The Defense Department has launched a set of new initiatives called for in its "irregular warfare" roadmap, a classified playbook for how the U.S. military will improve its capability to deal with unconventional security challenges, according to DOD officials. The "Irregular Warfare Execution Roadmap," approved by Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England in April, "represents a concerted effort to transform how we manage and train our forces and to rebalance our general purpose forces and special operations forces to meet the...
