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Hunting Bin Laden & Carlos the Jackal
Attached are some slides Billy Waugh provided roughly covering his ops in Sudan against UBL and Carlos the Jackal in the 90’s. He uses these slides in teaching SF troops the fundamentals of close target reconnaissance and man tracking. I recommend Billy’s book “Hunting the Jackal” for a more detailed run down on these ops. I’ve included this post today as the intelligence community has seemingly gotten out of the business of HUMINT collection. Event the CIA seems to be shifting to greater paramilitary operations and drone operations than doing collection. Billy did these ops while with the Agency. For Carlos, he did PID and close target recce until the French Forces were able to do the rendition. Billy Waugh is an American hero and I’m proud to call him a … Read entire article »
Filed under: Intelligence, Special Forces, Terrorism, UW
The Future of Special Operations Beyond Kill and Capture Linda Robinson
I’ve selected Linda Robinson’s article from Foreign Affairs (behind a pay wall so included in entirety below) as it gets to a belief I’ve had since 9/11 in that SOCOM must prioritize Special Warfare to the extent they do Surgical Strike. Funding, authorities, and organization must become a priority for the command if they are to continue the momentum of countering threats in a period of fiscal austerity and in regions where we are less likely to conduct direct actions in other nation’s sovereign territory. This will not be easy as it is difficult to ascertain the immediate results of Special Warfare that our populace and government demand, but we can look to Colombia and the Philippines as successful examples of Special Warfare. The relative low cost of Special Warfare … Read entire article »
Filed under: COIN, Defense Policy, FID, Special Forces, UW
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