Super-Rangers: the early years of Army Special Forces 1944-1953

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  • March 22, 2019
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  • Gibson, Jason Bryant
    • Affiliation: College of Arts and Sciences, Department of History
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  • The United States Army Special Forces is an unconventional warfare organization of the United States Army with roots in World War II. Soldiers and civilian policymakers who participated in guerilla warfare during that war saw unconventional warfare as a way to further American interests in situations where a conventional army could not operate effectively. In the postwar national security policy battles, these soldiers and government officials fought for a permanent unconventional warfare unit in the US Army. By 1951 They had successfully argued for the establishment of Army Special Forces Groups utilizing guerilla warfare to fight Soviet Communism in the event of a general war. The problems of understanding and defining unconventional warfare, however, crippled the ability of Army Special Forces to instigate guerilla warfare against the Soviet Union wherever and whenever needed.
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  • Kohn, Richard H.
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  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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  • October 19, 2010

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