SOFIC NEWS: Special Operators Must Learn to Exist Without ‘Tethers’
5/16/2022
By Stew Magnuson
TAMPA, Florida — After two decades of moving relatively freely in Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S. military’s elite commandos are going to have to learn to operate in contested environments without being “tethered” to lines of support.
Those lines of support can be anything from traditional logistical systems to radio waves that allow special operations forces and their equipment to link back to higher headquarters, officials in change of developing technology at Special Operations Command said May 16.
“The term ‘contested logistics’ is at the very top of a lot of our discussions right now,” Col. Joseph Blanton, SOCOM program executive officer for SOF support activity, told reporters at the Special Operations Forces Industry Conference in Tampa, Florida.
https://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/articles/2022/5/16/special-operators-must-learn-to-exist-without-tethers
