Small Wars, Small Investments, and Big Dividends: Clarifying Airpower's Indirect Approach Amidst New Strategy and Controversy
Abstract
The second anonymously-posited reflection on aviation foreign internal defense (AvFID) and building partnership capacity (BPC) reflects valid sentiments within the White SOF community, but is misplaced for two reasons. First, the Air Force is making adjustments to meet the BPC imperative, thought they are minor, greatly insufficient, and existentially threatened at the time that this text is being written. Second, the community of Air Force advisors is not alone in terms of facing hardship in advocating their mission within a service oriented towards conventional mindsets and a command focused on direct action. Career Army Special Forces (SF) advisors voice similar frustrations. The debate between Black SOF and White SOF proponents is one marked by emotion and parochialism. Much like any passionate quarrel, there is some logic to each partys position. Hegel, master theoretician of dialectic, summarized this state of affairs best by noting that, In a true tragedy, both sides must be right.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Apr 01, 2012
- Accession Number
- AD1022960
Entities
People
- Nick Dipoma
Organizations
- Air Command and Staff College