Conceptual organizational and functional models of the Army Special Operations Forces in the leading NATO countries

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The timely character of the article is in the necessity of further development of the theory of the deployment of Special Operations Forces in wars and military conflicts of today’s world. Nowadays the new type of conflict does not present considerable and noticeable danger but it presents dissipated and interconnected threats and risks.
As far as the deployment of the armed forces only is no longer able to resist these new challenges, leaders of the countries strive to enlarge their military capabilities with flexible means of rapid response which ensure more freedom of operations and present new operational capabilities in addition to conventional operations.
Special Operations Forces are unable to provide a positive outcome in either large-scale or local war themselves. But it is impossible to imagine a modern war or counterterrorist operation without the participation of special operations units and formations. Furthermore, the “informational aspect” of combat actions, control systems, military, industrial, administrative objects located behind the lines, and the expansion of terroristic organizations, and frequent use of “guerrilla” tactics of small high-mobility groups inflicting quick blows and quickly disappearing, comes into great importance. All this enhances the importance of Special Operations Forces.
The article considers conceptual organizational and functional models of the Army Special Operations Forces in the leading NATO countries (the USA, Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy).