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Contemporary warfare presents unprecedented challenges. Today, armies face more diffuse adversaries, with a mix of traditional and new threats adding to the already complex gray-zone environments. In this context, special operations and intelligence take on a leading role. These highly flexible, adaptive, interoperable, and stealthy units, with their diverse and advanced technological capabilities, are essential for confronting today’s adversaries.
However, they need to be reconsidered. The essential capabilities of Special Forces must be reassessed to find new approaches for tackling these challenges. Likewise, intelligence must adapt to increasingly global environments, with tactical and operational intelligence merging with strategic intelligence. Therefore, intelligence and Special Forces must collaborate more deeply than in the past, nearly blurring the line between the two.
This book explores relevant and contemporary debates about the use of Special Forces and Intelligence in modern warfare. It is the outcome of four years of academic reflection and research by the Army Department of the Escuela Superior de Guerra “General Rafael Reyes Prieto.” These insights are especially important given the specific nature of the topic and the limited academic research on Special Operations.