DoD

To-Do

• Afghanistan's Local War
• Small Wars: VSO
• ADP 3-05
• PRISM: SOF-CF I^3
• JSOU: VSO

SOF

• SOCOM 2020: Forging The Tip Of The Spear (SOCOM 2013)
  • McRaven's vision for SOCOM, focused on the Global SOF Network.
• American Special Operations Forces Are Deployed to 70 Percent of the World’s Countries (Nation 2017)
  • Overview of SOF deployments in 2016, general trends.
• Village Stability Operations: More than Village Defense (Special Warfare 2011)
  • Describes overall nature of VSOs, coalition context in which they exist.
• Village Stability Operations (VSO) in Afghanistan (SOF News 2016)
  • Summary overview of VSOs.
• Gray Zone (Special Warfare 2015)
  • Overview of term, and factors driving increased conflicts therein.
• Special Operations Forces in the Gray Zone: An Operational Framework for Employing Special Operations Forces in the Space Between War and Peace (AEI 2016)
  • Military model has to be reformed to refocus on gray zone.