8870 - Special Operations Concepts and Strategy Specialist

Summary

The Special Operations Concepts and Strategy Specialists participates in studies and analyses of strategy/policy and complexities within, dynamics of inter/intrastate conflict, historical and comparative perspectives of special operations, WMD proliferation and counter-proliferation, special operations doctrine, concepts, and institutions, crisis management and the contingent use of military power, terrorism, social revolution, and unconventional warfare.

Prerequisites

Possess MOS 0372, Critical Skills Operator.

Security requirement: TS/SCI security clearance.

Possess a bachelor’s degree from a college or university that is institutionally accredited by one of the six regional accrediting agencies.

Requirements

Conduct a successful operational deployment in a SOF billet.

Complete one of the following: Naval Postgraduate School (NPS), Defense Analysis, Special Operations and Irregular Warfare (SO/IW) 699 Curriculum, National Defense University (NDU) Joint Special Operations Master of Arts (JSOMA).

A graduate degree with course material relevant to special operations, low-intensity conflict, national security and international security.

POI CID

None

Duties

Participates in strategic analysis of past operations, and applies historical lessons to future joint and combined operations, in order to discern the relationship between a nation’s political interests and goals and the ways military power may be used to achieve them.

Uses knowledge of political, ethnic, and cultural dynamics that explain the outbreak of war between and within modern States.

Uses analytical methods and their application to military modeling, simulations, and gaming.

Provides detailed and conceptual understanding of the development of doctrine for special operations.

Provides detailed understanding of the problems of domestic and international terrorism, social revolution, and other forms of irregular conflict.

Provides understanding of the political role played by military power in operations short of war, the problems of military crisis management, and the contingent use of force in support of local U.S.

policy objectives.

Provides understanding of the likely and potential implications of information warfare on future special operations.

Reviews the historical use of Special Operations Forces, to include how these and similar forces have been organized, trained, equipped, directed, and employed.

Reviews historical and contemporary “small wars” and other forms of low-intensity conflict in Latin America, Asia, and the Middle East.

Performs operational liaison for MAGTF-SOF integration, and with other military and government agencies that conduct Special Operations.

Performs any or all of the above duties and tasks in the realm of Special Operations analysis at top management levels, and research and development activities.

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