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All Roads Lead to Baghdad: U.S. Army Special Operations Forces in Iraq
Assessing Revolutionary and Insurgent Strategies (ARIS)
"This project consists of research conducted for the US Army Special Operations Command by the National Security Analysis Department of The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory."
Brothers in Berets The Evolution of Air Force Special Tactics, 1953-2003
Indomitable Valor: U.S. Army Special Operations Recipients of the Medal of Honor
1945-2008
Instruments of Statecraft: U.S. Guerrilla Warfare, Counterinsurgency, and Counterterrorism, 1940-1990
Last Full Measure of Devotion
MACV: The Joint Command in the Years of Escalation, 1962-1967
MACV: The Joint Command in the Years of Withdrawal, 1968-1973
Merrill's Marauders, February-May 1944
The Origins of the United States Special Operations Command
OSS Office of Strategic Services: A Primer on the Special Operations Branches and Detachments of the Office of Strategic Services
Psychological and Unconventional Warfare, 1941-1952: Origins of a Special Warfare Capability for the United States Army
Russian-Soviet Unconventional Wars in the Caucasus, Central Asia, and Afghanistan
Leavenworth Papers No. 20
Special Air Warfare and the Secret War in Laos: Air Commandos 1964–1975
Success in the Shadows: Operation Enduring Freedom–Philippines and the Global War on Terror, 2002–2015
The U.S. Army and Irregular Warfare, 1775-2007
U.S. Army Counterinsurgency and Contingency Operations Doctrine 1860-1941
U.S. Army Counterinsurgency and Contingency Operations Doctrine 1942-1976
U.S. Army Special Forces: 1961-1971
U.S. Army Special Operations in World War II
U.S. Army Special Warfare: Its Origins: Psychological And Unconventional Warfare, 1941-1952
United States Special Operations Command History (15th ed)
United States Special Operations Command History 1987-2007
Weapon of Choice: ARSOF in Afghanistan
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US Special Operations Command (USSOCOM)
Command Reading Rooms
Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) Heritage Reading Room
US Army Special Operations Command (USASOC) History
US Marine Corps Forces Special Operations Command (MARSOC) - Heritage
Publications of Interest
Also see the SOF CRS Reports
A Descriptive Study of US Special Operations Command Fatalities, 2001 TO 2018
Great Power Competition: Irregular Warfare: Documents
JSOU Publications
Special Operations Forces Reference Manual
5th ed. 2023
Special Operations Research Topics
USSOCOM Fact Book 2024
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Resistance Operating Concept
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