The U.S. Army Has Quietly Created a New Commando Division
11.29.2014 at 10:31pm
The U.S. Army Has Quietly Created a New Commando Division by Joseph Trevithick, War is Boring
On Sept. 30, the U.S. Army unceremoniously stood up a new headquarters—the 1st Special Forces Command—at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. The division-level unit brings together more than 15,000 Green Berets and other special troops in a single new organization.
Previously, the Army’s Special Operations Command had directly controlled all of these troops plus others on a wide range of missions. The idea behind the new HQ is to assemble a force specifically tailored for dealing with what the Pentagon calls “hybrid warfare.”…
