direct action http://archive.smallwarsjournal.com/ en Green Berets: Rebuilding the Guerrilla Leader Identity http://archive.smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/green-berets-rebuilding-guerrilla-leader-identity <span>Green Berets: Rebuilding the Guerrilla Leader Identity</span> <span><span>SWJED</span></span> <span>Fri, 02/08/2019 - 5:22am</span> <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field--item">Direct Action and Unconventional Warfare - one is in the movies, and the other is in the history books. Perhaps oversimplified, the differences between these two mission sets are at the heart of the Green Beret’s identity crisis. Both are clearly doctrinal Special Forces missions, but one dominates our cultural zeitgeist, while the other is relegated to a few weeks in the Q course and knowing glances at Semi-Annual Training Briefs.</div> <ul class="links inline list-inline"><li class="node-readmore"><a href="/index.php/jrnl/art/green-berets-rebuilding-guerrilla-leader-identity" rel="tag" title="Green Berets: Rebuilding the Guerrilla Leader Identity" hreflang="en">Read more<span class="visually-hidden"> about Green Berets: Rebuilding the Guerrilla Leader Identity</span></a></li><li class="comment-forbidden"></li><li></li></ul> Fri, 08 Feb 2019 10:22:19 +0000 SWJED 114558 at http://archive.smallwarsjournal.com Tito’s “Birthday” Surprise: Operation Rösselsprung - Early Problems and Lessons of Direct Action Operations http://archive.smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/tito%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%9Cbirthday%E2%80%9D-surprise-operation-r%C3%B6sselsprung-early-problems-and-lessons-of-direct-acti <span>Tito’s “Birthday” Surprise: Operation Rösselsprung - Early Problems and Lessons of Direct Action Operations </span> <span><span>Peter J. Munson</span></span> <span>Thu, 05/31/2012 - 5:46am</span> <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field--item"><p> A direct action case study from World War II.</p> </div> <ul class="links inline list-inline"><li class="node-readmore"><a href="/jrnl/art/tito%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%9Cbirthday%E2%80%9D-surprise-operation-r%C3%B6sselsprung-early-problems-and-lessons-of-direct-acti" rel="tag" title="Tito’s “Birthday” Surprise: Operation Rösselsprung - Early Problems and Lessons of Direct Action Operations " hreflang="en">Read more<span class="visually-hidden"> about Tito’s “Birthday” Surprise: Operation Rösselsprung - Early Problems and Lessons of Direct Action Operations </span></a></li><li class="comment-comments"><a href="/jrnl/art/tito%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%9Cbirthday%E2%80%9D-surprise-operation-r%C3%B6sselsprung-early-problems-and-lessons-of-direct-acti#comments" title="Jump to the first comment." hreflang="en">3 comments</a></li><li class="comment-new-comments"><a href="/taxonomy/term/1241/feed" class="hidden" title="Jump to the first new comment." data-history-node-last-comment-timestamp="1352045959" data-history-node-field-name="comment"></a></li><li class="comment-forbidden"></li><li></li></ul> Thu, 31 May 2012 09:46:07 +0000 Peter J. Munson 12788 at http://archive.smallwarsjournal.com