John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School

John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School (USAJFKSWCS) trains United States Army personnel for the United States Army Special Operations Command (USASOC) and Army Special Operation Forces (ARSOF). According to its mission statement, its purpose is to train Special Forces through development and evaluation of special operations concepts, doctrines and training. It is based at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

The school began in 1951 as the psychological warfare division of the Army General School at Fort Riley, Kansas. The Army's Psychological Warfare Center was created at Fort Bragg in May 1952 and the following month the school was co-located as the Psychological Warfare School. [cite web
url=http://www.bragg.army.mil/specialforces/History.htm
title=Special Forces - History
publisher=Website of Fort Bragg] The center was proposed by the Army's then Psychological Warfare Chief, Robert A. McClure, to provide doctrinal support and training for both psychological and conventional warfare. [cite web
url=http://stinet.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA086801
title=Psychological and Unconventional Warfare, 1941-1952: Origins of a Special Warfare Capability for the United States Army
author=Paddock, Alfred H., Jr
date=November 1979]

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External links

* [http://www.soc.mil/swcs/swcs_default.htm USAJFKSWCS at www.soc.mil]
* [http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/agency/army/jfksws.htm USAJFKSWCS at GlobalSecurity.org]