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The GI Joe/Cobra Concept Art & Filecard Project
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04-06-2011, 08:55 PM
zuludelta
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Also, here's an update of the SSI (Shoulder Sleeve Insignia) I designed for the team (obviously, the Airborne shoulder tab is only authorized for wear by the Army members of the unit):
I'm re-writing my take on the Joe team (which I initially envisioned as an independent intelligence-gathering agency akin to the CIA) to a special operations-capable peace-enforcement unit.
According to Chapter III of the Center for Army Lessons Learned handout 93-8 (Operations Other Than War), peace enforcement is "the use of armed force to separate combatants and to create a cease-fire that does not exist. Force may also be used to create other peaceful ends such as safehavens for victims of the hostilities." In addition, it states that "a situation for which peace enforcement operations are required, armed conflict and not peace describes the situation. Also, one or more of the belligerents usually prefers it that way. This means that, unlike peacekeepers, peace enforcers are not welcomed by one of the belligerents. Rather, the peace enforcers are active fighters who must force a ceasefire that is opposed by one or both combatants; in the process, they lose their neutrality."
In a nutshell, my vision of GIJOE is that it's a special operations-capable joint-service unit that is specifically tasked with using lethal force (or the threat of lethal force) to coerce belligerents in conflicts of pertinent interest to the national security of the US and its allies to agree to the conditions of a ceasefire. Instead of using the traditional peace enforcement method of employing overwhelming numbers of regular troops to control any and all belligerents, GIJOE uses a more efficient approach of clandestinely and selectively targeting key elements of the belligerent organizations for capture or neutralization (instead of taking on the whole belligerent organization in open warfare), thus reducing the risk of collateral damage and theoretically contributing to a post-conflict environment that is more conducive to settlement and negotiation between belligerents.
This distinctive purpose would set apart GIJOE from USSOCOM units, in that GIJOE operators will have to be trained much more extensively in
CMO
and
MOOTW
(think of them as "Civil Affairs with teeth" or as "Delta Force with heart"
).
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