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TACTICAL VICTORY, STRATEGIC FAILURE? SPECIAL OPERATIONS FORCES AS AN INSTRUMENT OF REALPOLITIK

Annals: Series on Military Sciences
The article analyzes the relationship between the tactical effectiveness of Special Operations Forces (SOF) and their capacity to generate durable strategic outcomes when employed as instruments of realpolitik.
Colonel (ret.) Doru – Constantin TOCILĂ, Ph.D
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Non‐Additive Criteria Assessment in Sustainability Evaluation of High Entropy Alloys: A Toxicity‐Weighted Framework

Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
Sustainability assessment requires methodologies that appropriately distinguish between additive and non‐additive material properties. A toxicity‐weighted scoring system is developed and applied that accounts for the disproportionate influence of highly toxic constituents through nonlinear weighting functions, providing more realistic estimates than ...
Seth Mehalic, Oladele A. Ogunseitan, Julie M. Schoenung   +2 more
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Prioritizing SOF Counter-Threat Financing Efforts in the Digital Domain

The Cyber Defense Review, 2020
Threat financing describes how threat actors move, manage, and raise funds to support their specific goals. One emerging challenge for Special Operations Forces (SOF) support to counterterrorism missions is digital threat financing.
Hugh Harsono
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Entropy‐Driven Design of Low‐Melting‐Point Alloys via Compositionally Complex Strategy

Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
Conventional low‐melting‐point alloys (LMPAs) are limited by a narrow compositional space and inherent property trade‐offs. This review presents an entropy‐driven design strategy that overcomes these limitations, ushering in a new class of low‐melting‐point compositionally complex alloys (LMCCAs).
Yinghui Shang, Jianxiang Zhao, Zhaoqi Chen, Hao Gong, Yinsen Yan, Junlei Tao, Yong Yang   +6 more
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Fabrication Routes for Ionic Conducting Fiber Strain Sensors

Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
Ionic conducting fiber strain sensors (ICFSs) offer compliant, textile‐integrable sensing. Thus far, the commercialization of ICFSs has been constrained by fiber fabrication routes. This review provides a fabrication‐centric analysis of ICFSs correlating processing strategies with material properties and scalability.
Leo John Kershaw, Zhanhong Yang, Anne Ladegaard Skov, Magdalena Skowyra   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The role of Army National Guard Special Forces domestically and in Special Operations Command - North [PDF]

, 2014
The Army National Guard Special Forces has a unique position that allows state governors to call upon the group to support domestic operations and provide additional forces for the United States Army Special Forces Command when needed.
East, Peter B.
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FastNano Liquid: An Automated Platform for Small‐Angle X‐ray Scattering‐Based Materials Discovery

Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
We present FastNano Liquid, an automated small‐ and wide‐angle X‐ray scattering platform for the combined synthesis and characterization of (nano)materials. The platform is coupled to varied reactor workflows for both in situ studies of reaction kinetics and ex situ screening of synthesis conditions to support machine learning‐guided exploration ...
Pierre‐Baptiste Flandrin, Émeline Cournède, Jens Krarup, Michael Lesa, Foyzul Hasan, Amandine Séné, Arnaud Lahouati, David Benhaiem, Jérémie‐Luc Sanchez, Simon Delacroix, Thierry Gacoin, Fabienne Testard, Damien Faivre, David Carriere, Corinne Chevallard, Olivier Taché, Mark A. Levenstein   +16 more
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Fitness profile and training of Special Operation Forces: a comparison with sports athletes

Frontiers in Sports and Active Living
IntroductionTactical athletes of Special Operations Forces personnel face diverse, high-risk demands—from explosive power actions and maximal strength tasks to prolonged endurance efforts and rapid decision making under stress.
Alain Dössegger, Alain Dössegger, Thomas Gsponer, Martin Flück, Martin Flück, Christian Protte, Christian Protte, Thomas Wyss, Eric Häusler, Markus Gerber, Oliver Faude   +10 more
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Special operations forces in Afghanistan

, 2008
Intelligence specialist Leigh Neville identifies, describes and illustrates the Special Operations Forces (SOF) of the US and other Allied (Coalition) forces committed to the "War on Terror" in Afghanistan since 2001, providing a fascinating insight into
Neville, Leigh
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Intermediate Resistive State in Wafer‐Scale Vertical MoS2 Memristors Through Lateral Silver Filament Growth for Artificial Synapse Applications

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
In MOCVD MoS2 memristors, a current compliance‐regulated Ag filament mechanism is revealed. The filament ruptures spontaneously during volatile switching, while subsequent growth proceeds vertically through the MoS2 layers and then laterally along the van der Waals gaps during nonvolatile switching.
Yuan Fa, Milan Buttberg, Ke Ran, Rana Walied Ahmad, Dennis Braun, Lukas Völkel, Jimin Lee, Sofía Cruces, Bart Macco, Bárbara Canto, Holger Lerch, Thorsten Wahlbrink, Holger Kalisch, Michael Heuken, Andrei Vescan, Joachim Mayer, Zhenxing Wang, Ilia Valov, Stephan Menzel, Max C. Lemme   +19 more
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