A Special Forces operational detachment–alpha (ODA) comprises 12 soldiers with different specialties and roles: leadership, intelligence, weapons, engineering, communications, and medical. In that regard, ...
Read MoreCTX Vol. 4 No. 3 - August 2014 - Global ECCO
COMBATING THREATS EXCHANGE
A Quarterly, Peer Reviewed Online Journal
Islam is and should be a core education topic for Special Operations units. Dozens of nations’ armed forces have been engaging enemies inMuslim-majority countries for decades. Besides violent engagements, ...
Read More“The most rebellious territory in the Qing Empire” is how historian Joseph Fletcher once described the land known today as XinjiangProvince, in northwestern China. ...
Read MoreInherent in the United States’ counterinsurgency strategy in Afghanistan is a tension between the individual warfighter’s natural desire to wage conventional war and the strategic leader’s attempt to overcome ...
Read MoreNATO Special Operations Forces consists of personnel from 27 contributing countries. These countries vary not only in size, manpower, and military and financial strength, but also in their attitudes and level of national political will to support NATO SOF.
Read MoreSome people argue that a new cold war is going on, but the characteristics of this war—which Frederik Pohl has called a cool war—have totally changed. This cool war, which is also referred to ...
Read MoreThe sophisticated use of online media platforms by individuals and organizations that promote violent Islam augments a blend of audio visual media interspersed with writings that help to sanction ...
Read MoreA lot of veterans are disinclined to tell war stories. They rightly say, “You wouldn’t understand. You weren’t there.” Tim O’Brien, author of The Things They Carried, seems pretty convinced that you can’t tell a true war story. KurtVonnegut was equally convinced: it took him years...
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EDITORIAL STAFF
- ELIZABETH SKINNER, Editor
- ELIZABETH ROBINSON, Copy Editor
- SALLY BAHO, Copy Editor
- LAYOUT AND DESIGN, Graduate Education Advancement Center, Naval Postgraduate School
EDITORIAL REVIEW BOARD
- VICTOR ASAL, University of Albany SUNY
- CHRIS HARMON, Marine Corps University
- TROELS HENNINGSEN, Royal Danish Defense College
- PETER MCCABE, Joint Special Operations University
- RAJAN RAVINDRAN, Indian Army (Ret.)
- IAN C. RICE, US Army (Ret.)
- ANNA SIMONS, Naval Postgraduate School
- SHYAMSUNDER TEKWANI, Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies
- CRAIG WHITESIDE, Naval War College