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
Support the Green Beret Foundation on October 3rd
Greetings, I wanted to bring to your attention the Green Beret Foundation Gala and Fundraiser scheduled for 3 Oct 2012 in New York City. This is a great event honoring the brave men who have served so selflessly for all of us. This is our chance to show thanks while providing some financial support to critical services for the wounded and families of honored dead. Please consider purchasing a ticket and forwarding the attached sponsor form to your company for corporate sponsorship. This event will also offer a great opportunity for access and placement to the SF/SOF community for networking as you show your support. This is increasingly important as defense funding continues to decrease but SOF budgets will likely maintain their funding. Please let me know if I could … Read entire article »
Filed under: Green Beret Foundation, Special Forces
Casebook on Revolutionary Warfare and Insurgency Volume II: 1962-2009
Received the below from COL (ret) Dave Maxwell. I was able to paste the link into web browser and successfully downloaded the electronic version of “Casebook on Revolutionary Warfare and Insurgency Volume II: 1962-2009″. This is a must for every student of Unconventional Warfare and Irregular Warfare. This is for anyone who is interested in studying as well as operating in the Human Domain (and with an interest in Unconventional Warfare, Irregular Warfare, Insurgency and Counterinsurgency). At this link (to my public dropbox) you can download the casebook (888 pages and about 15-19 MB depending on how it downloads for you) that has been produced in partnership between the US Army Special Operations Command and The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab National Security Analysis Department. This has been a 4 year project … Read entire article »
Filed under: COIN, Defense Policy, FID, Special Forces, UW
Warfare Center Welcomes Special Forces CSM (ret.) William (Billy) Waugh
WarfareCenter.com is honored to have Billy Waugh agree to post some anecdotes of his experiences throughout 50 years of service to this nation. William “Billy” Waugh (born December 1, 1929), is a retired American Special Forces Sergeant Major and Central Intelligence Agency Paramilitary Operations Officer who served more than 50 years between the U.S. Army’s Green Berets and the CIA’s Special Activities Division. He was awarded 8 purple hearts for operations in Vietnam along with a Silver Star and 4 Bronze Stars. Billy is credited with finding and pulling close target reconnaissance on Carlos the Jackal in the Sudan that directly led to his capture. In his 70s, Billy infiltrated into Afghanistan with a Special Forces “A” team to conduct operations soon after 9/11. Billy is a member of the … Read entire article »
Filed under: COIN, FID, Special Forces
Misreported or Mispoken…Kim Jung-un Will Take It – Duffy Sends
Hope all had a safe Memorial Day weekend. I am been quite lax with my sendings, no excuse really. I was at SOFIC last week which was an excellent time of seeing old friends, making a little rain, and raising some money for the Green Beret Foundation. While there, controversy erupted after an article by David Axe was posted on the attributed remarks by BG Neil Tolley, SOCKOR CG. Now, I was not present for the remarks so not able to shed light on what was said or in what context. Really doesn’t matter at this point as the damage is done. Below is an email I received from my good friend, former Green Beret COL (ret) Dave Maxwell. Dave has served with 1st Group guys and has had a … Read entire article »
Filed under: Defense Policy, Intelligence, Politics, Special Forces
Duffy Sends 18 April 2012 – IMPORTANT!!! Read Before Invasion…
I chose Roger Carstens article on considerations before intervening in Syria mainly as it lays out a checklist on requirements prior to any decision to enter the fray. While not necessarily a fan of check lists as each conflict is different, at least Roger lays out a model to consider where I’m not aware of one existing. Dr Rebecca Johnson does lay out nicely the tenets for justifiable war in her draft remarks here http://endeavortopersevere.wordpress.com/2012/04/16/some-thoughts/, but in our ADD world I think Roger’s bumper sticker approach will at least remind folks that there should be at least some sort of guideline before engagement. Every pundit should have these simple rules tacked up on their cubicle, in particularly the UN to temper R2P (responsibility to protect) desire that would have intervention ongoing in … Read entire article »
Filed under: COIN, Defense Policy, FID, Special Forces, UW
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
Support the Green Beret Foundation
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
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