As global power dynamics change, so does the role of American Special Operations Forces. SOCOM is tasked with keeping up with those changes to keep SOF relevant and effective. Presented here is part of their plan to do just that.
The days of the War on Terror are coming to an end.
Here s What You Need to Remember: The U.S. military must heed the lessons learned over the past seventy-five years and accept the so-called “irregular character” of the conflicts it enters. Cohen noted, “Our doctrine, acquisition and training for conflict is excessively focused on maintaining deterrence or winning the high-end conventional war fight, when the simple reality is that modern warfare is not nearly that clear-cut.”
Last month U.S. and Ukrainian special operations forces (SOF) took part in a training exercise dubbed Fiction Urchin, which was part of a multinational exercise that involved ten allied and partner nations. It consisted of special forces operators conducting fast rope insertion and extraction systems the typical “all in a day’s work” type of exercises that we’ve come to expect from our special forces.