On May 1, 1952, the U.S. Army opened the special operations training center and school that still trains most of its special operations forces today. The
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Special Forces to build ‘influence artillery’ for online campaigns February 18 1st Special Forces Command is creating an Information Warfare Center that will specialize in tailored influence messaging. (Staff Sgt. Joseph Tolliver/Army) WASHINGTON To stay ahead of rapidly moving threats in the information space, 1st Special Forces Command is building an Information Warfare Center that will specialize in “influence artillery rounds.” Critical to Special Forces’ role is deploying to remote locations while still being able to effectively message portions of a population. The center, to be based at Fort Bragg, will consolidate the command’s psychological operations capabilities and will wrap around other information related capabilities such as cyber and space, Col. Ed Croot, chief of staff at 1st Special Forces Command, said in a Feb. 17 virtual presentation for AFCEA TechNet Augusta.