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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
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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.
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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As counterterror missions fade, special operations finds time to fix its own problems April 30 Air Force special tactics and combat rescue officer candidates perform push-ups in the water during an assessment and selection process at Hurlburt Field, Fla., March 25, 2021. (Tech. Sgt. Sandra Welch/Air Force) A sea change is coming to special operations. After 20 years of relentless combat operations, organizations are taking a hard look at their mission sets, who is in the formations and how the job treats them. Special Operations Command has openly discussed its imminent shift from counter-terror to near-peer competition in recent years, but at the same time, another major shift is underway in the military writ large: a new focus on attracting and retaining women in every career field, a renewed focus on preventing and responding to sexual assault and sexual harassment, and the first department-wide efforts to crack down on extremism.