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<ul class="summary-list"><li>Israel confirmed it launched a "limited" ground offensive against Hezbollah targets in Lebanon.</li><li>The IDF said Tuesday it began "limited, localized, and targeted ground raids" a few hours ago.</li></ul>The Israeli military said on Tuesday that it launched a "limited" ground offensive against Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon.The announcement officially opens up a new front in the escalating conflict between Israel and the Iran-backed militant group, which have <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/wider-war-hezbollah-could-unleash-unprecedented-missile-barrage-against-israel-2024-7">traded cross-border strikes</a> on a near-daily basis for almost a year."In accordance with the decision of the political echelon, a few hours ago, the IDF began limited, localized, and targeted ground raids based on precise intelligence against Hezbollah terrorist targets and infrastructure in southern Lebanon," the Israeli military said in a statement early Tuesday morning local time."These targets are located in villages close to the border and pose an immediate threat to Israeli communities in northern Israel," it added.Fighting between the Israeli military and Hezbollah has displaced tens of thousands of people on both sides of the border. However, Israel has increased its military pressure on its foe over the past two weeks with the aim of eventually returning people to their homes.These efforts began with Israel's <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/hezbollah-pager-attacks-reveal-textbook-covert-operation-ex-spies-say-2024-9">sophisticated pager attacks</a> and have transitioned to a <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/israel-hezbollah-massive-strikes-headquarters-nasrallah-lebanon-2024-9">campaign of intense and deadly airstrikes</a>, including one that <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/israel-likely-used-bunker-buster-bombs-strike-kill-hezbollah-chief-2024-9">killed Hezbollah leader</a> Hassan Nasrallah on Friday.Israeli officials on Monday hinted that a ground invasion was imminent.

Israel launches ground operation into Lebanon to destroy Hezbollah strongholds

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Fires at DHL warehouses this year may have been part of Russian sabotage operations, officials have said.</li><li>The Kremlin is suspected of ramping up hybrid attacks on Europe in recent months.</li></ul><a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/spy-chief-warns-suspected-sabotage-nearly-caused-plane-crash-2024-10">Suspected Russian sabotage activities</a> targeting the air freight industry have been on the rise this year, and the industry is preparing for further action.Brandon Fried, the executive director of the Airforwarders Association, which represents US air cargo companies, told Business Insider that the industry had been on high alert since 9/11."So regardless of who is perpetrating this, whether it's another country or whether it's a terrorist organization, our industry has been vigilant for quite some time," he said, referencing two fires at DHL warehouses earlier this year that have been linked to Russia."They want to cause fear and panic, but we, as a community, are not going to let them. One of our overriding messages is that we're vigilant," Fried said.Western officials have said the <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/spy-chief-warns-suspected-sabotage-nearly-caused-plane-crash-2024-10">fires, which took place at two DHL sites in the UK and Germany</a> in July, may have been part of Russian sabotage operations that ultimately aimed to target North America, <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.wsj.com/world/russia-plot-us-planes-incendiary-devices-de3b8c0a">The Wall Street Journal</a> reported earlier this week.One package caught fire before being loaded onto a plane at a DHL freight center in Leipzig, eastern Germany, while a similar incident took place at a DHL warehouse in Birmingham in the UK.Thomas Haldenwang, the president of Germany's domestic intelligence agency, said in October that it was a "lucky coincidence" that the package in Leipzig caught fire on the ground and not during the flight.Haldenwang did not explicitly blame Moscow, but the German news agency DPA reported that security services were working on the assumption that the attack was connected to Russia, per the <a target="_blank" rel=" nofollow" class="" href="https://www.ft.com/content/b83353a7-bdf0-486b-8f12-d2834261d44f">Financial Times</a>.A police spokesperson told BI that counterterrorism officers were leading an investigation into the Birmingham incident and working to identify any links to similar incidents across the continent.The Wall Street Journal report said the fires were caused by electric massagers implanted with a magnesium-based flammable substance.The devices that ignited in the UK were traced to Lithuania, where officials say they appear to have been part of a wider Russian plot to get such devices on planes to North America, the Journal reported.Frank Umbach, a research director at the European Cluster for Climate, Energy, and Resource Security at the University of Bonn, said that Russian hybrid warfare had escalated from spying on critical infrastructure to active sabotage across the whole of Europe."Hybrid warfare has intensified here in Europe, particularly against Germany," Umbach said, adding that there was concern that German intelligence services had been "heavily penetrated" by Russian agents.Moscow has already been linked to a number of <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/russian-sabotage-germany-factory-weapons-car-parts-ukraine-diehl-2024-6">sabotage incidents</a> in Europe this year, including arson attempts and a reported plan to <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-planned-to-assassinate-german-arms-firm-ceo-report-2024-7">kill the CEO of the German arms firm Rheinmetall, </a>which has made munitions and military equipment for Ukraine.Russia is suspected of using <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.occrp.org/en/investigation/make-a-molotov-cocktail-how-europeans-are-recruited-through-telegram-to-commit-sabotage-arson-and-murder">social media platforms such as Telegram</a> to recruit proxies to carry out such activities.Speaking a few months after the DHL fires, the chief of the UK's MI6 intelligence service, Richard Moore, said he believed Russian intelligence services had "gone a bit feral."And experts think it's unlikely such incidents will stop any time soon.Shashank Joshi, a former senior research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute who is now the defense editor at The Economist, told BI that he believed the suspected Russian sabotage operations were part of a "pretty broad-brush campaign" that could see the Kremlin target any EU or NATO member."I don't think that anyone is particularly immune as such," Joshi said.A spokesperson for Germany's Military Counterintelligence Service, known as BAMAD, said that the German military and NATO forces in Germany "continue to be a priority target for Russian espionage activities."Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov has denied Russia's involvement in sabotage operations in Europe.The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Germany's domestic intelligence services, and the BND declined to comment further.<div type="image" title="The RT logo at the company's headquarters in Moscow." height="683" width="1024" msid="115082510" hostid="261" sizebytes="75584"></div>Western officials say Moscow has also launched <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/news/russia-behind-cyber-attack-with-europe-wide-impact-hour-before-ukraine-invasion">cyberattacks</a> and sought to <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.state.gov/disarming-disinformation/">spread disinformation</a> as part of its alleged sabotage operations.Russian state media sites like RT have already faced sanctions in the <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.state.gov/alerting-the-world-to-rts-global-covert-activities/">US</a> and the <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2022/03/02/eu-imposes-sanctions-on-state-owned-outlets-rtrussia-today-and-sputnik-s-broadcasting-in-the-eu/">EU</a> over allegations of disinformation.Keir Giles, a senior consulting fellow at Chatham House's Russia and Eurasia Program, said that Russian disinformation campaigns, espionage operations, and sabotage attempts were "intimately interlinked.""Objectives in the information domain can be served by kinetic actions and vice versa," Giles said. "The information component of warfare is seen as an integral part and interdependent with all of the other activities that Russia is undertaking.""That's something that's played out very clearly in Russia's war on Ukraine after the full-scale invasion," he added.

The air freight industry is on high alert after fires at DHL warehouses were linked to Russian sabotage operations

The Delhi <keyword id="19900812" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="high-court" source="keywords">High Court</keyword> has refused to set aside the Central government's order blocking open-source messaging application '<keyword id="22332861" type="General" weightage="100" keywordseo="Briar" source="keywords">Briar</keyword>' in <keyword id="19900657" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Jammu-and-Kashmir" source="keywords">Jammu and Kashmir</keyword> as it is suspected to be used by <keyword id="19900658" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="terrorists" source="keywords">terrorists</keyword> and could be a potential <keyword id="19968363" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="threat" source="keywords">threat</keyword> to <keyword id="19896999" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="national-security" source="keywords">national security</keyword>. The high court observed that in the matters of national security, principles of natural justice can be given a go-by. "The interim order has been reviewed by the committee constituted under Section 7 of the Blocking Rules and as stated earlier, the committee consists of top officials of the Government of India. The blocking orders have been passed for 14 applications/ softwares, including the software/ application of the petitioner herein as it was being used by the terrorists and their supporters to disturb the security and sovereignty of the country. "The application of the petitioner has been blocked only in Jammu and <keyword id="19896255" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="kashmir" source="keywords">Kashmir</keyword> and the same can be used in all other parts of the country. In view of the above, this court is not inclined to entertain the present writ petition. Accordingly, the writ petition is dismissed," Justice Subramonium Prasad said. Sublime Software Ltd, the petitioner, sought direction to the Centre to produce and publish the order passed by it under Section 69A of the Information <keyword id="19901571" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="technology" source="keywords">Technology</keyword> Act, blocking its open-source messaging application 'Briar' and also prayed for setting aside that order. It was stated that Briar operates on a technology in which a person can directly send a message to another person even when there is no internet connectivity. It added that the technology is crucial in times of emergency, natural calamities and catastrophic disasters in providing emergency healthcare and disaster management as it enables smooth communication between persons and authorities during times of distress. On the other hand, the Centre's counsel submitted that the software, which can work even when there is no internet connection, is suspected to be used by terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir. The application can be misused and can definitely be a potential threat to the national security, sovereignty and integrity of India, the Centre's counsel said. The high court in its order noted that rule 16 of the Blocking Rules provides that strict confidentiality shall be maintained regarding all the requests and complaints received and actions taken thereof. "This court can take judicial notice of the fact that decisions taken at the highest level and for the benefit of the security and sovereignty of the country can be kept confidential," it said.

HC dismisses plea to set aside order blocking messaging app in J&K over threat to national security

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Elon Musk said recently that "two homicidal maniacs" had threatened his life.</li><li>Law-enforcement records show Tesla's HQ has had several "terroristic threat" reports.</li></ul>In recent months, "two homicidal maniacs" have threatened to kill <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-ceo-elon-musk">Elon Musk</a>, the billionaire tech mogul said at Tesla's latest annual shareholder meeting."I probably need to like work out and, you know, and like not get assassinated or something," the CEO of the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-features">electric-car company</a> told shareholders June 13 in response to a question about what he's doing to keep himself safe and healthy.Musk said the two people "aspirationally" tried to kill him and "a bunch of other people" in the past seven months, forcing him to be a bit more "standoffish."Security is a high priority for Musk. He owns his own security company, which <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla">Tesla</a> pays millions of dollars to protect Musk, a recent Securities and Exchange Commission filing shows.The company has relatively tight security, and security has been increased at some of its factories in the wake of recent <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-layoffs">Tesla layoffs</a>, several workers told Business Insider. Tesla factory workers have also faced their fair share of scares over the years, including, most recently, an active-shooter report that turned out to be a false alarm.Law-enforcement records obtained by BI through a public-records request show that Musk has not been the only high-profile target of threats or intimidation at <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-headquarters-hq">Tesla's sprawling corporate headquarters</a> in Austin.<div type="image" title="Zachary Kirkhorn wearing a black button-down shirt while sitting next to Elon Musk with his hands over his lap." height="1266" width="1593" msid="111286753" hostid="261"></div>In March 2023, Tesla's chief financial officer at the time, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-cfo-zachary-kirkhorn-rumored-elon-musk-ceo-successor-leaving-2023-8">Zachary Kirkhorn</a> — who board members considered making Musk's successor before he <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/zachary-kirkhorn-elon-musk-tesla-quit-13-years-gene-munster-2023-8">unexpectedly resigned</a> — received a death threat via email, according to 911 records and a sheriff's office incident report viewed by BI. The missive demanded $300,000 in bitcoin not to end his life.The Travis County Sheriff's Office described the incident as a "terroristic threat" in its report, the documents show, though ultimately law enforcement believed it to be a scam.Under Texas law, terroristic threats include threats of violence that are intended to put people in fear of imminent bodily injury, cause a reaction by an emergency agency, or interrupt a place of employment.Other records from the sheriff's office obtained by BI show that at least five other 911 calls were made from Tesla's HQ between the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-elon-musk-gigafactory-texas-cyber-rodeo-2022-4">opening of the Austin Gigafactory</a> in April 2022 and January of this year for what law enforcement also categorized as terroristic threats. The sheriff's office is seeking to withhold the records for most of those incidents from BI.<h2 id="8794e4e2-1e9a-4bae-b733-e6f66dc7d19b">An email sender claimed they were 'hired to kill' Kirkhorn if he didn't step down</h2>In the case of Kirkhorn, a security officer at the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-gigafactory">Tesla Gigafactory</a> initially called 911 at the time to report the incident, according to the records. The security officer told deputies that the CFO had gotten an email from someone claiming to have been "hired to kill you if you don't step down," the report provided to BI said."Wire $300,000 dollars to bitcoin account within 12 hours," the email to Kirkhorn added, according to the incident report.The Tesla security officer told deputies the email was sent to multiple email addresses with variations of Kirkhorn's name, suggesting that the sender was attempting to guess his email address.The security officer also said he believed it was the "first threat" that Kirkhorn received by email, according to the report.In a second interview with deputies, the security officer told authorities his team was able to trace information in the threatening email back to Nigeria.A Travis County Sheriff's Office spokesperson, Kristen Dark, confirmed to BI that the email was found to have originated from Nigeria and was thought to be spam."Based on the spam email mail address it is likely a scam attempt," the incident report read. "This was brought to Kirkhorn's attention and he was ok with just documenting the situation. No further action needed."The case was ultimately suspended and no arrest was ever made, according to the incident report and Dark.Tesla and Kirkhorn did not respond to requests for comment.<div type="image" title="Cars frames on an assembly line in a long room." height="683" width="1024" msid="111286749" hostid="261"></div>Kirkhorn left Tesla last August after working at the carmaker for about 13 years. He held the title not only of CFO, but also "Master of Coin."His departure came as a shock to some. The Wall Street Journal had reported earlier that year that Kirkhorn could be in line to become <a target="_blank" href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/tesla-executive-elon-musk-cfo-zach-kirkhorn-b1998ae7?">the next CEO of Tesla</a>.<h2 id="e2017c4f-e393-47bf-af66-86a250b17754">Other 911 calls related to a threat against Musk and a Tesla employee</h2>One of the other 911 calls that the sheriff's office designated as a "terroristic threat" related to a report by a Tesla employee who said he was threatened in February 2023 by another worker while on the job. The suspect in that case was accused of threatening to pull the man off a forklift and "slap the shit" out of him, according to an incident report.The employee who made the report told deputies that he had been "advised to allow Tesla Security to work the incident first before attempting to file a police report" but that he got "tired of waiting on Tesla," the documents show.The case was closed after the accuser told deputies he no longer wished to pursue it, but he sought to get it reopened that July.Some Tesla workers told BI that tight production deadlines and the intensity of the work could sometimes create a high-pressure environment."Every time they ramped up production, I felt like a frog in a boiling pot of water," one former worker from the Austin factory said. "You could just feel the stress level at the factory shoot up, and sometimes that meant people were more likely to pop off or act out."Another 911 call that was made in January of this year and categorized as a terroristic threat related to a report of a Tesla employee threatening to kill Musk and US President Joe Biden. Travis County deputies responded to Tesla HQ at the time of the call.A day later, Justin Mathew McCauley of Minnesota was arrested on a felony charge of terroristic threat in connection to the incident. According to an arrest affidavit obtained by BI, security at Tesla alerted the Travis County Sheriff's Office of a threat made on McCauley's account on X, the social-media site owned by Musk."I will arrive in Texas, where the war has began on many fronts @X, @Tesla," one post said, according to the court documents. Another said, "@JoeBiden @X @Tesla @Elonmusk, I am planning to Kill all of you."According to the court papers, McCauley's wife notified deputies in Minnesota after he told her he was going to Texas and never coming back.McCauley was eventually stopped and arrested by Travis County deputies in Austin on January 28. He told them that he planned to go to the Gigafactory "to try and contact Elon Musk," the arrest affidavit says."Everything I did was completely insane. It seems like a bad dream," McCauley later told <a target="_blank" href="https://www.fox7austin.com/news/tela-employee-threaten-to-kill-elon-musk-president-biden-justin-mccauley">FOX 7 Austin</a> in an on-camera interview. The 32-year-old former Tesla worker said he was in a state of "psychosis."McCauley was jailed for roughly four weeks before he was released on bond March 1. His next court hearing in the case is scheduled for July 3. Attempts to reach McCauley on Monday and Tuesday were unsuccessful.The details surrounding the other three 911 calls from Tesla's headquarters — which records show were made in November 2022, March 2023, and November 2023 — and the dispositions of those calls, were not provided to BI. The sheriff's office said in a letter sent to BI that the records fell under privacy and open-investigation exemptions to the public-records law and has asked the Office of the Attorney General of Texas to weigh in.Dark, the Travis County Sheriff's Office spokesperson, told BI that the agency did not provide additional security services for the Tesla factory but would respond to emergencies there as it would any other location in the county."The Gigafactory is in our agency's jurisdiction and we respond to 911 calls for service," Dark said.<h2 id="3c81ce33-91ba-4e82-aa6a-7bb75908b9d6">Tesla employees say security is thorough</h2>Last July, the Travis County Sheriff's Office responded to a 911 call reporting an active shooter at the Austin Gigafactory. At the time, workers who were at the factory received a memo from Tesla telling them to take cover because of an "Active Attacker," two employees told BI."It was unsettling because no one really knew what was going on. We were just standing outside the building waiting to go back to work," one worker, who was there during the ordeal, told BI. The employee asked that they not be identified in this story, as they are not authorized to speak to the press, but BI has verified their employment.The sheriff's office <a target="_blank" href="https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/police-investigating-false-alarm-of-active-shooter-at-tesla-gigafactory/">told local news</a> at the time that the building was cleared and there was "nothing to substantiate the presence of a shooter at all."The false alarm wasn't the first scare at a Tesla factory.In 2021, a Tesla worker was fatally shot in the parking lot of the company's Fremont, California, factory after an altercation with a coworker who was later <a target="_blank" href="https://abc7news.com/tesla-shooting-victim-fremont-anothony-solima-factory-death/11350669/">charged</a> with murder.<div type="image" title="A parking lot in front of a large building with the Tesla logo on the side." height="683" width="1024" msid="111286747" hostid="261"></div>In April, Tesla appeared to tighten security at some of its factories after Musk told the staff he planned to eliminate more than 10% of the workforce.The day after the memo was sent out, some staff at Tesla's factory in Sparks, Nevada, waited in hours-long lines to get through a series of <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-factory-workers-discover-laid-off-security-badge-scans-sources-2024-4">badge checks</a>, and some workers found out they'd been laid off after security scanned their badges and sent them back home on shuttle buses, five current and former employees previously told BI.Several Tesla workers told BI it would be difficult for anyone to bring in a weapon or unauthorized personnel to access the company's factories.Factory workers in both Nevada and Texas go through at least three security checkpoints to enter their workplace, with badge checks on the shuttles in, and at the gate for those who drive into work, as well as at two separate points once they enter the building, four workers said.<div type="image" title="Elon Musk clasping his hands together." height="683" width="1024" msid="111286752" hostid="261"></div><h2 id="1b011f40-e1fc-41e5-b8f6-059ebd52ac3c">Musk has previously indicated his worries about personal safety</h2>Musk has expressed concern about his personal safety multiple times over the years and even talked about dying "under mysterious circumstances."The billionaire has also repeatedly attempted to take down a social-media account that <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/student-who-tracks-elon-musk-jet-not-concerned-potential-lawsuit-2022-12">tracked his private jet</a> travels, even threatening to sue the college student who ran the account after Musk said his son X had been followed by a "crazy stalker" because of the jet-tracking account.BI previously reported that <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musks-secret-austin-house-2024-4">Musk secretly bought a house</a> in 2022 after the address of a house he'd been renting became public knowledge and Musk found it to be "no longer private and secure for my family." A neighbor told BI earlier this year that the home had around-the-clock security.From December 2023 to February, Tesla shelled out about $3 million to Musk's security company, which represented only "a portion of the total cost of security services concerning Elon Musk," according to an SEC <a target="_blank" href="https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/1318605/000110465924048040/tm2326076d13_pre14a.htm">filing</a>.Security costs can include measures as varied as personal bodyguards or private planes, and Musk is one of many prominent executives spending millions over security concerns.In 2023, Meta approved a $14 million security allowance for its CEO, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg">Mark Zuckerberg</a>. The company spent over $24 million on expenses associated with Zuckerberg, including security and private travel, an SEC <a target="_blank" href="https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/0001326801/000132680124000034/meta-20240418.htm">filing</a> shows.<a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/meta">Meta</a> said in the filing that Zuckerberg had become "one of the most recognized executives in the world" and needed to be protected as a result. The company's longtime chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg, was also given a security budget.Tesla and Musk's other companies seem to have taken a similar approach. Last year, an engineer at Twitter, the social-media site that became known as X, told the BBC that Musk was followed around the company's headquarters by <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/bodyguards-accompany-elon-musk-twitter-headquarters-restroom-engineer-report-2023-3">at least two bodyguards</a> at all times."It is getting a little crazy these days," Musk said at the June 13 Tesla shareholder meeting. "To first approximation, the probability that a homicidal maniac will try to kill you is proportionate to how many homicidal maniacs hear your name.""So they hear my name a lot — I'm like, OK, I'm on the list, you know," Musk said, laughing."Think of John Lennon, who was singing about, 'Hey, can't we all just be nice to each other,' and then he got shot by one of his fans," Musk said. "Like, OK, we'll try to avoid that."

911 call logs for Tesla's HQ reveal reports of 'terroristic' threats and attempted extortion

<ul class="summary-list"><li>The Pentagon wants more leeway from Congress to support US-aligned nations like Taiwan.</li><li>Current limitations mean special operators can only train partners on counterterrorism, counter-narcotics, and border security missions.</li></ul>The Pentagon has been seeking more leeway from Congress so that it can better use its special operators to support friendly, US-aligned nations, including preparing Taiwan for Chinese aggression.Today, special operators are limited in the kind of training and equipment that they can provide to partner forces. If a program isn't fighting terrorism or narcotics or doesn't ensure border security, there's not much American commandos can offer. But under the new proposal, US Special Operations Command (SOCOM) would be able to train and equip foreign partners for resistance and extended foreign internal defense (FID) missions focused on combatting potential future threats.A Pentagon proposal to Congress in April mentioned Taiwan and the Baltic nations in particular, highlighting the need for forces there to be ready to "resist an invasion or occupation by an adversarial power" and protect the nation and its people from "acts of subversion sponsored by a foreign country that pose a significant threat to the existing government,"<a target="_blank" href="https://www.defensenews.com/congress/2024/05/13/pentagon-seeks-to-expand-special-ops-authorities-for-friendly-nations/"> per</a> reporting from Defense News highlighting the <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/jungle-warfare-back-on-the-menu-for-us-special-operations-2024-3">challenges posed by China</a> and Russia.<h2 id="6d62e438-25f9-49c2-8d19-826aa5866c62">New Authorities for Special Operators</h2>In America's last war, <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/special-ops-veterans-frustrated-about-afghanistan-withdrawal-2021-8">special operations forces</a> were the go-to option for military commanders and policymakers. The fighting against insurgents and terrorists in the conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria was ideal for special operations forces. But in a potential future <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/special-operations-want-new-tech-fight-threats-without-being-seen-2024-1">large-scale conflict against China</a> or Russia, special operators are expected to revert to a role of supporting conventional military forces.<div type="image" title="Three US Army Green Berets in battle gear running through a training course outside." height="1672" width="2508" msid="112783285" hostid="261" sizebytes="235562"></div>One of the more valuable capabilities of the US special operations community is its ability to <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/us-green-berets-explain-how-they-train-taiwan-troops-2021-10">train and equip others to fight</a>. The fight can be against an oppressive government or against a rebel group that threatens a legitimate government.For example, during the opening days of the global war on terrorism, US Army Green Berets and CIA paramilitary officers paired with Afghan Northern Alliance fighters to oust the Taliban and al-Qaida terrorists in just a few weeks. Similarly, in Central and South America, Green Berets have trained local militaries to fend off Communist insurgents.In the context of Taiwan, which faces tremendous pressure and threats from neighboring China, an expansion of authorities to <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/us-military-deployment-training-troops-taiwan-report-2021-10">train Taiwan's conventional and spec ops units</a> in additional, irregular missions will increase their deterrence capabilities and could even make a difference in a potential conflict."One of our core mission sets is FID, or Foreign Internal Defense," an Army Special forces operator serving in a National Guard unit told Business Insider."We work with and train partner forces. Expanding our authorities beyond the purview of counterterrorism and counter narcotics will untie our hands and help us better prepare our partners, whether that's in Taiwan or Ukraine," added the Green Beret, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to talk to the media.<div type="image" title="Green Beret with service weapon up firing in outdoor marksmanship training as others look on." height="1182" width="1773" msid="112783282" hostid="261" sizebytes="142666"></div>Army Green Berets are ideally suited for such missions. They receive language and cultural training geared to make them warrior-diplomats. They can act alone or in small teams, helping to train and lead large partner forces into combat.Allowing Green Berets and Marine Raiders, two types of American forces that specialize in training foreign partners, to work with their Taiwanese counterparts in resistance operations could increase Taiwan's chances of defending against a Chinese invasion.If it decides to forcibly unify with the small but defiant island nation, Beijing will likely strike hard and fast. It will probably want to avoid getting entangled in a long fight like Russia has in Ukraine or giving time to the US and others in the West to react. The Chinese military will use everything at its disposal, including special operations forces and intelligence operatives. But a Taiwanese military trained in resistance operations will be harder to defeat."I understand the existing limitations. Resistance and FID skillsets can be used by malicious actors to overthrow legitimate governments and cause all sorts of instability in a region. But, if used as intended, they are a great way to fight a large force," the Green Beret told BI.

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