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Officials at the symposium noted that many of the cuts to both positions and actual personnel will come at the expense of support and enabling jobs such as logistics, civil affairs and psychological operations, not traditional operators.

But that provided little comfort to leaders and supporters of the SOF community.

mid-October that many of the cuts would be to unfilled billets within U.S. Army Special Operations Command and would eliminate as much as 10% of the positions in that command.

Army Secretary Christine Wormuth has made public comments in favor of cuts to Army special operations and other forces she sees as "parts of our formations that were purpose-designed for those kinds of fights [traditional SOF missions] where we may not need quite as much capacity going forward." In the 2024 annual defense policy bill, the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), U.S. Special Operations Command lost around 700 billets. Now, for the 2025 NDAA, the Army alone is pressing for a cut of more than 3,000 SOF and enablers. Unfortunately, it looks like Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has approved these cuts. That is a mistake, and one that Congress should rectify.


베트남/그레나다 이후 슈워츠코프 같은 사람들이 그랬듯 야전의 장성층들에서 GWOT 기간동안 SOF가 테러리스트들 대가리 깼던것만 봐오며 "니들 테러리스트 대가리만 잘까는거 아님?" 하고 생각하는 사람들이 많아진듯


2025년 국방수권법이 이렇게 진행될경우 USASOC만 해도 3000명의 인원이 감축될 예정이라고 하고 오스틴 국방장관이 이러한 삭감을 승인중임


그 이후 기사 내용은 대러/대중 대리전에서 SOF의 역할은 막중하며 이를 감축하는것은 쉬워도 그 지원부대 체계 등을 재구축하는건 쉽지 않다는 비판적인 내용들


사실 그거 말고도 미육군 자체가 모병에서 문제를 겪고있어서 인원 딴대로 빼려는 것 같은데 당연히도 미특수전커뮤니티들은 반발하고있음