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This essay is a food-for-thought on the identity (culture), training and education of special forces (SF). The target audience is the special forces, the emerging wider special operations forces (SOF) community, politicians and key military decision-takers who must wield special forces. Admittedly every nation has its particularities, but many SF throughout the world have common concerns and difficulties when it comes to setting a culture that matches a clear identity. Not in terms of tasks like specialized forces, but in terms of purpose like special forces. Struggling to find a balance betwe...

This essay is a food-for-thought on the identity (culture), training and education of special forces (SF). The target audience is the special forces, the emerging wider special operations forces (SOF) community, politicians and key military decision-takers who must wield special forces. Admittedly every nation has its particularities, but many SF throughout the world have common concerns and difficulties when it comes to setting a culture that matches a clear identity. Not in terms of tasks like specialized forces, but in terms of purpose like special forces. Struggling to find a balance betwe...

India's large and growing internet base has magnified the government's concerns about disinformation, hate speech, and other dangers online.

NEW DELHI - When results for the elections in five states came out last weekend, two English-language television channels, India Ahead and Times Now, decided not to cover them so as to keep the focus on the Covid-19 crisis in the country. Times Now said it was suspending its coverage of the results on May 2 and any potential celebrations "as a symbolic gesture of our disagreement with the untimeliness of this activity." Massive rallies had been held in West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Assam and Puducherry, including by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, as politicians ignored the signs of a second...