USAF Special Ops return to niche missions for great power competition

By Garrett Reim2020-09-16T01:36:00

A service member jumps from a US Air Force C-130J Hercules during a Military Freefall Jumpmaster Course c USAF

Source: US Air Force

US Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) plans to move away from some of the counter terrorism and anti-insurgency missions that it assumed after the 11 September 2001 attacks, in favour of traditional niche roles in the USA’s budding great power competition with Russia and China.

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