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Duffy Send – 26 Mar 12: The Best Doctrine Never Read…SOF FID
As Afghanistan winds down (and not fast enough) I look for our OCONUS engagements to return to pre 9/11 models with foreign internal defense (FID) being the dominate engagement method for all of DoD, in particular SOF. It is encouraging that SOF has excellent doctrine on FID, although I really wish people would read it. It was surprising to learn that within the past year USASOC had briefly considered changing the UW definition yet again to include SOF FID somehow. I would have been curious to see how that would have turned out, but fortunately common sense prevailed and Special Warfare was deemed to be the more apt term to describe USASOC activities. Nevermind that the new UW definition barely has the ink dry and that USASOC just spent a year … Read entire article »
Filed under: COIN, Defense Policy, FID, Special Forces, Training
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NEK is soliciting for donations in support of our action fund raiser for the Green Beret Foundation. Auction is conducted during SOFIC in Tampa this May. If interested in contributing, contact Bonnie Moss at bonnie.moss@nekasg.com. This is one of the primary ways we raise money and good gear is always appreciated. We will work hard to ensure that you or your organization/manufacturer gets credit for what is donated at each event, lending additional visibility and goodwill to the donor. Thank You, Dave Duffy … Read entire article »
Filed under: Special Forces
Duffy Sends 14 March 2012 – 100 Ways to Say the Same Thing…
I chose this article from King’s College’s “Kings of War” web site as it describes a huge pet peeve of mine, the neverending creation of terms to describe Irregular Warfare (which is in itself a new term since ’06). This article barely scratches the surface on the plethora of terms used to describe everything related to conflict beyond what DoD and the greater Defense Industrial Complex thinks of as conventional war. Which is ironic since our history shows that the preponderance of our military engagements is anything but “conventional”. While DoD and TRADOC have a long history of coming up with new terms (read OER Support forms are due so need to contribute something), thanks to the explosion of blog sites and think tanks an entire industry has been created from … Read entire article »
Filed under: Afghanistan, COIN, Defense Policy, Special Forces, UW
Duffy Sends 1 Mar 2012 – Time for a Draft
I believe it is time to Congress to reinstitute the Draft. I don’t base this on the historical reasons ensuring that there are enough uniformed troops to wage our countries wars. On the contrary, I am amazed and incredibly proud that after a decade of war in two theaters that our All Volunteer Force has not broken and continues to uphold the highest traditions of service and valor. In fact, I believe because of their great performance that this contributes to our Congress and President, and by extension society, viewing our military engagements in the abstract since less than one percent of our citizens serve. Thus I feel that there should be a greater burden placed on society for going to war beyond wearing a ribbon and flying a flag. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Defense Policy, Politics
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