Special Operations Forces Engagement: A Framework for Successful Security Cooperation

Abstract

Building partner capacity is widely accepted as being in the national interest and is routinely part of our national security and defense guidance. Determining what capacity to build though is not always straightforward. Understanding the requirements and existing capabilities of the partner nation, coordinating guidance among national, alliance, combatant command, and the US embassy, as well as navigating the resourcing challenges of our security assistance funding streams add to the difficulty. This paper posits that a useful way to manage these challenges is to orient the security cooperation program, at least initially, on host nation Special Operations Forces (SOF). It provides a case study of security force assistance to the Slovak 5th Special Forces Regiment as the core of a larger security cooperation program.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2013
Accession Number
ADA589106

Entities

People

  • Terry L. Anderson

Organizations

  • United States Army War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Biomedical
  • C4I
  • Cyber
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Department Of Defense
  • Guidance
  • Lessons Learned
  • Military Organizations
  • Military Science
  • National Security
  • Security
  • Special Forces
  • Special Operations Forces
  • Training
  • Unified Combatant Commands
  • United States
  • United States Special Operations Command
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.
  • Military and Counterinsurgency Studies.