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Strategic Disruption by Special Operations Forces A Concept for Proactive Campaigning Short of Traditional War / ERIC ROBINSON, TIMOTHY R. HEATH, GABRIELLE TARINI, DANIEL EGEL, MACE MOESNER IV, CHRISTIAN CURRIDEN, DEREK GROSSMAN, SALE LILLY.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Robinson, Eric (Policy analyst)
- Series:
- Research report (Rand Corporation) ; A1794-1.
- Report ; A1794-1
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Low-intensity conflicts (Military science).
- Strategic rivalries (World politics).
- Irregular warfare.
- Special forces (Military science)--United States.
- Special forces (Military science).
- Strategy.
- Asymmetric Warfare.
- Geopolitical Strategic Competition.
- Low-Intensity Conflict.
- Military Strategy.
- Military Tactics.
- Special Operations Forces.
- Local Subjects:
- Asymmetric Warfare.
- Geopolitical Strategic Competition.
- Low-Intensity Conflict.
- Military Strategy.
- Military Tactics.
- Special Operations Forces.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 94 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Monica, CA : RAND, 2023
- Summary:
- Researchers from RAND Corporation develop a new concept for strategic disruption by special operations forces, involving proactive campaigns to delay, degrade, or deny an adversary's ability to achieve core interests through its preferred strategies. This research provides a clear framework, grounded in concrete historical examples, for how strategic disruption campaigns can create the time, space, and opportunity for strategic gains across diplomatic, informational, military, and economic instruments of national power. For the special operations community, this research provides a rubric for how future campaigns can disrupt nation-state competitors' efforts to win without fighting, particularly when potentially escalatory options rooted in conventional deterrence are ill-suited or infeasible to achieve similar disruptive effects.
- Contents:
- Chapter One: Introducing Strategic Disruption
- Chapter Two: Defining Strategic Disruption
- Chapter Three: The Value Proposition of SOF in Strategic Disruption
- Chapter Four: The Resist Pillar of Strategic Disruption
- Chapter Five: The Support Pillar of Strategic Disruption
- Chapter Six: The Influence Pillar of Strategic Disruption
- Chapter Seven: The Understand Pillar of Strategic Disruption
- Chapter Eight: The Target Pillar of Strategic Disruption
- Chapter Nine: Future Strategic Disruption in Cyberspace
- Chapter Ten: Findings and Implications for Future SOF
- Appendix A: List of Historical Strategic Disruption Campaigns.
- Notes:
- Title from PDF document (title page; viewed November 29, 2023)
- "RAND ARROYO CENTER"
- "Prepared for the United States Army"
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 85-94)
- Description from electronic resource
- ISBN:
- 1977411843
- 9781977411846
- OCLC:
- 1412842708
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