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For three years, I’ve watched with excitement as Dr. Kerry Chavez and Dr. Rick “Newt” Newton built and expanded IWI’s Air and Space Power Initiative into the premier forum driving the discussion of the role for air and space power in irregular warfare. It is a great honor to take on leadership of this program moving forward, and I eagerly look forward to both their and your continued contributions to this vital area of international security. Five years after the fall of Kabul, faced with the continuing rise of peer threats and ongoing conflicts in Ukraine and Iran, the debate surrounding the proper role for air and space power across the spectrum of conflict remains at a critical inflection point.
In two recent articles at the Irregular Warfare Initiative—The Last A-Team: Special Forces Aren’t Special Anymore and A New Vision for Special Forces—Ned Marsh has performed a valuable service for the Special Forces Regiment and the broader national security community. He has forced a serious debate about whether U.S. Army Special Forces remains organized trained, equipped, educated, and optimized, for the realities of strategic competition and contested warfare in the Asia-Indo-Pacific, Europe, Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East. His critique is sharp because it addresses real problems. He correctly notes that the contemporary battlefield is saturated with surveillance, drones, biometrics, cyber collection, and electronic warfare. The operational environment has changed faster than many military institutions have adapted. Those realities cannot be dismissed.
When Admiral Frank Bradley told SOF Week 2026 that the force needs “PhDs who can win a bar fight,” he was reaching back to William Donovan’s eighty-year-old framing of the OSS operator. He was right to. But the dichotomy embedded in the joke is false—and the institutional habit of treating it as real is the deepest reason the conventional pipeline keeps failing to produce what Bradley is asking for.
Woven through contemporary debate are threads of different schools of thought that cross but lack a central thread which closes the seam. One school of thought sees a return of great power competition and argues for an emphasis on lethality and warfighting competency. Another sees a change in the character of conflict and competition where adversaries pursue their ends in the space between peace and war. Above all, and critical to stitching multiple paradigms together, is the one which is eternal in all war and immutable—the human domain. War is always a political act done by humans.
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