Role of National Guard Special Forces in the New Enhanced Special Forces Group

The scope of this thesis is to define an appropriate alignment and force integration of National Guard Special Forces in the transformation of Special Forces into the new Enhanced Special Forces Group. The current force alignment is relevant to historical linkage and has not shifted with the demographic and force shifts of the past twenty years. The current alignment and mission scope of National Guard Special Forces is rooted in the Cold War paradigm and needs to be adjusted to fit the need of a Global Scout.