DA4371 Special Operations and Strategic Competition
This course considers special operations in this new era of strategic competition. Emphasis is given to the relationship between policy, strategy, and special operations (relationship between ends, ways, and means). Discussing the calls for transformation made by ASD SO/LIC and USSOCOM senior leadership encourages participants to think more holistically about how special operations could remain a key strategic tool while moving forward and encountering the complex 21st-century security challenges presented by strategic competition. Contemporary case studies will provide the principal means of analysis to gain insights into emerging special operations theory, including the notion that special operations in strategic competition are conducted across all domains of military operations. Special attention is given to the SOF-Space-Cyber Triad, which enables the generation of cross-dimensional strategic effects along the spectrum of integrated deterrence, crisis, and conflict.
Lecture Hours
4
Lab Hours
0