FOX NEWS: Air Force Special Operations pivots strategy toward major power warfare

Air Force Special Operations pivots strategy toward major power warfare



Attacking enemy fighters in close-air-support aircraft, using ground-based laser designators to “paint” targets for aircraft and training friendly forces for the rigors of high-casualty close-in combat -- are all U.S. Air Force Special Operations Force skills tested and refined during the last decade and a half of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.