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Anonymous ID: 4bcd1d Jan. 5, 2024, 3:06 p.m. No.20190039   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0322 >>0461 >>0575

3000 Special Forces Cut From US Army.

 

Shrinking Army Special Operations Is a Bad Idea for Deterring China

 

The most baffling Department of Defense military force structure decision of 2023 is the Army’s decision to single out the Army Special Operations community for downsizing.

Secretary of the Army Christine Wormuth has announced a 3,000-position cut to Special Operations in a “redesign” of the Army Special Operations community. Chris Maier, assistant secretary of defense for Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict (ASD SOLIC), and Ms. Wormuth have begun to artfully parse this cut as not affecting the Green Berets but focusing on “enabler” elements without further clarification.

Critical Role of ARSOC in Building Partner Capacity in Taiwan

 

ARSOC makes up more than half of the total structure of the entire U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM), so decrementing ARSOC hinders the entire SOCOM mission. One of the key SOCOM and ARSOC missions is what’s known as foreign internal defense (FID), which is building the capacity of key partners to defend themselves.

 

One of the critical actions directed in the 2023 and 2024 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) is Section 1309, which establishes training, advising, and institutional capacity building for Taiwan’s military. This section mandates a large-scale training program for Taiwan, where FID is a core element.

 

And which part of the Army force structure specializes and focuses on FID?

 

ARSOC, which makes the targeted cut of ARSOC puzzling.

Not well advertised has been a longstanding effort by the Special Operations community to better organize, train, and equip Taiwanese regular and reserve forces to respond to Chinese gray zone activities before or during a potential invasion by China. This effort is the spearhead of Indo-Pacific Command efforts to build deterrence capacity to discourage communist China from considering a move to open warfare in the Western Pacific.

The proposed cut in ARSOC belies a disconnect between the NDAA and the announced actions of the secretary of the Army and ASD SOLIC. Significant bureaucratic disconnects do happen in the largest bureaucracy in the world, which is where Congress, in its oversight role, needs to identify and act upon such non-sequiturs. Rep. Mike Waltz (R-Fla.) has taken vocal leadership to address the proposed Army actions.

Strategic Reconnaissance Delivers Significant Value for Indo-Pacific Command

 

Another critical mission for ARSOC in support of Indo-Pacific Command is strategic reconnaissance. This is the mission in which ARSOC elements are the indispensable “eyes and ears” of the theater commander, Adm. John Aquilino.

The ARSOC units and elements provide significant capacities and capabilities to Special Operations Command Pacific. The ARSOC elements would give advance warning of any Chinese moves on Taiwan and North Korean moves toward South Korea. In addition, there are special situations, such as Chinese adventurism in the Solomon Islands.

The ARSOC units would be essential in identifying what the Chinese are really up to, especially when Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare is openly embracing Beijing and is hostile toward non-Chinese elements. The Solomon Islands represent an interesting scenario in which much of the population is pro-Western, which may enable Western special operators to try to determine the scope and intent of the Chinese Communist Party’s malign activities in the Solomon Islands.

The Western Pacific isn’t the only place where ARSOC will play a crucial role. With the developing possibility of Venezuelan aggression toward Guyana, ARSOC, with the 7th Special Forces Group and the associated enablers, make unconventional warfare capabilities a key deterrent to Venezuela and growing Chinese civil-military fusion operations in the Americas.

The special operators of ARSOC play an irreplaceable role in FID, strategic reconnaissance, and the all-important “SOF Truth #1.” People are more important than hardware. In other words, the most important job for the U.S. Special Operations Forces is to build enduring personal relationships with host countries, which is irreplaceable in the struggle to shape host country decision-making on whether to align with China or the American-led world. This is a key tenet to victory, and within the total Army, this expertise resides in ARSOC.

 

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/01/shrinking-army-special-operations-is-bad-idea-deterring/

Anonymous ID: 4bcd1d Jan. 5, 2024, 3:19 p.m. No.20190127   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0136

Dark Brandon: Biden Compares Trump to Nazi Germany

 

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/01/05/dark-brandon-biden-compares-trump-to-nazi-germany/

Anonymous ID: 4bcd1d Jan. 5, 2024, 3:22 p.m. No.20190155   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0161 >>0177 >>0461 >>0575

AN UTTERLY CORRUPT, CAPTURED & COMPLICIT CONGRESS CONTINUES TO COVER UP THE CRIME OF THE CENTURY

 

Via State of the Nation Editor’s Note: There are a total of 535 members in the current US Congress. Of those, only two have taken up the cause, to any degree, of stopping the ongoing Covid ‘vaccine…

 

https://www.theburningplatform.com/2024/01/05/an-utterly-corrupt-captured-complicit-congress-continues-to-cover-up-the-crime-of-the-century/

Anonymous ID: 4bcd1d Jan. 5, 2024, 3:28 p.m. No.20190194   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0199 >>0217

Transgender surgery…. gotta be

 

Pentagon chief suffered surgery complications

 

Lloyd Austin has been hospitalized since Monday but the Pentagon kept his condition secret from the American public

 

https://www.rt.com/news/590174-pentagon-austin-surgery-complications/

Anonymous ID: 4bcd1d Jan. 5, 2024, 3:39 p.m. No.20190260   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0461 >>0575

Wow! New program pays, trains New Mexico stylists, barbers to discuss vaccinations with clients

 

https://www.krqe.com/news/new-mexico/new-program-pays-trains-new-mexico-stylists-barbers-to-discuss-vaccinations-with-clients/

Anonymous ID: 4bcd1d Jan. 5, 2024, 4:15 p.m. No.20190522   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0529 >>0530 >>0538

Ann Coulter says she may vote for Joe Biden

Conservative pundit Ann Coulter said she would vote for President Joe Biden over Nikki Haley.

https://www.newsweek.com/ann-coulter-vote-joe-biden-nikki-haley-border-policy-1858178

 

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