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Banner illustration for The Art of Collaborative Counseling (Illustration by Special Warfare Journal staff.)The Art of Collaborative Counseling

For years, Soldiers have experienced counseling sessions, desk side conversations, and heart-to-heart discussions with mentors, raters, and commanders that provided them with the opportunity to discuss their goals and development. Often, they listen to how the leader thought they could improve themselves within the confines of the counselor’s vision or end state. Frequently, the subject leaves understanding the leader’s desires, but are no closer to understanding how to achieve the goals of the rater, the organization. They lack specific, tangible information on how to improve. In the Army, it feels that the science of counseling is more prescriptive, but the counseling art form is nebulous. 
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Nov. 24, 2025

Getting Small: Institutionalizing Split-Team Operations for Large Scale Combat Operations

Modern battlefields are characterized by intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR)-saturated and electronic warfare (EW)-contested environments. Large formations are vulnerable to drone swarms, rapid counter-battery fire, and automated targeting, making agility, dispersion, deception, and timely action critical for survival. Special Forces (SF) employ these necessary characteristics of modern warfare through split-team operations – dividing into small, independent elements, even down to singleton operators – to achieve stealth, autonomy, seamless integration with joint fire support, and increased operational coverage.

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