Mon, 03/29/2021 - 3:33pm
Why Special Operations Oversight Should Matter to Every American
by Clay Fuller
Everyday Americans are on the frontlines of the irregular warfare campaigns in the era of Great Power Competition—and these hardworking Americans may not even know it. Every community, from coastal cities to Appalachian small towns, is a grey zone attack away from an adversary and losing critical systems for law enforcement, public utilities, or healthcare. The future is here where one stroke of the keyboard of a foreign adversary like China or other revisionist and rogue powers could send our criminal justice systems into chaos by erasing systems that store evidence or case information. One key stroke could hold the water supply of a community hostage. One key stroke could condemn a critically ill patient in a hospital to death. Not only would this act edge the United States closer to war, it would devastate the American community that it was perpetrated upon. It is not an exaggeration that our foreign adversaries have a gun to the head of municipal and local governments in the United States—who would have no power or ability to respond. So who is best positioned to contribute an element of deterrence and address the huge challenges of Great Power Competition? How do we make them more effective at this monumental task?
https://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/why-special-operations-oversight-should-matter-every-american
