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The selection of John Daniel Caine as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff may signal a new emphasis on irregular warfare, covert and clandestine operations, enabling swifter action with fewer legal constraints and less congressional scrutiny, say former military and senior defense officials who have worked in the intelligence community, special operations, the Defense Department, and the White House.
U.S. surveillance flights cut through the skies probing for fentanyl plants in Mexico. American soldiers string barbed wire along the Southern border. The State Department just designated six Mexican cartels as foreign terrorist organizations (FTO). Donald Trump’s promised war on Mexico’s cartels is ramping up.
As officials and experts are calling for more integration of irregular warfare capabilities to defeat adversaries, a new modern “triad” concept for the U.S. military is being touted as a jumping-off point for deterrence.
When Special Operations Command released a strategy document last year titled the “SOF Renaissance,” it emphasized a framework ‘“tailor made” to face the challenges of a changing strategic landscape. But one area where the command has some ground to cover is its arsenal of unmanned systems, its commander said.
Special Operations Forces (SOF) play a significant role in U.S. military operations. In 1986, Congress, concerned about the status of SOF within overall U.S. defense planning, passed legislation (P.L. 99-661) to strengthen special operations’ position within the defense community and to improve interoperability among the branches of U.S. SOF. These actions included the establishment of U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) as a new unified command.
Just a few years ago, the Special Forces mission set included just 5 basic taskings: Unconventional Warfare, Direct Action, Foreign Internal Defense, Counterterrorism, and Special Reconnaissance. Why have the five basic missions, for which the Special Forces Regiment was adequately staffed and trained, proliferated into nine expansive missions, for which the Special Forces Regiment is understaffed and inexperienced?
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