"In many ways McChrystal, Flynn, McRaven, and their subordinates had designed and built the perfect hammer for the National Command Authority. The risk was that as a result, successive administrations would continue to view too many national security problems as nails."
From Relentless Strike

Any examples? Something like CIA's NR Division asking U.S. citizens to gather certain information?

Aren’t MaT guys at al-Tanf base quite heavily reliant on the U.S. forces there? If the U.S. withdraws, I wonder whether they would be able to control the flow of various nacrotics and weapons moving from Syria into Iraq.

But then I had really hard time catching up all these confusing political grounds since last December when president waged a failed martial law (de facto coup) which plan included basically hit lists of political figures including his ruling party's leader. Guess my country. 😃

I intentionally avoided news about domestic politics for about one year because they were flooded with abysmal dogshits.

This remindes me of le Carré's final novel...

No, no, you are probably right. I just wanted to make sure it was the same mission mentioned in Gordon's book.

The trip you are referring to is Impala Rider, right?