Ssf force

Military unit The 1st Special Service Force was an elite American–Canadian The modern American and Canadian History [ ] Background [ ] While working for the British In Norway, the chief industrial threat was the creation of the Project Plough [ ] In March 1942 Pyke proposed an idea, which he had named Project Plough, to However, given the demands upon both Combined Operations and British industry, it was decided to offer it instead to the United States at the Chequers Conference of March 1942. General In May 1942, the concept papers for Plough were scrutinized by Major Generals Marshall and Eisenhower had already discussed Plough with the British High Command and were unwilling to compromise a chance to open an American front in Europe. It was believed that Plough offered the possibility of defeating the Germans, and the Americans wanted allied efforts to shift to the Pacific Theater. The sooner the Germans were defeated, it was argued, the sooner this would become a reality. The first officer picked to lead the unit, Lieutenant Colonel The First Special Service Force was activated on 9 July 1942 as a joint Canadian-U.S. force of three small regiments and a service battalion, directly answerable to the joint Chiefs of Staff. U.S. Army. Frederick enjoyed a very high priority in obtaining equipment and training areas. Originally, due to its winter warfare mission, it had been intended that the unit should be equally made up of American, Canadian, and Norwegian troops. Howeve...

The crest of the Sultan's Special Force (officer's beret badge) Country Allegiance Branch Sultan's Armed Forces Type Size 2000 HQ SSF Al Azaiba, Muscat, Oman Motto(s) !من يتجرأ ينتصر Colors Anniversaries 15 March Commanders Commander SSF Major General Muslim bin Mohammed bin Taman Jaaboub Supreme Commander HM Sultan Haitham bin Tariq Al Said Notable commanders Brigadier Tony Hunter-Choat OBE Major General Amir bin Salim al Amri The Sultan's Special Force (SSF) — قوات السلطان الخاصة, Qawat al-Sultaniya al-Khasah is a separate force branch within the The SSF was created based on the lessons learned in a successful (if not lengthy) prosecution of a counter insurgency campaign in the History of the Force [ ] During the The SSF was developed from the most able of the Dhofari In 1985 the Sultan authorized a medal to recognise the service of SSF personnel; known as the Special Service Medal of the Sultan's Special Forces ( Midal al-Khidmat al-Khasat Qawat al-Sultaniya al-Khasat). Brigadier Organisation [ ] The SSF is split geographically into two units with operational elements based in the The SSF is trained, equipped and exercised in Cobra based in the north and south of the country, Cobra team works closely with the In the late 1990s the SSF were also involved in patrolling and observation duties in the Sultanate's [ failed verification] The SSF has limited responsibilities in counter smuggling and border patrolling. Base locations [ ] This section possibly contains Please ( J...

• v • t • e The People's Liberation Army Strategic Support Force ( PLASSF; 中国人民解放军战略支援部队) is the With an aim to improve the army's ability to fight what China terms "informationized conflicts" ( 信息化战争; xìnxīhuà zhànzhēng) and enhance the PLA's power projection capabilities in space and History [ ] At the Liberation Army Daily, reported that as part of the joint military exercises taking place that same year, strategic and logistical support forces were included in those exercises along with Intelligence and other high-profile units among the Central Military Commission. [ citation needed] On 31 December 2015, the PLA Strategic Support Force held its first annual meeting at the Bayi Building in Beijing. In attendance were the CMC leadership and leaders of the PLA Ground Force and Rocket Force. CMC Chairman Xi Jinping was also in attendance, giving out military flags and instructional speeches, along with CMC Vice Chairmen and CCP Political Department members On 1 January 2016, the next day, Yang Yujun of the Chinese Ministry of National Defense issued a statement on the new Strategic Support Force describing it as formed by the "functional integration" of various support forces that are strategic, basic, and supportive. Another expert, Rear Admiral The major mission of the PLA Strategic Support Force is to give support to the combat operations so that the Specifically, the objectives of the strategic support force were to include: [ citation needed] • target acquisition • r...

Ater World War II ended, a group of Fort Ord-based army officers were enjoying a drink in their favorite bar, under the Sausalito end of the Golden Gate Bridge, when a policeman walked in. His eyes scanned the dimly lit, smoky interior and settled on something that seemed out of place–a soldier with a mustache and two silver stars on each shoulder who looked much too young to be a major general. He was obviously an impostor. Approaching him, the policeman asked to see some identification. The officer complied, handing his ID card to the policeman. The cop glanced at the photo on it and the rank–major general. ‘Damned good forgery,’ the cop told himself as he flipped the card onto the grimy floor. A split second later, the policeman was lying next to the ID card, his jaw already beginning to swell from the force of the blow that had just been delivered by the mustachioed general. The young man wearing two stars was, in fact, Maj. Gen. Robert T. Frederick, creator and commander of the 1st Special Service Force, one of the most feared–and most fearless–fighting units ever assembled. Robert Tryon Frederick, son of a San Francisco doctor, impressed almost no one during his four years at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. He graduated 124th out of a class of 250 in 1928. The best that could be said of him was that he was an excellent organizer. The academy yearbook, The Howitzer, was not exactly effusive in its description of Frederick: ‘He has a natural and a modest perso...

As U.S. leaders China’s rival to U.S. Cyber Command, the ambiguously named Strategic Support Force (SSF), is quietly growing at a time when the country’s sizable military is striving toexcel in the digital domain. Though the American government is widely considered to be one of the premier hacking powers — alongside Israel, Germany, Russia and the United Kingdom — China is rapidly catching up by following a drastically different model. The SSF uniquely conducts several different missions simultaneously that in the U.S. would behappening atthe National Security Agency, Army, Air Force, Department of Homeland Security, NASA, State Department and Cyber Command, among others. If you combined all of those government entitiesand added companies like Intel, Boeing and Google to the mix, then you would come close to how the SSF is built to operate. Examining the development of the SSF in relation to Cyber Command provides a view of how two of the world’s most influential countries see the future of conflict. The U.S. agencyis a similarly nascent organization but with a more narrow focus andthree definitive missions: to protect Defense Department networks, to launch computer network attacks in support of combatant commanders and to “ After two years in development, China’s SSF is now positioned to surpass its U.S. counterpart in capabilities — a position that seemed unattainable a decade ago. Blurred weapons National security analysts and former U.S. defense officials believe the S...

This report explores the missions and organization of China's military space enterprise, focusing on the People's Liberation Army (PLA) Strategic Support Force (SSF), created in 2015 to develop and employ most of the PLA's space capabilities. Its main function appears to be launch and operation of satellites to provide C4ISR capabilities critical to strategic deterrence, fighting informatized wars, and countering U.S. military intervention. Research Questions • What are the missions and organization of China's newly created SSF? • What is the role of the SSF, especially in regard to the PLA's use of space? • What are the implications of the creation of the SSF for China's emerging aerospace expeditionary and power projection capabilities? This report explores the missions and organization of China's military space enterprise, focusing on the organizational structure of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) Strategic Support Force (SSF). Created on December 31, 2015, as part of a major reorganization of China's military, the SSF is charged with developing and employing most of the PLA's space capabilities. Its creation signifies a shift in the PLA's prioritization of space and an increased role for PLA space capabilities. Chinese military strategists see military space capabilities and operations as a key component of strategic deterrence, critical to enabling the PLA to fight informatized local wars and counter U.S. military intervention in the region and essential for suppor...

VIRIN: 181002-D-BD104-005 In late 2015, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) initiated reforms that have brought dramatic changes to its structure, model of warfighting, and organizational culture, including the creation of a Strategic Support Force (SSF) that centralizes most PLA space, cyber, electronic, and psychological warfare capabilities. The reforms come at an inflection point as the PLA seeks to pivot from land-based territorial defense to extended power projection to protect Chinese interests in the “strategic frontiers” of space, cyberspace, and the far seas. Understanding the new strategic roles of the SSF is essential to understanding how the PLA plans to fight and win informationized wars and how it will conduct information operations. • The SSF combines assorted space, cyber, electronic, and psychological warfare capabilities from across the PLA services and its former General Departments. • In addition to expected efficiency gains from this approach, the SSF was created to build new synergies between disparate capabilities that enable specific types of strategic information operations (IO) missions expected to be decisive in future wars. • Despite a lack of transparency and the fact that the SSF is still in transition, a coherent picture has emerged of how the SSF’s components fit together and the strategic roles and missions they are intended to fulfill. The SSF reports to the Central Military Commission (CMC) and oversees two co-equal, semi-independent bran...