How effective is the unconventional warfare practiced by US Army SF?

>>30301206
It is what it is. Unconventional war is just another way of saying hybrid-supported light infantry with extra sabotage and propaganda

From what I've read, there is a lot of corruption, backstabbing, and incompetence, with some success stories mixed in. Very rarely are the men they train any good because of culture differences. You can't shake off a people's laziness or general lack of attention to detail with only a few weeks or months of training. There are just some things that need to be ingrained in cultures for them to be effective soldiers.

>>30301206
Obviously not at all. The U.S. has lost every single war in which USASF have played a role.

>>30301907
Because the politician-generals misused their assets.

They hoped SF could be used to develop indigenous opposition forces, or do surgical strikes to quietly take out the C4IM, such as it is, but the enemy are too numerous, decentralized, and politically unstable.

ISIS, for example, demands carpet bombing. Arc Light strikes. Curtis LeMay's wet dream. But the present administration cannot have any more boots on the ground if they are to stay on script, so try to send 10 green beanies to do the job of 100 grunts.

No-Go.

>>30302490
arclight all day baby

>>30301206
It's an ingenious system. Unconventional ware fare creates allies today that could be enemies tomorrow. Those enemies will need to be defeated with new allies, and so on and so forth. Green berets have Perfected the art of warfare and being able to maintain job security by creating future enemies for themselves to kill

>>30306635
*warfare

>>30306635
>mfw we farm foreigners to kill and sacrifice to the gods of war

The /k/ube smiles this day lads

>>30301206
How did Bay of Pigs go?

>>30307622
Horrible, because of a President who was soft on communism. You can bet your ass Eisenhower would have given full air support.

>>30306635
It's like when you're absolutely stomping a team in a multiplayer game, but you let them come a tiny bit out of the spawn to give some false hope

And then you go right on back to raping them.

>>30301206
Wow. There is a crap load of hog wash in this thread. I'm amazed people actually believe this garbage.