Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
Share REDSOF Cross Functional Team: Enhancing Interoperability in Special Operations Part 2 (Ep. 23)
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Or
REDSOF Cross Functional Team: Enhancing Interoperability in Special Operations Part 2 (Ep. 23)
This is part two for a four-part series focused on how
Special Forces, Civil Affairs, and Psychological Operations integrate and interoperate at the team/Detachment level. During a recent rotation, a Special Forces Operational Detachment-Alpha, Civil Affairs Team, and Tactical PSYOP Detachment conducted operations at the National Training Center (NTC) as Opposing Force (OPFOR). This cross functional team approach to REDSOF was the first iteration of its kind and yield effective results on the rotational conventional unit and Special Operations unit.
During this interview, the leaders of each element will describe how each ARSOF Tribe integrated and interoperated to achieve their endstate.
About the Guests:
Spencer: Detachment Sergeant for the Tactical PSYOP
Detachment (TPD) on REDSOF. He has over 15 years of Army experience, 8 of which are SOF PSYOP. Multiple operational rotations in both conventional and SOF units.
Michael: Team Leader of the REDSOF Civil Affairs Team (CAT).
Former Infantry officer with e multiple CTC rotations both on BLUEFOR and REDFOR.
Andrew: SFOD-A Detachment Commander for REDSOF SFOD-A. From 10th Special Forces Group, SOF operational experience in SOCEUR. Former Infantry officer.
About the Host:
CPT Weston Rich is a member of SOF Plans at the NTC and
former member of Burro Team, the Special Operations Training Detachment OC/T Team at NTC. Prior to his time at NTC, Weston served as a Detachment Commander with 1st SFG (A) and as an Infantry Officer with 3-509th IN (ABN)/4/25 ID (now part of 2/11 ABN DIV). Following his time at NTC, Weston will attend Carnegie Mellon University with a follow-on assignment to Army Futures Command.
This episode covers:
- Cross functional team mentality; not drawing lots for
ground force commander, but working together, effectiveness was measured off
creating dilemmas in the enemy’s rear area across the civil and informational dimensions
- Interdependence and interoperability especially between CA and PSYOP, linking the human dimension to the information dimension then bringing that to the cross functional team enabling lethal and non-lethal targeting
- Cross functional targeting, task organizing the cross functional team, split team operations increased speed but degraded integrated planning
- Communication architecture issues within SOF tribe
integration, integrating SOF tribes in garrison to enhance SOF tribe integration at tactical and operational levels
- Integrating with conventional forces, building trust and developing a network with everyone you can, “always be (re)cruiting “
- Staff processes approached by war fighting function, CA and PSYOP fill in with war fighting functions
- You look at the picture from your foxhole, meaning each person sees the situation differently and identifies different things as important
- Speed of decision-making process and ability to maintain tempo enables momentum and stay on the offensive, “If you’re not first, you’re last” layered narrative building
Please like, subscribe, and share these episodes with ARSOF any conventional Soldiers and Leaders to spread the knowledge of ARSOF in LSCO.
To provide feedback please email the host, CPT Rich, at [email protected].
Produced, edited, and sound engineering by Micah Popp of
Salty Sounds
View all episodes
By Burro Team
4.2
55 ratings
This is part two for a four-part series focused on how
Special Forces, Civil Affairs, and Psychological Operations integrate and interoperate at the team/Detachment level. During a recent rotation, a Special Forces Operational Detachment-Alpha, Civil Affairs Team, and Tactical PSYOP Detachment conducted operations at the National Training Center (NTC) as Opposing Force (OPFOR). This cross functional team approach to REDSOF was the first iteration of its kind and yield effective results on the rotational conventional unit and Special Operations unit.
During this interview, the leaders of each element will describe how each ARSOF Tribe integrated and interoperated to achieve their endstate.
About the Guests:
Spencer: Detachment Sergeant for the Tactical PSYOP
Detachment (TPD) on REDSOF. He has over 15 years of Army experience, 8 of which are SOF PSYOP. Multiple operational rotations in both conventional and SOF units.
Michael: Team Leader of the REDSOF Civil Affairs Team (CAT).
Former Infantry officer with e multiple CTC rotations both on BLUEFOR and REDFOR.
Andrew: SFOD-A Detachment Commander for REDSOF SFOD-A. From 10th Special Forces Group, SOF operational experience in SOCEUR. Former Infantry officer.
About the Host:
CPT Weston Rich is a member of SOF Plans at the NTC and
former member of Burro Team, the Special Operations Training Detachment OC/T Team at NTC. Prior to his time at NTC, Weston served as a Detachment Commander with 1st SFG (A) and as an Infantry Officer with 3-509th IN (ABN)/4/25 ID (now part of 2/11 ABN DIV). Following his time at NTC, Weston will attend Carnegie Mellon University with a follow-on assignment to Army Futures Command.
This episode covers:
- Cross functional team mentality; not drawing lots for
ground force commander, but working together, effectiveness was measured off
creating dilemmas in the enemy’s rear area across the civil and informational dimensions
- Interdependence and interoperability especially between CA and PSYOP, linking the human dimension to the information dimension then bringing that to the cross functional team enabling lethal and non-lethal targeting
- Cross functional targeting, task organizing the cross functional team, split team operations increased speed but degraded integrated planning
- Communication architecture issues within SOF tribe
integration, integrating SOF tribes in garrison to enhance SOF tribe integration at tactical and operational levels
- Integrating with conventional forces, building trust and developing a network with everyone you can, “always be (re)cruiting “
- Staff processes approached by war fighting function, CA and PSYOP fill in with war fighting functions
- You look at the picture from your foxhole, meaning each person sees the situation differently and identifies different things as important
- Speed of decision-making process and ability to maintain tempo enables momentum and stay on the offensive, “If you’re not first, you’re last” layered narrative building
Please like, subscribe, and share these episodes with ARSOF any conventional Soldiers and Leaders to spread the knowledge of ARSOF in LSCO.
To provide feedback please email the host, CPT Rich, at [email protected].
Produced, edited, and sound engineering by Micah Popp of
Salty Sounds
More shows like Off the Radar, Special Operations Training Detachment
View all
Emergency Medicine Cases
544 Listeners
War on the Rocks
1,077 Listeners
The Daily
112,263 Listeners
Aviation News Talk – Pilot Stories, Safety Tips & General Aviation News
780 Listeners
One CA Podcast
38 Listeners
The Shawn Ryan Show
46,070 Listeners
The Team House
1,662 Listeners
Irregular Warfare Podcast
410 Listeners
Huberman Lab
29,378 Listeners
CoROM cast. Wilderness, Austere, Remote and Resource-limited Medicine.
10 Listeners
MOPs & MOEs
96 Listeners
Tier1 Podcast
161 Listeners