#jsoc — Public Fediverse posts

Naylor went to Afghanistan with US troops. He spent years covering special operations. This book shows every bit of that work.
#books #bookreview #JSOC #nonfiction
https://thisgrandpablogs.com/joint-special-operations-command/

McChrystal turned JSOC into a machine. Naylor shows the commanders who built it — and the choices that made it work.
#books #bookreview #JSOC #specialoperations
https://thisgrandpablogs.com/joint-special-operations-command/

It started with a disaster. The 1980 Iran rescue crashed in the desert. Eight soldiers died. JSOC rose from those ashes.
#books #bookreview #JSOC #militaryhistory
https://thisgrandpablogs.com/joint-special-operations-command/

Delta Force. SEAL Team Six. One command runs them both. For years the US government wouldn't admit JSOC even existed.
#books #bookreview #JSOC #militaryhistory
https://grandpasbookreviews.blogspot.com/2026/06/relentless-strike-jsoc.html

JSOC runs Delta Force and SEAL Team Six. For years the US wouldn't confirm it existed. This book tells the full story.
#books #bookreview #JSOC #militaryhistory
https://thisgrandpablogs.com/joint-special-operations-command/

Inside Relentless Strike, the cost of secrecy is clear: lives lost, choices made, and wars fought.
#MilitarySecrets #JSOC #books #bookreviews
https://thisgrandpablogs.com/joint-special-operations-command/

"If the #US is at "war" in the waters near #Venezuela, as #Hegseth insists, then the double-tap ordered by the commander of #JSOC is an unambiguous violation of the Law of Armed Conflict's prohibition on killing survivors of a military operation. But if the US is not in such a state of #war, as the Justice Department insists... then Hegseth, #Bradley and "everyone from SECDEF down to the individual who pulled the trigger" are simply murderers."

#PeteHegseth #WarCrimes #Murder #News #US #USA

"CIA & the US military were only allowed to use drone strikes against known terrorist leaders whose location could be confirmed & who appeared on secret CIA & JSOC target lists"…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Targeted_killing
Obama authorized the #CIA & #JSOC "to fire on targets based solely on their intelligence #signatures —patterns of behavior that are detected through signals intercepts, human sources & aerial surveillance, and that indicate the presence of an important operative or a plot against U.S. interests."

Secondo Seymour Hersh, il comando #JSOC delle operazioni speciali in #Afghanistan era pervaso da uno spirito di Crociata, che Hersh ricollegava anche ai rapporti con organizzazioni cattoliche fondamentaliste come appunto #OpusDei e #CavalieriDiMalta.

ArviZ is participating in Google Summer of Code 2024 under the #NumFOCUS umbrella. We have projects in both #Python and #JuliaLang. If interested in working on one of these projects, get in touch! https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/wiki/GSoC-2024-projects @TuringLang #GSoC #JSoC #bayesian

@ArviZ @TuringLang Also, in the next few weeks @ArviZ will have pure #JuliaLang implementations of all core functionality *except* for #Bayesian plots! We have a number of #GSoC #JSoC projects for porting plotting recipes in Plots.jl and Makie.jl. If you like visualizing posterior draws; love clean, informative plots; and enjoy one or both of these plotting packages, this project could be a great fit for you!

See e.g. https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/wiki/GSoC-2023-projects#model-diagnostics-plots-julia for details!

Reminder: I'll be mentoring a joint @ArviZ and @TuringLang #GSoC #JSoC project working on model-refitting for leave-one-out cross-validation. This project will make model comparison and assessment in Turing.jl more ergonomic and lay key groundwork for similar integration with other PPLs. If that sounds like something you'd like to work on, let us know! #JuliaLang

For details, see https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/wiki/GSoC-2023-projects#reloo-for-turing-models-julia. Please boost to help reach potential applicants!

Reminder: just over a week left to apply for Google Summer of Code with @ArviZ! We have exciting projects for improving the #Bayesian modeling workflow in both #Python and #JuliaLang. #GSoC #JSoC https://github.com/arviz-devs/arviz/wiki/GSoC-2023-projects