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In the intricate landscape of Afghanistan's conflict, Special Operations Forces (SOF) played a pivotal role in shaping the effectiveness and dynamics of local defense forces. Their involvement highlights both the potential and the limitations of SOF in unconventional warfare.
Given the rapidly deteriorating conditions at the U.S. border with Mexico and only tenuous U.S.–Mexico cooperation, it is appropriate for the U.S. to engage in serious planning and preparation for an enhanced and scalable military role in confronting the growing threats at the border.
NATO countries have been ramping up their militaries to prepare for a potential shooting war. But the next worldwide conflict will also include many unconventional war strategies.
In an era of increasing global complexity and competition, the United States faces unprecedented challenges that require a fundamental reassessment of its grand strategy. As defined by Sir Basil Liddell Hart, the role of grand strategy is, “to coordinate and direct all the resources of a nation, or band of nations, towards the attainment of the political object of the war—the goal defined by fundamental policy.”
The post-Global War on Terror (GWOT) United States (US) Army Special Forces (SF) Regiment faces a unique opportunity to rejuvenate its identity as it seeks to find balance with the overarching US Army’s evolving concentration on irregular warfare (IW), Multi-Domain Operations (MDO), and large-scale combat operations (LSCO) against peer and near-peer adversaries.
The Goldwater-Nichols Act has resulted in "a pervasive pattern within the military of neglect of long-term defense procurement strategies and requirements," the Mitchell Institute argues in a new policy paper.
The Defense Department has been unable to adequately prepare for great power competition with Russia and China due in large part to the inability of service chiefs to prioritize funding and other resources away from today’s needs to those of tomorrow, argues a new policy paper from the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies.
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