Here is my radical new proposal.
Disband USSOCOM in Tampa. Make JSOC a stand alone combatant command (4 star) and responsible for the CT and CP mission
Establish a new HQ for SOF (less JSOC) in DC with a Secretary of SOF (civilian SECSOF) and a Chief of Special Operations (CSO - uniformed 4 star). Have the new SOF HQ exercise its service like HQ responsibilities and give the new Chief of SOF a seat in the tank with the Chairman (i.e., add him to the Joint Chiefs). Make the TSOCs 3 Star Commands and the main effort for SOF employment in theater. I think that would realize Congress' vision in Nunn-Cohen and it would take the new Section 922 of the 2018 NDAA to its logical conclusion.
I concur and after all the years since the NDAA and the amendment, it is time to get things straight so that SOF is not surreptitiously controlled by the services. A lot of research and a monograph later and I realize consensus prevented from reaching the best solution.
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