Proper Employment of Special Operations Forces: Geographic Combatant Command Planner Considerations for Special Operations Forces Employment

Abstract

The lessons learned from Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) and Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) shape United States Special Operation Commands (USSOCOMs) doctrine today. To employ special operations forces (SOF) properly, geographic combatant command planners must understand the SOF employment lessons learned about command relationships, planner interaction between staffs, assigning proper missions, and joint special operation area (JSOA) considerations from OEF and OIF, which currently are codified in SOF doctrine.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 2010
Accession Number
AD1019530

Entities

People

  • Philip J. Cooper

Organizations

  • Air Command and Staff College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • C4I
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Afghanistan Conflict
  • Air Force
  • Best Practices
  • Combatant Commanders
  • Command And Control
  • Contingency Operations (Military)
  • Employment
  • Iraqi-War
  • Lessons Learned
  • Military Science
  • Special Operations Forces
  • Task Forces
  • Terrorists
  • Training
  • Unified Combatant Commands
  • United States Special Operations Command
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Irregular Warfare and Special Operations Cyberspace Operations against Adversarial Threats.
  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.

Technology Areas

  • Fully Networked C3
  • Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control