United States Special Operations Forces 1996 Posture Statement |
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Page 85 - SOF principal mission involving planned operations to convey selected information and indicators to foreign audiences to influence their emotions, motives, objective reasoning, and ultimately the behavior of foreign governments, organizations, groups, and individuals. The purpose of PSYOP is to induce or reinforce foreign attitudes and behaviors favorable to the originator's objectives.
Page 88 - command with broad continuing missions under a single commander, composed of forces from two or more Military Departments, and established by the President, through the Secretary of Defense, with the advice and assistance of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. weapons of mass destruction (WMD)— In
Page 86 - national foreign policy objectives that are planned and executed so that the role of the US government is not apparent or acknowledged publicly. SOF may perform any of their primary missions during special activities, subject to limitations imposed by Executive Order 12333. The conduct of special activities requires a Presidential finding and congressional oversight. special boat units
Page 84 - confrontation between contending states or groups below conventional war and above the routine, peaceful competition among states. It frequently involves protracted struggles of competing principles and ideologies. Low-intensity conflict ranges from subversion to the use of armed force. It is waged by a combination of means employing political, economic, informational, and military instruments. Low-intensity conflicts are often localized
Page 31 - or reinforce foreign attitudes and behaviors favorable to the originator's objectives by conducting planned operations to convey selected information to foreign audiences to influence their emotions, motives, objective reasoning, and ultimately the behavior of foreign governments, organizations, groups, and individuals.
Page 82 - SOF principal mission involving short-duration strikes and other smallscale offensive actions by SOF to seize, destroy, capture, recover, or inflict damage on designated personnel or materiel. In the conduct of these operations, SOF may employ raid, ambush, or direct assault tactics; emplace mines and other munitions; conduct stand-off attacks by fire from air, ground, or
Page 83 - conducted to relieve or reduce the results of natural or manmade disasters or other endemic conditions, such as human pain, disease, hunger, or privation, that might present a serious threat to life or that can result in great damage to or loss of property; a SOF collateral activity requiring significant interagency coordination.
Page 82 - SOF principal mission which refers to the activities of the Department of Defense across the full range of US government efforts to combat proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, including the application of military power to protect US forces and interests; intelligence collection and analysis; and support of diplomacy, arms control, and export controls. As appropriate,
Page 87 - SOF principal mission involving reconnaissance and surveillance actions conducted by SOF to obtain or verify, by visual observation or other collection methods, information concerning the capabilities, intentions, and activities of an actual or potential enemy or to secure data concerning the meteorological, hydrographie, or geographic characteristics of a particular area. It includes target acquisition, area assessment, and poststrike reconnaissance.
Page 82 - which are planned and executed to conceal the identity of, or permit plausible denial by, the sponsor. A covert operation differs from a clandestine operation in that emphasis is placed on the concealment of the identity of the sponsor rather than on concealment of the operation.