Latest ARSOF Special Warfare Issue
The latest (60-age pdf) spring 2024 edition of Special Warfare is available for download.
This issue of The Official Professional Journal of U.S. Army Special Operations Forces is entitled “How ARSOF Fights, An Irregular Approach to the Competition Continuum.”
One particularly interesting article by Maj. Brandon Schwartz, SF’s Underwater Operations commander, covers ARSOF’s MAROPs maritime operations.
Keep in mind that each company within a Special Forces Group mans, trains, equips, and deploys a 12-man SFUWO (Special Forces Underwater Operations) ODA, a mission skillset they have maintained since the 1950s– long before the SEALs were around.
With seven SFGs, each with four battalions, each with three companies, that gives you a rough TOE for 84 SFUWO ODAs, or a little over 1,000 combat divers, which is a serious force. One that few outside of Key West know about.