The Special Forces Identity Crisis and Rethinking All of Special Operations
Published on 2/9/2026
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Continuing the discourse surrounding a U.S. Army Special Forces (SF) "identity crisis," this commentary discusses how decades of structural imbalance and Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) dominance have fractured the U.S. Special Operations Forces (SOF) community. Retired Lt. Col. Greg Banner claims that JSOC has monopolized the roles and responsibilities of all SOF, leading to an identity crisis enterprise-wide not just among SF, and makes the case to restructure how the U.S. organizes, employs, and values all of its elite forces.
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