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F3EAD: Find, Fix, Finish, Exploit, Analyse, Disseminate. It is an acronym known and used widely within special operations. It’s kinetic and sequential, and that surface simplicity is its power: it bundles the life-cycle of a target from awareness to actionable intelligence into a flexible workflow. In practice, F3EAD is both a targeting doctrine and a mental model that helps intelligence and operational teams move faster while preserving analytic rigour and legal/ethical guardrails.
F3EAD is simply the latest in a long line of targeting methodology acronyms still doctrinally taught and operationally used today. For example, the OODA (Observe, Orient, Decide, Act) methodology, developed by John Boyd, is famously taught to many military officers and is distinctly incorporated into the F3EAD process. Even in the mysterious world of cybersecurity and ethical hacking, we see a version of F3EAD that simply repackages the process into an acronym using the lingua franca of the cyber world: Reconnaissance, Weaponise, Deliver, Exploit, Install, Command and Control (Cyber Kill Chain). [source, source]
Missions are carried out through the lens of F3EAD. It is the framework by which all intelligence disciplines fuse together to remove individuals from the battlespace.
For generations, the Indian Scouts served as the essential eyes and ears of the United States Army across the vast, unforgiving landscapes of the American West. Decades before radios, satellites, night-vision devices, drones, or GPS changed warfare, these Indigenous warriors perfected the arts of tracking, reconnaissance, infiltration, and survival.
Irregular warfare (IW) seems to be a topic with an equal ability to generate enthusiasm, resistance, and confusion. While the topic is without question of critical importance within the US military, the challenge remains how to define it, how to translate a definition into practical application, and, perhaps most importantly, how to inculcate the force to embrace it as requisite professional knowledge. For my colleagues who would quickly point out the DoD Instruction (DODI) 3000.07 Irregular Warfare published in September 2025 as an answer to my concerns, I can only say, “Oh how I wish it were that simple.” The DODI is latest in a long line of noble attempts to resolve this situation with an official document (e.g., the 2007 Joint Operating Concept, the 2010 Joint Integrating Concept, the 2020 Annex to the National Defense Strategy, and the 2023 Department of Defense Implementation Guidance. to name only a few). It will take more than a strongly worded document insisting that the Department of Defense places a premium on this capability (and therefore you should too) when it simultaneously disbands 33 percent of its Security Force Assistance Brigades in the name of restoring proper warfighting capability.
A Vision for Layered Continental Defense
For the U.S., North American security and homeland defense are top priorities in an era of great power competition. Hypersonic and cruise missile technology eludes the capacity of
legacy detection systems¹ and, along with emerging drone capabilities and swarm tactics, North American continental defense can no longer be assumed. The U.S. president issued
Executive Order 14186 in January 2025 that outlines a vision for layered continental defense due to the proliferation of advanced air and missile threats posing strategic dilemmas to the
U.S.² Known as Golden Dome, the concept encompasses forward base defense, asymmetric warfare, space integration, and collaboration with allies and partners.³ This presents new
challenges and opportunities for Special Operations Forces (SOF) as mission focus rebalances counterterrorism mission sets with active campaigning against peer and near-
peer adversaries like China and Russia.
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