In Game of Strategy, SOCOM Outsmarting Conventional Military
Of the three primary missions the Defense Department expects to tackle in the coming decade – protect the homeland, work with allies to increase global security, and prepare for a major conflict – at least one is being cornered by U.S. Special Operations Command.
The Pentagon’s forecast of how the military will fight wars in the future – detailed in the 2014 Quadrennial Defense Review – continues to hammer on the idea that U.S. forces can’t do it all, and should train foreign allies to help fight insurgencies and terrorist groups.
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SOCOM’s growing influence inside the Pentagon over the foreign-troop training mission has been years in the making, said Russell Rumbaugh, defense budget analyst at the Stimson Center.
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