...Assistant Secretary of Defense for special operations, low intensity conflict. Mr. Billingslea is acting as the Assistant Secretary of defense for special operations and low intensity conflict. At the outset I will state that without objection, Mr. Billingslea, your entire statement will be placed...

...counternarcotics policy above, the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Counternarcotics, reporting through the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict, shall develop and implement the Department's connternarcotics policy. This policy provides detailed...

...Task Force-6 (JTF-6), headquartered in El Paso, Texas. Within the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict (ASD(SO/LIC)) has the overall lead for the Department's counterdrug activities, with assistance from...

...Affairs (ASD(ISA)). In OEF, oversight of detainee operations policy was transferred from ASD(ISA) to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict (ASD(SOILIC)) in a memorandum dated 17 January 2002, SUBJECT: Responsibility for Detainees in Association...

...Affairs (ASD(ISA)). In OEF, oversight of detainee operations policy was transferred from ASD(ISA) to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict (ASD(SO/LIC)) in a memorandum dated 17 January 2002, SUBJECT: Responsibility for Detainees in Association...

...quarterly basis a statement of all the JCETs that will occur worldwide. There is an office, the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low Intensity Contact, who directly supervises the special forces. That office will get those. Then in consultation...

...frequently, both formally and informally, with the Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Program and the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special...Operations and Low Intensity Conflict (OASD/SOLIC), which has policy oversight for the development and employment of non-lethal weapons. The DOD policy...

...large amounts of federal dollars. 22. Notably, by eliminating a policy role in this area for the office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict, which is currently responsible for the PSYOP portfolio. 23. A final point: there is also an argument...

...military objectives in the Global War on Terrorism. A December 2002 report conducted by the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict15 found that efforts should be made to expand the size of special operations forces and institute...

...worries facing Schwarzkopf and his subordinates when planning for the war. In Washington, however, the assistant secretary of defense for special operations and low intensity conflict (SO/LIC) recognized that this would become a necessary mission. At the same time, the G5 of the 352nd...