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Unbeknownst to many, before the United States held such a tenuous relationship with China, the US military closely worked with Mao Zedong and the founding Communist leaders during World War II, particularly through the shared approach of guerrilla warfare. During that period, the Chinese Communists implemented guerrilla warfare as their primary form of fighting, enabling the Communists to withstand superior weapons and military might by the Japanese and the Nationalist government since 1927.
This push to revitalize our defense industrial base is crucial for conventional military strength. It enhances our nation’s capacity to engage in irregular warfare (IW). The ability to rapidly produce and supply resources ensures that special operations forces and other units engaged in irregular warfare have the tools necessary to maintain a strategic advantage. This includes capabilities in artificial intelligence, electronic warfare, and advanced surveillance systems, among others.
The American military has an asymmetrical advantage over any possible adversary with its special operations community, and the processes are in place to keep that advantage going well into the future, said Chris Maier, the assistant secretary of defense for special operations and low-intensity conflict.
In an era of rising geopolitical tensions, terms like ‘hybrid threats,’ ‘grey zones,’ and ‘proxy warfare’ are frequently used to describe covert and ambiguous operations, suggesting they blur the lines between peace and armed conflict.
US special operators are shifting away from counterterrorism toward peer-adversary conflict.
There are five areas the US special operations community can focus on to best do that, new research says.
These areas harken back to the strengths of special ops in the Cold War and the War on Terror.
As the global landscape shifts into an era of Great Power Competition, characterized by unconventional threats and complex geopolitical dynamics, the need for a reimagined Office of Strategic Services (OSS) framework has never been more pressing. The revival of an OSS 2.0 would empower the Department of Defense (DoD) with enhanced Human Intelligence (HUMINT) capabilities that are critical for navigating the intricacies of Irregular Warfare (IW).
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