
“But the potential benefits of such instruments must be carefully weighed against the costs, risks, and likelihood of success. “There may well be specific contexts in which UW and aggressive uses of are appropriate tools for the United States to compel Russia to cease certain activities or to disrupt and degrade its ability to pursue them,” the report found.
Special operations troops should be embedded with allies as part of a “long-term political-military strategy,” as their progress tends to be incremental and measured by the successes of those partner nations in their own strategies. SOF should only engage directly with Russia, through unconventional or information warfare, in rare circumstances. Special Operations Command and the assistant defense secretary for special operations/low-intensity conflict should do regular reviews of Army SOF activities to make sure they are in line with the change in focus to “strategic competition.”. Army doctrine, specifically Multi-Domain Operations, needs to include specific guidance for SOF. In order to be successful, the authors wrote, Army SOF needs a few things: RELATED If Russia started World War III, here’s how it would go down “ARSOF can also be used to disrupt adversary operations in denied environments or to impose costs on adversaries, although the most aggressive uses of ARSOF-unconventional warfare intended to overthrow adversary governments-have traditionally been high-risk activities with relatively low rates of success.” “In conditions of more intensified competition, when the risk of armed conflict is high, ARSOF can help to defend against proxy forces used by U.S. Unlike the CIA or MI6, Russian intelligence operatives didnt have to. situational awareness of conditions on the ground. Zaslon is Russias most secretive special-purpose unit within the Russian external.
So what can Army special operations bring to the fight? By returning to its roots, particularly for Special Forces, Army special operations can work with allies to strengthen their capabilities against foes like Russia, while at the same time giving the U.S. strategic guidance proclaims that the United States has entered a new era of great-power competition, concepts for succeeding in that competition remain underdeveloped,” according to the report.