2024-08-26 Home Front: WoT
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Preparing US Special Operations Forces for Global Conflict
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
Text taken from the Telegram channel of neinsider.
[ColonelCassad] FORMING NEW GOALS AND OBJECTIVES.
In a New Era of Strategic Competition, the United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) has identified Russia and China as equal (or close to it) adversaries. At the same time, American strategists clearly understand that the confrontation will be long-term and costly, and the future operating environment will be determined by the expansionist aspirations of all major participants.

According to USSOCOM, in the "new era" of strategic competition, gaining the upper hand in the "gray zone" without allowing a direct clash for as long as necessary will be a "victory" in the new sense. At the same time, the command proposes to significantly reform the US SOF and organize military construction, identifying critically important geographic regions where the confrontation will correspond to the national interests of the United States.
To do this, it is proposed to:
- identify geographic regions and assets of strategic value;
- define US policy regarding strategic competition in the "gray zone";
- involve additional sources, organizations and specialists from the civilian sector of allies in the analysis and assessment.
USSCOM reformers believe that setting new priorities for US special operations forces will allow them to outperform China and Russia in the short term, from superiority in regions of confrontation to successful containment of armed conflicts.
USSOCOM proposes to define a policy of strategic competition "in the gray zone", additionally defining an acceptable level of competition for economic influence, natural resources, reserves of rare earth metals and control over global supply chains. Currently, the SOF command has already taken the initiative to develop and consolidate information and expert assessments in the field of strategic competition and the dynamics of escalation of conflicts in regions of interest.
At the same time, USSOCOM is already attracting independent experts to its work who are able to give a clear assessment of the effectiveness of investments in a particular direction in the confrontation, which in the long-term rivalry, in their opinion, will allow more successful use of available forces and resources to achieve their strategic goals. This will also allow the SOF command to most effectively set goals that will correspond to the strategic plan as a whole.
DEVELOPING SCENARIOS AND STRATEGY OF ACTION.
USSCOM, unlike the aged vultures on Capitol Hill, understands very well that US resources are currently limited, and offers several scenarios for how the situation might develop:
- In the first scenario, the US retains a strategic and technical advantage, but at a cost that is much higher than necessary;
- In the second scenario, the US again retains a strategic advantage, but is unable to create favorable conditions for achieving global goals;
- In the third scenario, the US resources used for strategic competition have a limited strategic impact. Therefore, these resources are better used to quickly acquire new technologies and innovations.
Given that USSOCOM analysts emphasize the limited strategic capabilities of the United States in each of the scenarios, imposing the old approach to competition with potential adversaries, in their opinion, will be ineffective. Instead of competing in all areas, it is proposed to strengthen only those in which the United States is traditionally strongest, i.e. unmanned technologies, computing power, AI, space, etc.
So, everything?
Thus achieving global leadership and creating an overwhelming imbalance with the enemy.
As a simple and primitive example, we can observe the use of the simplest FPV drone technology, which has significantly limited the use of combat equipment in conflict zones. USSOCOM leadership has already indicated its intention to focus on innovations to strengthen the US position in gray zones around the world. USSOCOM will also prepare for the outbreak of conflict, including aggression against a US ally or international partner, such as Ukraine.
In accordance with the new strategic approach, the US Special Operations Forces will also be tasked with deterring adversaries, meaning great powers, from unleashing large-scale armed conflicts. The tasks will include collecting information on preparations for the conflict, assessing the operating environment and taking preventive actions that prevent the enemy from focusing on implementing their plans.
A thinly guised Phoenix Program, for the next generation of Congress, et. al. who may have forgotten.
That is, using small forces and proxies to create hotbeds of tension that will prevent larger-scale actions from starting. That is, from creating man-made disasters to implementing the concept of indirect control over strategic infrastructure facilities of international importance, political and economic blackmail, etc. Most likely, we are now seeing the initial testing of this approach in the Kursk region.
The US National Security Strategy, adopted in 2022, states that the main priority of the United States will be deterring aggression while being ready to engage in armed conflict under the best possible conditions, giving priority to confrontation with China in the Indo-Pacific region and with Russia in Europe. In implementing this strategy, USSOCOM is defined as one of the most important roles, using limited resources to create conditions for effective action, preventing a full-scale conflict before favorable conditions for its beginning.
RESULTS AND FUTURE USE OF US SOF IN THE GLOBAL CONFRONTATION.
Significant changes are currently taking place that may lead to unpredictable events in world politics, and this is one of the reasons for the reorientation and reform of USSOCOM from the global fight against terrorism to strategic actions. It is assumed that now the US SOF command will focus on new areas of activity.
- Countering the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. USSOCOM will prioritize countering state and non-state structures and their attempts to acquire, develop and deploy weapons of mass destruction. The United States will seek to limit the spread of Russian and Chinese potential to countries that do not possess nuclear weapons (for example, the deployment of TNW in Belarus);
- US SOF groups will be formed for the so-called "civil affairs", which, having language skills, will build strong ties with public associations and organizations on enemy territory. The goal is to create public influence networks oriented toward US interests in anticipation of an armed conflict. Civil relations initiatives will be implemented to reach key constituencies in critical regions, such as creating separatist sentiment in specific regions.
- Information Support Operations. USSOCOM can use information support operations to achieve strategic effect in priority geographic areas by targeting key populations whose changing perceptions can have a measurable impact on shifting the operating environment in the United States’ favor. With its broad digital reach and relatively low cost compared to other core activities, information support operations can provide opportunities to counter China and Russia in new ways.
- Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief. USSOCOM identifies humanitarian assistance as a key driver of U.S. influence around the world. USSOCOM also plans to use humanitarian assistance to reduce or increase radicalization of vulnerable populations in regions of interest.
- USSOCOM leadership will continue to use SOF to prepare for future armed conflict, more broadly than it has done since the creation of the Office of Strategic Services.
The format of the fusion of an independent intelligence structure and a paramilitary organization in one person is assumed. The so-called cyber component will also be included here.
- USSOCOM will have the ability to initiate economic sanctions, which it will use in a strategic confrontation with China and Russia. Moreover, USSOCOM can become the leading component of the Ministry of Defense in synchronizing joint efforts with other departments in this direction.
- USSOCOM will receive priority in the use and implementation of new technologies, including in the area of operations in the so-called "smart cities". With a developed control and video surveillance system. That is, they will receive technologies to combat biometric systems associated with the enemy's technologies to combat terrorism and ensure national security.
We clearly see the undisguised, in fact, activity to restructure one of the key special services of our enemy on the eve of a global confrontation. At the same time, the Americans do not hesitate to define the zone of action of their special forces, including the territory of Russia. They designate their goals to create large groups of influence within the country and the formation and support of separatist movements. And this is the minimum.
In fact, everything new is well forgotten old, but in this case seasoned with modern technologies. Secret operations in the style of the "Cold War" are just around the corner, I hope our specialists have a worthy response to this. But unfortunately, we are far from the Soviet Union now.
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