LTG (r) Kenneth E. Tovo was commissioned from the U.S. Military Academy into the Infantry in 1983. After serving his initial tour with the 82nd Airborne Division, Tovo completed the Special Forces Qualification Course and transferred to Special Forces. He served as a Special Forces detachment, company, battalion, and group commander in the 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne).

Tovo’s additional assignments included serving as a plans officer with 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta and Joint Headquarters Center (NATO); aide de-camp to the commander, Stabilization Force, Bosnia; chief of staff, U.S. Army Special Operations Command (USASOC); deputy commanding general, Special Operations Command Europe (SOCEUR); deputy commanding general, 1st Armored Division/U.S. Division Center, Iraq; commanding general, Special Operations Command Central (SOCCENT); and commanding general, Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan and NATO Training Mission-Afghanistan (CSTC-A/NTM-A). Most recently, Tovo served as the military deputy commander of U.S. Southern Command in Miami, Fla.

Tovo’s operational assignments include the first Gulf War, refugee relief operations in Northern Iraq, noncombatant evacuation operations in Sierra Leone, peacekeeping operations in Bosnia on two occasions, five tours in Iraq, and one tour in Afghanistan.

As mentioned in the podcast:

• Green Beret Foundation - https://greenberetfoundation.org/

• First Flight Venture Center- https://www.ffvcnc.org/

Graham Allison: - Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap?-https://amzn.to/3I2U0TB

Peter Zienhan Books:-

• The Absent Super Power - https://amzn.to/3XdW4w1

• Disunited Nations: The Scramble for Power in an Ungoverned World - https://amzn.to/3YfcupC

• The Accidental Superpower: The Next Generation of American Preeminence and the Coming Global Disorder - https://amzn.to/3Yr7cXt

• The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization - https://amzn.to/3RJCZRp

Christian Brose - The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare - https://amzn.to/3HvnbwY

P.W.Singer and August Cole - Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War - https://amzn.to/3HGFtvr

Charles E. Heller - America's First Battles - https://amzn.to/3HBL1Hm


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