Less Door-Kicking, More Influencing: The Changing Role of Special Operators
12 May 2020
Military.com | By Matthew Cox
The head of U.S. Special Operations Command said Tuesday that winning the fights of the future may depend less on door-kickers and more on tech-savvy operators trained for the cyber and information battlespace.
"We still need guys who can kick down the door, that can shoot well, that can jump out of airplanes, that can fly our special operators -- we need all those men and women," Army Gen. Richard Clarke told an audience at the National Defense Industrial Association's vSOFIC 2020 conference.
"But we also need coders. We also need leaders who can apply [artificial intelligence]. ... It may no longer be that the most important person on the mission is actually the Special Forces operator who is kicking down the door, but it could be the cyber operator that the special operations team actually has to get to the environment and make sure that he or she can work his or her cyber tools into the fight."
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