Research for International Cooperation

The Deputy Commander, Special Operations Command (SOCOM) invited the author to observe the first international Special Forces conference ever held, at the Tamp Conference Center in June 2005. This report contains those observations. The main observation was that, given the global war on terror, the need is for country special forces to share information and operations, rather than operate in secrecy like Special Forces have done in the past. The report includes the specific comments of the Commander of Pakistan's Special Services Group, Major General Faisal Alawi, on Pakistan operations against terrorists in Waziristan.