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A Preliminary Discussion on the Transformation of Foreign Military Special Operations Forces

2025-07-17   

At present, the world's biggest change in a century has accelerated its evolution. The form of war is changing from the traditional single mode to the direction of integrating multiple elements. Special operations forces are facing the structural contradiction between the rapid rise of strategic value and the lagging development of capability boundaries. With the empowerment of quantum technology by the US military and the restructuring of cross domain clusters by the Russian military, the world's major military powers' special forces are accelerating their transformation from traditional "tactical assault teams" to "strategic enablers", and their construction logic is undergoing revolutionary reshaping. Strategic expansion of task spectrum. In the context of great power competition, special operations forces are endowed with multiple strategic missions such as technical reconnaissance, system breaking, and rule shaping, and urgently need to expand their capabilities to meet the requirements of the development of the situation. In the 2023 Irving National Training Center exercise, the US military's special operations team conducted the first exercise of quantum radar spectrum feature acquisition and AI model poisoning subjects, aiming to paralyze the opponent's intelligent combat system; The British "SAS" special forces have formed a digital assault team, consisting of neural language programming experts and machine learning engineers, specializing in enemy command chain algorithm vulnerabilities. This indicates that the operational style of special operations needs to shift from campaign breaking to strategic shaping, organically integrating tactical creativity, technological revolution, and new domain combat capabilities, and enhancing the multi task capability of special operations to strike enemy strategic key nodes in modern high-intensity mixed warfare. Composite transformation of combat capabilities. Under the guidance of the law of generating new combat power, modern special operations have broken through the traditional "unconventional, asymmetric, and nonlinear" combat scope, accelerating the evolution towards a new combat style of cross domain integration and global linkage. In recent world armed conflicts, long-range precision decapitation operations have demonstrated the full domain control capability of "physical domain attack+information domain control+cognitive domain attack", which is highly consistent with the concept of multi domain collaborative control emphasized in modern warfare. This indicates that the construction of special operations capabilities needs to transform from "professional and efficient" to "cross domain composite", break through the traditional barriers of military branches, and take multi domain capability nesting and military branch module restructuring as the core logic, dynamically grouping capability composite special operations multi domain clusters according to mission requirements. The combination of human clothing and disruptive fission. Science and technology are the strategic engines for military transformation and transformation. The rapid development of artificial intelligence and unmanned systems is deconstructing the inherent mode of combining personnel and equipment in special forces. The US military's "Algorithm Special Operations" experiment shows that a 12 person special operations team equipped with an AI tactical middle platform can synchronously control 200 heterogeneous unmanned nodes, and its battlefield perception density far exceeds that of traditional battalion level units. The enormous potential of artificial intelligence in enhancing battlefield perception, combat control, comprehensive support, and other capabilities reflects the idea of using cutting-edge technology to reshape the organizational form of special operations. This indicates that special operations professional training needs to shift from cultivating "super soldiers" to building an "intelligent matrix". In the future intelligent warfare, special forces personnel are not only the "king of traditional military skills", but also the "experts" in the application of new technologies. With the support of the "brain bank+cloud bank+arsenal" architecture, they extend their combat tentacles, control multiple unmanned intelligent combat entities, and can quickly and accurately penetrate enemy key nodes and targets. (New Society)

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