Inter Populum: Strategy For A New Era: USSOCOM Takes On Strategic Competition

Lauren Hickok and Larson Miller explore the roles and challenges for US Special Operations in Strategic Competition in their new article in Inter Populum.

In a new era of strategic competition, U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) must identify opportunities to out-compete China and Russia when and where it is most crucial, maintaining the U.S. technical edge and strategic advantage. USSOCOM needs a foundation for strategy and policy, and approaches for achieving impact.
The challenge for U.S. strategists is that maintaining the advantage over America’s adversaries will be a costly and complex endeavor. While winning the counterterrorism fight could be done reasonably well with set resources, this is not so for strategic competition, a decades-long competition and defense mobilization potentially on the scale of the Cold War.

From Inter Populum