US Army Special Forces Principal Tasks History Research Paper

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The history of the United States Army dates back to 1775 when militia groups were organized to form the legendary Continental Army that took part in the war of independence ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"glUJlfy7","properties":{"formattedCitation":"(Carp)","plainCitation":"(Carp)","dontUpdate":true,"noteIndex":0},"citationItems":[{"id":269,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/IBolxqVE/items/RXJ3HBM6"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/local/IBolxqVE/items/RXJ3HBM6"],"itemData":{"id":269,"type":"chapter","container-title":"Revolutions in the Western World 1775–1825","page":"364–392","publisher":"Routledge","source":"Google Scholar","title":"The Origins of the Nationalist Movement of 1780–1783: Congressional Administration and the Continental Army","title-short":"The Origins of the Nationalist Movement of 1780–1783","author":[{"family":"Carp","given":"E. Wayne"}],"issued":{"date-parts":[["2017"]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (Carp 364). The Continental Army evolved as time went by, participating in numerous civil wars including the famous World War I and World War II. As the military forces took a bigger stage of participating in wars all over the world, the army underwent some reorganization into sub-commands, the air force, ground forces, and the navy for efficient management. The sub-commands remain to date and countries in most parts of the world emulates the same criteria. The army has grown exponentially ever since and it has seen numerous advancements in terms of technology, armory, and tactics of war, among others. As people around the world became more civilized and educated, the idea of psychological warfare came to being and the US Army formulated the Psychological Warfare Division(PWD) during the World War II(WWII) and thereafter let to the formation of the US Special Forces(SF) unit in the early 1950s ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"XWtSGKGW","properties":{"formattedCitation":"(DoD)","plainCitation":"(DoD)","dontUpdate":true,"noteIndex":0},"citationItems":[{"id":266,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/IBolxqVE/items/GAFRZKNZ"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/local/IBolxqVE/items/GAFRZKNZ"],"itemData":{"id":266,"type":"article-journal","container-title":"Department of the Army (May)","source":"Google Scholar","title":"FM 3–18: Special Forces Operations","title-short":"FM 3–18","author":[{"family":"DoD","given":"U. S."}],"issued":{"date-parts":[["2014"]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (DoD 1-1). The Special Forces is a small-unit operation team composed of well equipped, highly trained, and organized military personnel whose primary objective is to conduct special operations. The special operations are characterized by time sensitivity, low visibility, generally high risk, require regional expertise, surreptitiousness, and often need the aid of indigenous forces ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"QkKSqOBW","properties":{"formattedCitation":"(Feickert)","plainCitation":"(Feickert)","dontUpdate":true,"noteIndex":0},"citationItems":...