Inside JSOC’s Most Dangerous Mission Ever | EYES ON GEOPOLITICS

Jack Murphy joins us to break down his new High Side investigation into JSOC’s planned mission to recover highly enriched uranium from Iran, a raid some insiders compared to “Eagle Claw 2.0.” He explains why the operation would have required far more than a small special operations team, the risks of fighting in a CBRN environment, and why the mission may have been too dangerous to greenlight.The High Side:https://substack.com/@thehighside/note/p-192763347?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=mr77mJack's new book:https://a.co/d/0gywUGvn00:00 - Inside JSOC’s Planned Iran WMD Raid01:21 - Why Some Called It “Eagle Claw 2.0”03:41 - Why Getting Into Iran Was Only Half the Problem04:46 - Not a Quick Hit: Why This Required 1,000+ Troops06:40 - Moving Highly Enriched Uranium Out of Iran07:37 - Fighting Through a CBRN Environment08:04 - The Libya WMD Plan That Foreshadowed Iran09:55 - The Limits of Small Special Operations Teams11:10 - Why JSOC Wanted to Capture the Uranium12:29 - The Dirty Bomb Risk of Leaving Material Behind14:56 - Why Trump Did Not Greenlight the Raid18:14 - JSOC vs. CENTCOM Tensions Over the Mission20:37 - Iran’s Air Defenses and MQ-9 Reaper Losses25:20 - JSOC’s Counter-WMD Mission Before 9/1132:10 - Pakistan’s Fear of a U.S. Nuclear Weapons Raid"Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio"Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-team-house--5960890/support.