Effective SOF employment: mitigating causes of conflict
dc.contributor.advisor | Tucker, David | |
dc.contributor.author | Cho, Young M.(Dave) | |
dc.contributor.author | Clark, Brady R. | |
dc.contributor.author | Lee, Mark M. | |
dc.contributor.department | Defense Analysis (DA) | |
dc.contributor.secondreader | Lee, Doowan | |
dc.date | Jun-13 | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-08-01T16:51:30Z | |
dc.date.available | 2013-08-01T16:51:30Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2013-06 | |
dc.description.abstract | Following two long wars conducted in Iraq and Afghanistan, the American appetite for large-scale and prolonged stability operations may be diminishing. Consequently, employment of United States Special Operations Forces (SOF) may prove an increasingly attractive alternative for the Department of Defense (DOD) in unstable regions because of its unique capability to operate indirectly and with a minimal footprint, particularly in responding to cases of State failure, which is closely tied to outbreaks of conflict between governments and armed insurgents. Hence, the appropriate employment of SOF will be of critical importance to the achievement of U.S.-led efforts goals-one of which is building partner nation capacity to mitigate causes of conflict or to prevent conflicts from escalating to cause complete state failure. | en_US |
dc.description.distributionstatement | Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited. | |
dc.description.service | Major, United States Army | en_US |
dc.description.uri | http://archive.org/details/effectivesofempl1094534644 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10945/34644 | |
dc.publisher | Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School | en_US |
dc.rights | This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States. | en_US |
dc.subject.author | SOF-centric | en_US |
dc.subject.author | interagency cooperation | en_US |
dc.subject.author | causes of conflict | en_US |
dc.subject.author | Special Forces (SF) | en_US |
dc.subject.author | Civil Affairs (CA) | en_US |
dc.subject.author | Military Information Support Operations (MISO) | en_US |
dc.subject.author | Special Operations Forces (SOF) | en_US |
dc.subject.author | stability | en_US |
dc.subject.author | failing states | en_US |
dc.subject.author | fundamental and immediate causes | en_US |
dc.subject.author | Afghanistan | en_US |
dc.subject.author | Colombia | en_US |
dc.subject.author | Philippines | en_US |
dc.subject.author | Village Stability Operations (VSO) | en_US |
dc.subject.author | Afghan Local Police (ALP) | en_US |
dc.title | Effective SOF employment: mitigating causes of conflict | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
etd.thesisdegree.discipline | Defense Analysis | en_US |
etd.thesisdegree.level | Masters | en_US |
etd.thesisdegree.name | Master of Science | en_US |
etd.thesisdegree.name | Master of Science in Defense Analysis | en_US |
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