France is leaning hard into near space, warning the area is increasingly contested, as evidenced by the Chinese spy ballon ...

It has even pushed the French army to go as far as to create its special defence innovation unit in 2023, known as the Future Combat Command (CCF).

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Special Forces Warrant Officer Institute shapes next generation of warrants for future warfare By Elvia Kelly, U.S. Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School April 1, 2025 ...

The Only Al-Qaida Operative to Infiltrate the Army's Special Forces Ali Mohamed, an al-Qaida spy, made a series of training videos for the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center in the 1980s.