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Originally Posted by Blueboy
Lest we forget gents, Special Forces does have five doctrinal missions: UW, FID, SR, CT, AND DA. UW will always be first among equals, but the others still matter----particularly to a Combatant Commander who does not want to hear that his regionally-aligned Special Forces Group "doesn't do windows (e.g. anything other than UW)."
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DA does not topple governments or regional influential organizations or defeat non state actors such as in operations such as FID,COIN and UW. We need to drop DA as a doctrinal mission especially since we have Infantry, Ranger Bn, SEAL's, Force Recon, MARSOC, MEF's and Tier 1 units all doing the same thing and they are specialist. DA is however integrated within our expertise when training host nation or guerrillas to defeat the enemy especially when we teach them commando operations consisting of Raids, Recons and Ambushes in order to attain a strategic goal. CT should be dropped as a doctrinal mission since COIN/FID and UW are all essentially operations that either sponsor or counter terrorism/guerrilla type aggressors. Again we have a national force and several "specialist" dedicated to this specific mission. SF is not task organized for DA we are task org'd as a battalion staff as force multipliers in line with COL Volckmann's missions in the P.I. organizing, training and advising all aspects of the conflict.
Certainly we have learned by now that DA/kinetic does not work against VTB Violent True Believer organizations where the population is caught in the middle.