The CIA has become a major overseas war-fighting force since 2001.

Evidence

Since the onset of the war on terror, CIA paramilitary activities have grown dramatically. These activities have included the creation of secret bases in places such as Pakistan, Somalia, Libya, and elsewhere in the Middle East, as well as the CIA’s drone assassination program. In short, the intelligence agency has become a major war fighting force. With thousands killed by CIA operations, it only makes sense to consider its expenditures as military costs. In the fiscal year 2013 black budget, released by the Washington Post, the CIA received 2.6 billion for “covert action,” which would include the drone program and other paramilitary operations abroad, and about 2.5 billion for its war operations. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 641

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• XREF: Connects to any treatment of the CIA’s secret bases and drone program as an undercounted component of the global base network.

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• The CIA now operates as a major military war-fighting force (similarity 0.96)
• The overseas base network is what enables sustained distant warfare (similarity 0.78)