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For more than 20 years after 9/11, United States special operations forces were primarily engaged in counterinsurgency campaigns ...
As the U.S. national security establishment grapples with the change of the global environment from the post-Cold War U.S.-led unipolar world to a multipolar one, much of the investment of capital – fiscal and intellectual – has been on large scale combat operations between peer nations. Yet, if the past is prologue, much of the competition, and even conflict, between great powers will likely fall into the category of Irregular Warfare. How to approach the Irregular Warfare problem today presents significant challenges and great opportunities. In the DOD, the United States Special Operat...
As the U.S. national security establishment grapples with the change of the global environment from the post-Cold War U.S.-led unipolar world to a multipolar one, much of the investment of capital – fiscal and intellectual – has been on large scale combat operations between peer nations. Yet, if the past is prologue, much of the competition, and even conflict, between great powers will likely fall into the category of Irregular Warfare. How to approach the Irregular Warfare problem today presents significant challenges and great opportunities. In the DOD, the United States Special Operat...
America's experience in the Philippines during the 1899-1902imperial wars showcases senior and junior leaders' ability to adaptand innovate to local conditions, to recognize the nature ofinsurgency, and to develop effective counterinsurgency methods andpolicies. The lack of attention to stability operations in today'smilitary has had increasingly serious consequences for U.S.military policy.
Bulgaria's special forces have teamed up with the Royal Marines for their largest UK deployment in a decade.