by aelkus | Jul 15, 2013 | Monitor
Thanks to Mark Safranski, I read Indian LTG Prakosh Katosh’s essay “Optimizing the Potential of Special Forces.” It is, Mark implies, a tour-de-horizon of a defense policy that has failed to protect the Indian state. He paints a dire picture of...
by Robert Tollast | Jul 1, 2013 | Monitor
By: Robert Tollast As Iraq appears to unravel, it is only right to continue the debate about counterinsurgency, the appropriate application of landpower, and the expanding role of Special Operations in the US…
by Grant Martin | Jun 17, 2013 | Monitor
By: Grant Martin Today SOF are being asked to do more than ever before and with increasingly vague and hubristic-sounding missions and concepts. New paradigms are needed.
by Thomas Doherty | May 15, 2013 | Monitor
By: Thomas Doherty Rebuilding our special reconaissance capability.
by EM Burlingame | Apr 4, 2013 | Monitor
By: EM Burlingame 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 skilled at engaging...