Forty percent of U.S. Special Operations Command is now aligned to meet the challenges of great power competition, a shift that means the command needs modernized intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance hardware and software, and electronic warfare defenses, its commander told lawmakers Thursday. Army Gen. Richard Clarke pointed to the standing up of a Special Operations task force to counter Chinese information operations in the Indo-Pacific as an example of the new alignment. “China works very well in that space,” he said. The idea behind the task force “is to tamp down some of the disinformation” China spreads about its own … Continue reading SOCOM Shifting To Great Power Competition Strategy, But Needs More ISR Capabilities, Commander Says