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Article: What's missing in ARSOF logistics? The logistics problems of Army Special Operations Forces in Operation Enduring Freedom indicate that a reorganization of the support structure is needed.
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- Army Logistician
- Article date:
- January 1, 2004
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The Global War on Terrorism has changed the way Army Special Operations Forces (ARSOF) deploy, fight, and are supported. Following the Vietnam War, ARSOF focused their operations at the team level, and their logistics requirements, or "logistics tail," were minimal. However, that operational posture began to change on 11 September 2001. Even as the President announced that the United States was beginning a Global War on Terrorism, an entire Army Special Forces group was preparing to deploy to central Asia. Not since Vietnam had such a large number of Green Berets deployed to such a concentrated area of operations.
However, because of the small number of support ...
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