How many presidents directly oversaw spec:ops missions? What do you think the view was for Trump during the Maduro raid? Was Richard Nixon in the operations room with MACV-SOG?
>>64747990Not spec ops, but Lincoln had a habit to personally relaying orders to generals because he basically had an entire telegraph office set up in the White House and would spend hours each day reading every single communiqué that came in. This meant that he he often had more real time updates on the progress of battles than officers in the field.
