[Popman]

Copenhaver wrote a paper in 2014 arguing that integrating minorities into Special Operations Forces would help address national security threats because those minorities would have specific knowledge of culture in a given deployment area.

OK...I can see where a hispanic Special Forces soldier could be helpful in a country where knowing the Spanish language and culture would be helpful...

I'm not sure where blacks fit into this scenario, Africains look at black Americans as Americans...

How many blacks know the cultural nuances of African countries?

[cll]

OK...I can see where a hispanic Special Forces soldier could be helpful in a country where knowing the Spanish language and culture would be helpful..."

Such was the case of the 7th SFG, which was loaded with Puerto Ricans and other Hispanics before the GWOT.

[Pontiac]

Copenhaver wrote a paper in 2014 arguing that integrating minorities into Special Operations Forces would help address national security threats because those minorities would have specific knowledge of culture in a given deployment area.

I guess they are looking forward to the day when Special Forces will have to invade US InterCitys. That is the only place that I can see where “minorities would have specific knowledge of culture in a given deployment area.”