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I respectfully disagree. From a Combatant Commanders perspective (the 'end user' of Special Forces), it makes little sense to maintain a force structure as large as ours that does not possess a full-spectrum capability. And while I agree that the Regiment should continue to emphasize UW as its core mission, we risk irrelevancy if it becomes our sole focus. When the balloon goes up and a TSOC Cdr needs SF to do 'x' that does not involve indigenous forces, we cannot opt out because it's not in our self-prescribed wheelhouse.
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"I do not know what is true. I do not know the meaning of the universe. But in the midst of doubt, in the collapse of creeds, there is one thing I do not doubt...and that is that the faith is true and adorable which leads a soldier to throw away his life in obedience to a blindly accepted duty, in a cause he little understands, in a plan of campaign of which he has little notion, under tactics of which he does not see the use."
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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