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Offline rangerrebew

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Special ops leaders eye alarming levels of adversary collaboration
By Todd South
 Dec 18, 2024
 

Adversaries of the United States have ramped up partnerships, both in combat and influence operations, in ways that may require the unique intervention abilities of the special operations community to avoid conflict.

Christopher Maier, the outgoing assistant secretary for Special Operations-Low-Intensity Conflict, said today at a Center for a New American Security event that SOF troops have recently increased work in the competition and crisis phases that often precede an armed conflict.
 

The fate of Army Special Operations Forces
The most likely combat is irregular warfare. The Army may cut its lead forces for that kind of fight.
By Todd South
“Progress in recent years has been expanding that aperture to look at competition and crisis as warfighting challenges as opposed to what was often the case in an exercise or tabletop, where we ... fast-forward through [and say], ‘A bunch of things happen, there were some diplomatic things, a little bit of SOF things and that’s war,’” Maier said.

https://www.defensenews.com/news/your-military/2024/12/18/special-ops-leaders-eye-alarming-levels-of-adversary-collaboration/
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Re: Special ops leaders eye alarming levels of adversary collaboration
« Reply #1 on: January 06, 2025, 06:31:31 pm »
Um, the Axis of Evil - Russia, North Korea, Iran, and China - is nothing new.  They've been a modern day Legion of Doom for decades.
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Re: Special ops leaders eye alarming levels of adversary collaboration
« Reply #2 on: January 06, 2025, 06:48:31 pm »
And when you're funding your terrorist opposition to the tune of millions upon millions, you're sure helping the cause.
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