Special Operations Forces (SOF) play a pregnant operate inwards U.S. armed forces operations and, inwards recent years, bring been given greater responsibleness for planning too conducting worldwide counterterrorism operations. U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) has almost 70,000 Active Duty, National Guard, too reserve personnel from all 4 services too Department of Defense (DOD) civilians assigned to its headquarters, its 4 service element commands, too 8 subunified commands.
In 2013, based on a asking from USSOCOM (with the concurrence of Geographic too Functional Combatant Commanders too the Military Service Chiefs too Secretaries), the Secretary of Defense assigned command of the Theater Special Operations Commands (TSOCs) to USSOCOM. USSOCOM at i time has the responsibleness to organize, train, too equip TSOCs. While USSOCOM is at i time responsible for the organizing, training, too equipping of TSOCs, the Geographic Combatant Commands volition drib dead on to bring operational command over the TSOCs. Because the TSOCs are at i time classified every bit subunified commands, the services are responsible to render non-SOF back upward to the TSOCs inwards the same fashion inwards which they render back upward to the Geographic Combatant Command headquarters.
The electrical flow Unified Command Plan (UCP) stipulates USSOCOM responsibleness for synchronizing planning for global operations to fight terrorist networks. This focus on planning limits its mightiness to acquit activities designed to deter emerging threats, construct relationships amongst unusual militaries, too potentially develop greater access to unusual militaries. USSOCOM is proposing changes that would, inwards add-on to electrical flow responsibilities, include the responsibleness for synchronizing the planning, coordination, deployment, and, when directed, the job of exceptional operations forces globally too volition produce too hence amongst the blessing of the Geographic Combatant Commanders, the services, and, every bit directed, appropriate U.S. authorities agencies. Further, the proposed changes would plow over broader responsibleness to USSOCOM beyond counterterrorism activities, to include activities against other threat networks. In August 2016, the Obama Administration assigned USSOCOM the leading operate inwards coordinating DOD’s efforts to counter WMDs, a mission previously assigned to U.S. Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM). Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 potential consequence for Congress is the futurity of USSOCOM too U.S. SOF.
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