Found this little nugget while waiting for other files to download...
Should I Stay or Should I Go? Stay-Behind Force Decision-Making - War on the Rocks
Should I Stay or Should I Go? Stay-Behind Force Decision-Making - War on the Rocks
Also interesting.
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I’m surprised the author didn’t mention a famous example of a successful and largely non-SOF stay-behind force, the Aussie and Kiwi coast watchers in the Solomons. They stayed hidden in the jungles and mountains on Japanese occupied islands, utilized natives as scouts, maintained vital comm with allied forces providing real-time intel of Japanese movements and incoming air raids.
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Posting this here vs. starting another thread. The article on polar SOF that I co-authored with a close friend was published today through the Irregular Warfare Initiative (IWI).
