Sublime

At the same time, SOCOM’s lead role in countering violent extremists and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) will continue, even if they are no longer accorded the highest priority for the U.S. government. SOF will need to maintain its focus on these problems even though conventional forces are refocusing on peer competitors.

Ronald Fry’s Hammerhead Six: How Green

Lieutenant General Walter Krueger, Eisenhower’s new commander, was an amalgam of Fox Conner and Kenyon Joyce—a military intellectual who relished leading troops in the field. Universally regarded as “a soldier’s soldier,” Krueger was a combat infantryman at heart. He was also widely respected as one of the Army’s best educated and most perceptive

Linda Robinson’s One Hundred Victories (Robinson 2014) covers SOF operations in Afghanistan between 2010 and 2013,

Socio-technological change provided another macro-driver of Western military change. By the 1990s, it was becoming increasingly clear that new information and communication technologies (ICT), combined with precision strike technologies, had the potential to transform the conduct of warfare. Already a decade before Soviet military writers had begun