Also interesting.

[Steve1839]

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

 

[AWP]

No mention of Det A?

 

[Steve1839]

No mention of Det A?

Based on the author's service time line, I'm thinking Det A and PSSE were long gone...

 

[Gunz]

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.