Employment of humans in hostile, denied, and politically sensitive environments will be required. Although other entities such as large transnational corporations, economic alliances, and nongovernmental organizations will become more significant players in the global community, the nation-state will remain an important actor. This paper is divided into three major sections and two appendices. The thesis, assumptions, and core capability serve as the common thread tying the tasks, force qualities, and underlying technologies to SORE mission needs and core competencies in 2025. These enabling tasks are recruitment, assessment, training, observation, communication, decision, countermeasures, and sustainment.
Movement is also an important enabling task.
Two appendices support the body of this paper. Appendix A identifies and discusses the force qualities and attributes needed in the recommended systems, as well as the underlying technologies required to create those systems. Appendix B provides a brief definition of those underlying technologies.