Logistical air assets played an important role in the war against terrorism in Afghanistan. Special Forces missions conducted out of forward deployed bases heavily relied on aviation support to conduct their operations. From the early stages of...
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This manual is a dual-Service US Army and US Marine Corps publication introducing new terms and definitions and updating existing definitions as reflected in the latest editions of Army field manuals and Marine Corps doctrinal, warfighting, and...
The importance of the Noncommissioned Officer's role in Special Forces is directly related to the success. The duties and responsibilities of the SF NCO are numerous. Knowing the culture and establishing rapport are critical steps in much that SF...
The Special Forces Noncommissioned Officer faced many unique challenges: training months in a harsh desert environment; tactical leadership of a Coalition Task Force; and instructing inexperience foreign Soldiers, who spoke no English, to conduct...
The purpose of this monograph is to examine the use of indigenous surrogates by both the Republic of South Africa and Rhodesia in Southern Africa's Bush Wars from 1975 to 1989. The Bush Wars are of significance because the use of surrogates in each...
The modem Non Commissioned Officer (NCO) is the true leader on and off the battlefield. The modem Army has transformed over the last 200 years and evolved into an all-volunteer professional Army far superior than that of Armies past. The Army...
Special Forces (SF) Noncommissioned Officers (NCOs) have a long proud history of individual contributions to mission accomplishment and battlefield success. They belong to an organization that is primarily made up of Noncommissioned Officers....
Were we ready? As we boarded a C-17 enroute to Kandahar, Afghanistan the men of 3rd Battalion, 7th Special Forces Group looked and acted ready to go fight the nation’s war, but some leaders secretly asked themselves, did we do everything we could...
This study seeks to identify the doctrine, tactics and techniques unique to employment of light, heavy, and special operations forces as a mixed force. The doctrine, tactics and techniques are applied to a likely contingency scenario of a "Strike...
This monograph addresses the question, "Is the 1999 edition of FM 100-25, Doctrine for Army Special Operations Forces, adequate to integrate the actions of special operations forces (SOF) and conventional forces on the contemporary battlefield?" ...