Surrogate Forces News Today

The US has a long history of training and arming guerrillas to destabilise countries whose governments it disapproves of — including the Nicaraguan contras and the Syrian Democratic Forces mish-mash of sectarian militants.

"US troops have also trained thousands of Ukrainian troops to fight Russia, despite numerous documented cases of atrocities against civilians and Russian prisoners of war..."

Newly disclosed documents include Special Operations forces directives for managing counterterrorism and irregular warfare surrogate fighters.