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SHOULD I STAY OR SHOULD I GO? STAY-BEHIND FORCE DECISION-MAKING
BRIAN PETIT, COMMENTARY
NOVEMBER 8, 2023
The grinding Ukrainian military offensive during the summer of 2023 has been a frightful sight for undersized nations fashioning their own ...
Ten Surprising Lessons For Special Operations Forces From The First 20 Months Of Putin’s Full-Scale Invasion Of Ukraine
ByThomas R. Searle, Christopher Marsh, and Brian Petit
ABSTRACTThis article provides ten surprising lessons for Special Operations Forces (SOF) from ...
Report: Special operations forces need to rethink language training
Special operators speak 80 languages across the military but often don't sustain that skills, a new report says.
BY PATTY NIEBERG | PUBLISHED NOV 1, 2023
US. Green Berets and elite Marine special ...
How War in Grenada Built U.S. SOCOM
In the aftermath of Iran-Grenada, several congressional leaders took the initiative to reorganize the Pentagon’s special operations forces, culminating in the creation of U.S. Special Operations Command in 1987.
by Forrest L. ...
SOCOM Wants New Targeting Tools for Urban Battles
U.S. Special Operations Command is on the hunt for new non-line-of-sight targeting systems.
Special tactics operators conduct close-quarters battle training at Davis-Monthan AFB, Arizona, Jan. 27, 2023. (U.S. ...
This article provides ten surprising lessons for Special Operations Forces (SOF) from the first year-and-a-half of Russia’s criminal and ill-advised full-scale invasion of Ukraine. These lessons range from the tactical to the grand strategic, and collectively help explain how Ukraine and NATO managed to “boil Putin’s frog” in the years between 2014 and 2022.
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