Author: Linda Robinson, Senior International Policy Analyst, RAND Corporation
Presider: Stephen Biddle, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Defense Policy
April 15, 2013
Linda Robinson discusses her recently released Council Special Report, The Future of U.S. Special Operations Forces, which calls for conceptual, institutional, and operational changes to reorient U.S. special operations forces to ensure that they are employed to best effect.
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