Full Post: https://sof.news/update/20210216/
Topics Include:
-Possible retirement of the Navy's Mk VI Small Boats
-Belgian SF gender mixed unit capabilities
-SOF History
-Ireland looking at a Resistance Operating Concept
-The Small Wars Journal Article "Building Partner Capacity is Great Power Competition"
-Podcasts
-And much more
A new subcommittee under the U.S. House Armed Services Committee has been formed. The Subcommittee on Intelligence and Special Operations will focus on specific activity areas of the Department of Defense. The new subcommittee with be chaired by Representative Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) He is a Marine Corps combat veteran who deployed to Iraq in 2005 for an eight month long deployment.
The Subcommittee on Intelligence and Special Operations (ISO) will have the following jurisdiction:
There are currently seven permanent subcommittees of the U.S. House Armed Services:
It appears that the Intelligence and Emerging Threats and Capabilities Subcommittee has been replaced by two new subcommittees: Cyber, Innovative Technologies, and Information Systems and the Intelligence and Special Operations Subcommittees.
https://sof.news/update/20210125/
Topics Include:
Chris Miller's Last Days in the Pentagon
SEAL sentenced to prison
Training Updates
Joint Concepts with Marine Reconnaissance units and Air Force Special Tactics
Upcoming Events
Book Recommendations
Videos and Interviews
Episode: https://www.spreaker.com/user/sofcast/10-csm-ret-rick-lamb-green-beret-and-ran?utm_medium=widget&utm_source=user%3A12926561&utm_term=episode_title
CSM (Ret) Lamb is a former Ranger and Green Beret. In this episode he discusses the Iranian Hostage Rescue, operations along the DMZ, the Invasion of Panama, Operation Gothic Serpant (Black Hawk Down) in Somalia, and serving in Haiti.
SOFcast: https://www.socom.mil/SOFcast/Pages/default.aspx
SOFcast is the offical U.S. Special Operations Command podcast, hosted by Command Chief Master Sergeant Smith (current USSOCOM Command Senior Enlisted Leader) and Sergeant Major Parrish, the Senior Enlisted Leader for the USSOCOM Preservation of the Force and Family program.
Podcast: https://warroom.armywarcollege.edu/podcasts/usasoc-strategy/
In the realm of national security very few elements ever remain stagnant, and those that do are relegated to irrelevance. As the environment changes, capabilities are developed, motivations shift, loyalties fade, new players rise and old players fall. In order to account for those changes new guidance flows downward from the highest levels of leadership increasing in detail and specificity as it descends to the lowest echelons of the military. Bryan Groves joins A BETTER PEACE editor Ron Granieri to discuss U.S. Army Special Operations Command’s (USASOC) latest iteration of its command strategy. In the words of the Commanding General, LTG Francis Beaudette, this strategy “charts our course to drive evolutionary changes in how we man, train and equip our formations in the Information Age.” Bryan and Ron examine how USASOC forces intend to execute their mission in support of the national defense amongst general purpose, joint and coalition forces against ever changing adversaries.
The Army Special Operations Forces Strategy can be found online here or a PDF can be directly downloaded here.
LTC(P) Bryan Groves is the Chief of the Strategic Planning Division, U.S. Army Special Operations Command.
Ron Granieri is an Associate Professor of History at the U.S. Army War College and the Editor of A BETTER PEACE.
The views expressed in this presentation are those of the speakers and do not necessarily reflect those of the U.S. Army War College, U.S. Army, or Department of Defense.
Indo-Pacific Terrorism, Special Operations, and the Coronavirus
Dr. Zachary Abuza (National War College), COL(r) David Maxwell (Foundation for Defense of Democracies), and Commander Alexander Bein (US Special Operations Command) discussed current terrorism and Special Operations Forces (SOF) dynamics for the Indo-Pacific region in the era of the coronavirus. The webinar was moderated by DKI APCSS Professor Lumpy Lumbaca.
