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Special Forces

Operation ENDURING FREEDOM RECONDO School

by Thomas Doherty

Journal Article | May 15, 2013 02:30 AM | Comments(1)

Rebuilding our special reconaissance capability.

Interoperability: Merging the Organizational Cultures of Special Forces and the Infantry

Journal Article | April 22, 2013 02:30 AM | Comments(0)

Interoperability is a function of leadership, hardship, and time. To quickly achieve it, focus on individual personalities, understand that everyone has value, and exercise mission command.

Irregular Warfare: Network Warfare and the Venture Capital Green Beret

by EM Burlingame

Journal Article | April 4, 2013 02:30 AM | Comments(33)

As SOCOM takes on the task of addressing population-centric conflict post-Iraq/Afghanistan, it must field a new type of SOF Operator--master of the full-spectrum of the human domain and...

VSO versus DSO

by Christopher Wilkerson

Journal Article | March 19, 2013 02:25 AM | Comments(1)

Do the terrain and the friendly and enemy situations allow stability operations at the village or district level?

Military Medical Assets as Counterinsurgency Force Multipliers: A Call to Action

by David S. Kauvar and Tucker A. Drury

Journal Article | November 28, 2012 05:30 AM | Comments(9)

It is time to rethink the role of conventional U.S. military medical assets in COIN operations.

COIN and Other Four-Letter Words: Interview with AfPak Hand Major Fernando Lujan

by Octavian Manea and Fernando Lujan

Journal Article | July 17, 2012 04:25 AM | Comments(6)

This type of massive COIN effort is only one extreme of a long continuum of policy options. If we want to keep COIN from becoming a 'dirty word,' we need to leave room for alternate,...

Irregular Warfare and the Two Minds of the Venture Capital Green Beret

by EM Burlingame

Journal Article | June 20, 2012 10:11 AM | Comments(7)

Harnessing the Disruptive Mind of the entrepreneur and investor with the System Mind of the military and government at the tactical and strategic level of special operations.

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