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• celebrating the 20th Anniversary of Special Operations Command and discussing another: do we need an Unconventional Warfare Command?

  Last week I was able to attend a few events about the US Special Operations Command . The first two were celebrations of the 20 th Anniversary of the founding of SOCOM and fittingly they paid homage to the fact that the US Congress, with some inside the... Posted Sep 24 2007, 10:07 PM by Otto with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: SOCOM, GWOT, Unconventional Warfare

• up, up, and away....

  Sgt. Joshua Harris launches a pointer UAV, US Army photo by Cpl Benjamin Cossel This online report by Mark Rutherford of CNET Blog Network that SOCOM is considering the Boeing A-160 Hummingbird in itself is not troubling, but I have great concerns that... Posted Aug 17 2007, 10:05 AM by Otto with | with no comments Filed under: SOCOM, UAV

• Farewell General Downing

  Official USSOCOM portrait of General Wayne Downing General Wayne A. Downing, US Army Retired, died on the 17 th of July at the age of 67. Nicknamed “The WAD” for his initials, General Downing’ military career culminated as Commander of the Special Operations... Posted Jul 23 2007, 06:38 PM by Otto with | with no comments Filed under: SOF, SOCOM