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05-30-2015, 08:27 AM
john shaft
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the whole posse comitatus thing never came up in t he comics, i think the easiest way around it is the Joes are deputised Federal agents, permitted to operate on US soil. Or there's a special Presidential Order or something
That's a good way to get around it. I recently watched the first episode of The Unit and I pictured the Joe team doing something similar, taking out some hostage-takers on an airplane (on U.S. soil). However I would imagine that the FBI or possibly Delta would be the first choices on something like that. As an adult I always found it odd that in issue #14 that Hawk could order an air strike on that Arbco furniture factory, which was on U.S soil.
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Loose Cannon
Yeah probably something like SHIELD agents.
I am more recently trying to learn more on a joint task force set up, but I admit I don't still know enough of how those are set up.
The Joes rarely operate in Europe or North America. I see them chasing down terrorists in their hideouts or acting as advisors in the middle of a war like against ISIS. This is where I see them interacting with Cobra. Cobra is more of a large multi-national private military contractor. This sometimes puts them at odds against the Joes or reluctant allies.
Cobra tends to do the same thing as the Joes but in even uglier places. Places America is not politically ready to get involved with. If say Bashir called them up to cleanup Alleppo then they show up right in the middle of it all. They sometimes get in trouble for being worse than whatever rebel force or narco-terrorists you are trying to get rid of But they get the job done. Then the CGs move in and start setting up lucrative deals for Arbco industries, particularly oil and gas rights and mining. They use the turmoil to help set up a new government with their handpicked cabinet minister on the payroll.
The force that shows up at your door is a locally franchised organization so this is how Cobra avoids trouble when its men act in unsavory ways. Some local guy say the president's cousin buys the rights to one of Cobra's subsidiaries, Red Shadows, Skull Squad, etc. So he takes all the heat if there is any. Next thing you know Skullbuster shows up at your door with a battalion of Range-Vipers, Rock-Vipers, Desert Scorpions and starts cleaning house. Interrogator is there to get whatever information he needs to help root out the terrorists or rebels, and once they get started the local populace usually gets onboard. Some out of fear but mostly because they are seeing results. That being said there is usually a lot of collateral damage and public executions. Fight fire with fire is a Cobra Motto.
That is very similar to how I picture G.I.Joe and Cobra's relationship...at odds with each other and sometimes reluctantly assisting each other. I like that idea of Cobra assisting Syria in their fight against ISIS and the other rebel groups.
In my Joe-verse MARS and Arbco/Cobra have a working relationship where MARS sells weapons to some country and will arrange (via the Iron Grenadiers) to have the shipment stolen. That's where Arbco steps in and offers their services to that country to procure the weapons back. The actual Arbco contractors are unaware of the shady side of this arrangement, however, some of those that go on to join Cobra are aware. My first (and largely incomplete) fanfic has MARS selling weapons to the government of Nigeria. An Iron Grenadier agent secretly meets with a Nigerian arms dealer (who sells his goods to Boko Harum) to steal the weapons shipment. Upon "hearing" about it Arbco submitted their services to retrieve the weapons back. With some shady business conducted by Destro and Scarface though Arbco is passed up the job in favor of G.I.Joe.
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