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In a broad generalization, it is safe to say that, in developed societies, Impulsive-Red Organizations persist only at the fringes of legal activity. Conformist-Amber is still heavily present in government agencies, the military, religious organizations, and public school systems. Achievement-Orange is clearly the dominant paradigm of business corp

This specialist unit, under the command of Avraham Arnan, was subordinated to the director of AMAN and evolved, after a few years, into the elite unit known as Sayeret Matkal.

An organization that was at first based around social welfare services, dawah, now added political ambitions and jihad, a holy war.

Experts believe there are about 20,000 nuclear warheads in the world today60—down from a peak of 65,000 in the 1980s. A threat could theoretically come from any of the nine countries that possess nuclear weapons today—even the United States has lost track of eleven of its nuclear weapons throughout its history61—and other countries may be trying to

NEXT STEPS FOR TRANSFORMING SOF In this chapter, we have argued that emerging information age technologies reinforce rather than challenge the conclusion that independent SOF operations, and particularly indirect missions, provide greater strategic value for the United States than support to conventional forces, and especially SOF direct action sup

How Lethal Non-state Actors Innovate Those who study how non-state actors such as terrorists and insurgents innovate rarely take a broad strategic perspective about long-term trends or patterns.44 Scholars have tended to conduct in-depth case studies of individual groups, conflicts, or campaigns,45 and there has been little tying together of those

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