Personally, I believe the special operators are the most likely group in the military to be "in on the plan." I don't think rank and file or NG would have any idea. SpecOps have worked in secrecy all their lives. It's part of what makes them worthy of being selected.

The service plans to brief Capitol Hill in the coming days on the reductions. Mostly, the Army plans to cut special-operations troops in supporting roles such as psychological warfare, civil affairs, intelligence operators, communications troops, logistics and other so-called enablers, U.S. military officials said. The cuts would follow the reallocation last year of more than 700 special-operations troops from the Army and other services. In sum, the cuts to the Pentagon’s umbrella Special Operations Command would amount to about 3,700 troops since last year.

If I were to hazard a guess, this is an effort to weaken them, because they know what's up.

u/#afraid

Of course, you can’t ‘lose’ battles if you have an elite fighting force.

The trouble is that I am becoming extremely cynical about every piece of news I see. In this case, my cynical mind tells me that the US has just lost 3,000 Special Ops people, mainly in Ukraine, and someone is trying to get Brownie Points for achieving a goal.

Its going mostly automated.

It's sad they were being forced to wear masks outdoors. And you wonder why our govt fears the millions of pissed off veterans above any other demograpic.