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Assistant Secretary of Defense Christopher P. Maier Addresses Crucial Role of Irregular Warfare at the Semi-Annual Irregular Warfare Forum Dec. 5, 2023   Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict, Christopher P. Maier, delivered a ...

Strategic Disruption by Special Operations Forces A Concept for Proactive Campaigning Short of Traditional War by Eric Robinson, Timothy R. Heath, Gabrielle Tarini, Daniel Egel, Mace Moesner IV, Christian Curriden, Derek Grossman, Sale Lilly   Researchers from RAND ...

U.S. SPECIAL OPERATIONS AND THE SHADOWY PROMISE OF IRREGULAR CAMPAIGNS BRIAN PETIT NOVEMBER 21, 2023   American special operations forces, 70,000 strong and drawn from four services (Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps), are engaged on a dizzying number of fronts. These ...

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 ...