View Full Version : Special Ops Growth Can Be Managed, Nominees Say
BMT (RIP)
06-14-2007, 02:14
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=46401
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BMT
Ret10Echo
06-14-2007, 03:49
Vice Admiral Olson and Michael Vickers Testimony
http://armed-services.senate.gov/statemnt/2007/June/Olson%2006-12-07.pdf
http://armed-services.senate.gov/statemnt/2007/June/Vickers%2006-12-07.pdf
Ret10Echo
06-14-2007, 04:01
Mr Vickers response to the question concerning SOF Priorities:
o Ensure that the Department develops and expands SOF capabilities, capacities and posture without diluting quality standards, to create a Global Counterterrorism Network capable of winning the Global War on Terrorism that could principally be waged in countries with which the United States is not at war. Doing this will require bringing SOF capabilities and operations into much closer strategic and operational alignment with other government agencies
o Ensure that the Department develops the capabilities to locate, tag and track terrorists and other threats to U.S. interests and that future SOF have the capability to clandestinely infiltrate into, conduct operations within and exfiltrate from denied areas
o Achieve an appropriate balance-- in strategy, resources, and senior leader development-- between indirect and direct approaches to irregular warfare
The Reaper
06-14-2007, 05:20
I see a serious disconnect with reality, a tendency to continue the myopic focus on (and resource allocation to) infil platform procurement, some service conflicts, and a continuation of the preemminence of direct action only forces.
TR
Ret10Echo
06-14-2007, 05:34
I see a serious disconnect with reality, a tendency to continue the myopic focus on (and resource allocation to) infil platform procurement, some service conflicts, and a continuation of the preemminence of direct action only forces.
TR
ASDS at 900 Million (plus) to date.....and DA has always been the sexy role of our sister service so I am not surprised at the focus on DA forces.