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Just my dos centavos, but the worst thing the army did was to make Special Forces an officer branch. When that happened, the Regiment started to make the clockwise circle down the toilet. At that point, officers and their careers had to be managed. How do officer careers get managed? By the creation of "Commands" and "Headquarters." This in turn led to the creation of the inevitable plethora of staff positions that follow. These positions have to justify their existence this is accomplished by churning out a mountain of paperwork. Said paperwork affects those at the operational level the most. The creation of the Special Forces officer branch had the unintended negative consequence on the Regimental NCO corps by giving rise to the political class of senior NCOs. Does the phrase "Bone Clone" ring a bell?
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