Unconventional Warfare in the Contemporary Operational Environment: Transforming Special Forces

The importance and political implications of the subject of unconventional warfare are well known and need not be elaborated upon here. At the present time, the three branches of the American military services are expanding their “special” forces, preparing for the eventuality of conflicts of smaller scope than conventional warfare. On the Soviet side, the theory of peaceful coexistence—i.e., the thesis that capitalism should be eliminated by popular movements rather than by foreign armies—was reasserted at the January conference of the S.E.D. in Berlin, by no lesser authority than Nikita Khrushchev himself.

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Employing Human Role-Players in Simulation-Based Training For Asymmetric and Unconventional Warfare

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e426132005-001 ◽

2004 ◽

Author(s):

L. L. Kusumoto ◽

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R. M. Gehorsam ◽

B. D. Comer ◽

J. R. Grosse

Keyword(s):

Unconventional Warfare ◽

Simulation Based ◽

Role Players

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Determinants and effects of training success in U.S. Navy Special Forces

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e527602009-001 ◽

2013 ◽

Author(s):

D. G. McDonald ◽

J. P. Norton ◽

J. A. Hodgdon

Keyword(s):

Special Forces ◽

Training Success

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Transfer of language proficiency training in the Army special forces

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e644892010-001 ◽

2010 ◽

Author(s):

J. Kemp Ellington ◽

Eric A. Surface ◽

Mark A. Wilson

Keyword(s):

Language Proficiency ◽

Special Forces

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The Investment Climate in Russia

Voprosy Ekonomiki ◽

10.32609/0042-8736-2006-5-48-77 ◽

2006 ◽

pp. 48-77

Author(s):

Article Editorial

Keyword(s):

Money Demand ◽

State Level ◽

Decision Making Process ◽

Investment Climate ◽

Operational Environment ◽

Gdp Growth Rate ◽

External Conditions ◽

Potential Gdp ◽

The Government ◽

Economic Boom

During the last six years, exceptionally favourable external conditions for an upsurge of the domestic economy have been developed. However, they failed to result in an economic boom, which has been estimated by the authors as quite possible. One of the reasons for this - deterioration of the investment climate in the country that caused a decline of business activities and money demand decrease thus leading to reduction of potential GDP growth rate. The accumulated modernisation problems cannot be resolved without increasing the economic dynamics. But this requires an economic policy able to facilitate predictability of Russian business operational environment, to protect it legally, to secure a system of partnership relations with the government and to respect the interests of the main participants in the state level decision-making process concerning business undertakings and investment climate.

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Military-Police Fusion at the Southern Border

Israeli Studies Review ◽

10.3167/isr.2020.350207 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 35 (2) ◽

pp. 101-121

Author(s):

Chava Brownfield-Stein

Keyword(s):

Women Soldiers ◽

High Tech ◽

Ground Vehicles ◽

Operational Environment ◽

Military Police ◽

Novel Technologies ◽

Southern Border ◽

Key Dimensions ◽

Israel Defense Forces ◽

New Phase

Examining the activities of the Israel Defense Forces along the Gaza-Israel border, this article identifies a new phase in what the author calls ‘military-police fusion’. The analysis focuses on novel technologies—remote-controlled weapon stations and unmanned ground vehicles—and on the women soldiers who operate these systems. The central claim is that the blurring of boundaries between military and policing missions, combined with high-tech weaponry, has resulted in the development and implementation of new modes of violence that are currently undergoing a process of redefinition and feminization. The article addresses three key dimensions of the processes occurring in the hybrid operational environment along the Gaza-Israel border: the legal dimension, the technological dimension, and the gender dimension.

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THE NEW SECURITY CHALLENGES OF INFORMATION WAR

Knowledge International Journal ◽

10.35120/kij28061855o ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 28 (6) ◽

pp. 1855-1864

Author(s):

Olga Zoric ◽

Katarina Jonev ◽

Ivan Rancic

Keyword(s):

Information Security ◽

United States Of America ◽

The United States ◽

Practical Aspect ◽

Information Warfare ◽

Operational Environment ◽

Security Challenges ◽

Information Operations ◽

The Russian Federation ◽

The Republic

The author starts from the informational dimension of the operational environment in a strategic reality and deal with the problem of defining informational power from the theoretical and practical aspect of information warfare.The deliberations in the work are aimed to initiate a procedure for auditing of the security documents in order to create a legal basis for the operationalization of the content of information security, as one of the aspects of integral security of the Republic of Serbia. The paper deals with the conceptual determinations and importance of information, information warfare and information operations, as well as the content of information warfare, pointing out the strategic and doctrinal definitions of the information warfare of the United States of America, the Russian Federation and the Republic of Serbia. It is necessary to accurately and objectively observe world achievements in the field of national security and the relation of the most powerful world powers to the problem of information warfare. Based on a comparative analysis of world trends and the state of the theoretical and practical aspects of information security of the Republic of Serbia, the focus is on work, where measures are proposed to improve the security function in the fourth unit of work.

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