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SOF resource limitations may require SOF to collaborate with conventional forces in fighting insurgents and terrorists, but SOF should retain the lead in the collaborative relationship and control when and where conventional forces are used in support. This is because SOF’s intrinsic attributes—to the extent they have and safeguard them—give them a

They’re civil and military leaders, and they’re more like a hands-on president who enacts laws and commands the army.

Fred Pushies’s formulaic overview of MARSOC since then is one of the few solid books available on the newly formed marine SOF units (Pushies 2011).

On most political issues, Washington saw eye to eye with Knox, who had labored hard for the new Constitution. But Knox was destined to be the least capable of the three department heads. He worked diligently, gave Washington unquestioning loyalty, and promptly responded to requests, but he was not an original policy thinker and was relatively passi

SOF as we now know them emerged from the ashes of Desert One. The official report on the rescue attempt concluded it had failed not because it was infeasible or too complicated. It pointed instead to such things as the number of helicopters used, aspects of command and control, and concerns for security that prevented a full-scale rehearsal. It als

Ben-Gurion endeavored to base the Israeli Air Force and Intelligence Corps on a primary nucleus of regular service personnel, so that they will be able to deliver a prompt initial response.