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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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The tributes to the late President Idriss Deby just poured in last week – especially from Western leaders. And boy were the condolences nauseating – at least to anyone vaguely familiar with Chad and its longtime strongman, or those even faintly fond of decency. The worst of it came – unsurprisingly and unapologetically – from the country’s former (officially) and persistent (de facto) colonial masters in Paris. Coming right on the heels of Deby’s – still hazy
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They use night vision and high-speed maneuver to launch small targeted boat attacks under cover of darkness, swim underwater for long distances to approach enemy shores, conduct clandestine reconnaissance operations and confront enemy fire amid hostage rescue or high-value target
attack missions … to cite just a few of the high-risk, high-casualty missions expected of Naval and Marine Corps Special Operations Forces preparing for major maritime warfare.
Given the last several decades of U.S. military war campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan, many are likely to regard Special Operations Forces such as Navy SEALs or Special Naval Warfare units as primarily