOM’s baseline budget almost tripled. If you add in funding for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, it has actually more than quadrupled in these years. Not surprisingly, the number of its personnel deployed abroad has also jumped four-fold. Further increases, and expanded operations, are on the horizon.