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Internal study highlights struggle over control of America s special ops forces

POLITICO Scandals have prompted calls for more oversight of Special Operations Command. U.S. Special Operations Command chief Gen. Richard Clarke listens during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing. | Anna Moneymaker-Pool/Getty Images Link Copied Over the past several years, America’s special operations forces have been rocked by a string of scandals drug trafficking, murder and multiple investigations involving war crimes. As the cultural chaos unfolded, top civilian Pentagon officials moved to exert more control over America’s most elite military units. But now, the academic arm of the military command that directly oversees those troops is quietly conducting a study that critics say is designed to help fend off additional efforts to increase civilian oversight of the community.

Air Force Special Operations Command competition solicits airmen s ideas for US security

By JIM THOMPSON | The Northwest Florida Daily News | Published: May 4, 2021 WASHINGTON (Tribune News Service) Many airmen within the ranks of Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) are evil geniuses who are demonstrating the capability to improve the Hurlburt Field-headquartered special operations arm, their commander told a U.S. Senate subcommittee last week. Lt. Gen. James Slife made the lighthearted but serious remark during a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee s Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities. The hearing was convened largely to give the subcommittee s members a sense of how the nation s special operations forces are pivoting from the counterterrorism work that has dominated their mission for the past 20 years to the great power competition outlined in the latest national defense strategy. That strategic shift sees peer and near-peer adversaries like Russia and China as the dominant threats to U.S. security.

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