Phi Beta Iota: Where SOF is failing right now is in continuing to allow Black SOF to oversee White SOF. We need to separate White SOF from Black SOF, and have — as General Peter Schoomaker envisioned in 1997, two deputies for CINCSOC: a three-star deeply rooted in Civil Affairs and Outreach managing global White SOF, and a three star deeply rooted in track and whack managing Black SOF. By, with, and through should be three quarters of the SOF piechart, and within that three quarters, White SOF — including training in creating Multinational Decisions Support Centres — should be three quarters of the domain. All non-kinectic SOF should be white, not black, and done via the host country, not pretending to be non-attributable, which is a lame joke. Somewhere in here PSYOP needs to be retired, with its White SOF going to an expanded Civil Affairs Command and its Black SOF going to the operational end of Cyber.
See Also:
4th Media: African Development versus Debt, Rule of Law versus Western Subversion
Berto Jongman: Eric Garland on 20th Century Myths Driving US Intervention
Chuck Spinney: Peter Van Buren – Any More U.S. “Stabilization” and Africa Will Collapse
Journal: Somalia, Special Operations, and Soft Power Not Present
LtCol X: CSA Sends – Strategic Priorities for the Army – with Phi Beta Iota Comments
Marcus Aurelius: SOF O-6 Sends – A World Where No One Listens to America
Marcus Aurelius: Special Forces Autonomous, Morphing Into White SOF Going Global
OSINT Literature Review, Name Association, Lessons Learned
Review: Stratagem: Deception and Surprise in War
Who’s Who in Peace Intelligence: Dr. Col Max Manwaring, US Army Strategic Studies Institute
Who’s Who in Collective Intelligence: Mike Pheneger
Who’s Who in Peace Intelligence: Douglas A. Macgregor
Who’s Who in Peace Intelligence: Robert Young Pelton
