Andrew White
The US military is facing an evolved threat in the form of a “fusion” of different adversaries, but with that danger comes a potential “renaissance” for special operations forces (SOF), two senior-most special ops leaders told the SOF Week conference today.
“A SOF renaissance is now upon us. In an era where technological advancement is rapidly changing, the character of war and threats are covering globally, our eight decades of experience has tailor-made SOF for strategic competition’s return,” US Special Operations Command chief Gen. Bryan Fenton declared.
Sharing the podium with Fenton was USSOCOM’s Command Sergeant Major, Shane Shorter, who said “complexities” associated with great power competition mean the United States is now facing a “fusion of foes,” including overlapping threats from China, Iran, North Korea, Russia and terrorist groups.
“Individually, each is dangerous. Together they are fusing. Adversaries coming together through convergence to collaborate. It’s a fusion of foes,” he warned.
Fenton went onto echo US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s comments made earlier in the day in which he said crisis response missions conducted by US SOF were up by 200 percent over the last three years. “That’s unprecedented,” Fenton added.
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