Building Special Operations Relationships with Fragile Partners:

Building Special Operations Relationships with Fragile Partners:

Best Practices from Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan

Torsten Gojowsky, Sebastian Koegler

Band 17: Monterey Studies

Gesellschaft, Politik & Medien

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120 Seiten

ISBN-13: 9783945861882

Verlag: Miles-Verlag

Erscheinungsdatum: 18.02.2019

Sprache: Englisch

Schlagworte: Afghanistan, SEAL, NATO, Bundeswehr, Special Forces

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Relationships empower Special Operations Forces (SOF) to perform as a highly skilled and reliable cadre in collaboration with local partner forces to prevent and solve shared problem sets, often accomplishing more with less.

Since 9/11, however, relationships between SOF and their partners have not always been properly built and maintained. The authors trace the causal effects of constraints, trainings, and incentives and their impact on the current North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) SOF approach of building enduring relationships.

Motivated by numerous deployments to Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria, with recurring problem sets, we chose to conduct a struc-tured-focused comparison between U.S. and Danish SOF supporting Operation Inherent Resolve in Al Anbar, Iraq (2015-2018) and German SOF during the shift of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force to Resolute Support mission in Afghanistan (2013-2015).

The analysis of these cases finds that specific interactions of the studied factors not only cause variations in relationships between SOF and partner forces, but ultimately influence operations and objectives determining mission success or failure.

With further testing of our analysis and recommendations, this research can help to identify inherently flexible and nested strategic options for SOF senior leaders, allowing them to deploy SOF elements efficiently during times of asymmetric, diffuse, and episodic conflicts.

Gojowsky and Koegler have written a fascinating and important manuscript concerning the use and lessons-learned of SOF in recent asymmetrical conflicts. In doing so, the authors systematically assess modern SOF tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTP) and relationships between NATO SOF and their local partners. This is a must-read for those interested in the future of SOF as well as counter-insurgencies' future TTPs, constraints and incentives. Gojowsky and Koegler recommendations should be carefully considered by NATO and its member countries.

Professor Thomas H. Johnson, Author of "Taliban Narratives: The Use and Power of Stories in the Afghanistan Conflict", Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California.
Torsten Gojowsky

Torsten Gojowsky

Torsten Gojowsky is a U.S. Army Special Forces Officer with several deployments to the Middle East, Europe, and Southeast Asia. He earned his Master of Science degree in Defense Analysis with a specialty track of Irregular Warfare from the Naval Postgraduate School and currently holds a position at the U.S. Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School.

Sebastian Koegler

Sebastian Koegler

Sebastian Koegler is a German Army Special Operations Forces Officer with several deployments to Afghanistan. He earned his Master of Science degree in Defense Analysis with a specialty track of Irregular Warfare from the Naval Postgraduate School.

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