The Global SOF Network: Posturing Special Operations Forces to Ensure Global Security in the 21st Century by Keenan D. Yoho, Tess deBlanc-Knowles, Randy Borum

“…Conventional inter-state wars are less common, but they have been displaced by a proliferation of smaller scale, asymmetric, diffuse and episodic struggles: What Trinquier calls “subversive warfare or revolutionary warfare.” The participants in these conflicts are not limited to national military forces, but include a range of non-state actors, including militias, ethnic groups, illicit transnational networks, informal paramilitary organizations, and violent extremists. …”
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