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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
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"There are more instances of the abridgment of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations"
James Madison
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