What’s Wrong With ARSOF?
Part II of IV of “What’s Wrong With SOCOM?”
special operations forces
What’s Wrong With SOCOM?
Part I: JSOC Winning the War Against White SOF and the Problems Massive Bureaucracy Gets You in the Conduct of Irregular Warfare
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Lost Opportunities with a New SOF Career Course
The new career course model is ultimately detrimental to the Special Forces Regiment. It deprives SF captains of some of the best training the Army has to offer.
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Uncloaking the Dagger: Does Adherence to the Geneva Conventions Betray Special Operations Forces?
The United States should petition a reclassification of perfidy from the United Nations to ensure the legal protections and force protection of SOF while conducting clandestine operations.
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SOF, COIN, and the Question of Host Nation Viability: An Interview with Dick Couch
Peter J. Munson
Mon, 07/01/2013 - 3:30am
As Iraq appears to unravel, it is only right to continue the debate about counterinsurgency, the appropriate application of landpower, and the expanding role of Special Operations in the US military.
Acting in the Human Domain, but Educating for the Physical Domains
Today SOF are being asked to do more than ever before and with increasingly vague and hubristic-sounding missions and concepts. New paradigms are needed.
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Operation ENDURING FREEDOM RECONDO School
Rebuilding our special reconaissance capability.
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Irregular Warfare: Network Warfare and the Venture Capital Green Beret
As SOCOM takes on the task of addressing population-centric conflict post-Iraq/Afghanistan, it must field a new type of SOF Operator--master of the full-spectrum of the human domain and skilled at engaging all 7 elements of national power.
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Innovation in Integration: Task Force Iron Ranger and Village Stability Operations in Afghanistan 2010-11
Times of crisis can be a brief window of opportunity for large institutional bureaucracies to overcome jurisdictional boundaries and make changes to business as usual.
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VSO/ALP
Comparing Past and Current Challenges to Afghan Local Defense.