Reply #60: You're missing the point

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The 3rd Infantry Division conducts an assault or offensive. SOF conducts "operations", and they "hunt" for the little hideaways where the enemy leadership plans larger attacks. It's just the language of the community. If you were to tell anyone in the military to have SEAL Team 4 "conduct an offensive" on the enemy, they'd look at you sideways, because that's not what they do. What they do (I'm guessing maybe one more stab at explaining it to you might catch your eye) is while larger units like the 101st or a MAGTF conduct offensive operations, the SOF teams seek out the leadership nodes and/or other weak points in the enemy infrastructure and they take those weak points out, making it harder for them to adequately lead/plan/respond to the larger allied offensive.

We've been doing these types of operations since WWII, we did them against Hitler in Europe.