by Joey Middleton | Jul 29, 2025 | SOF Operations
Training for Victory: U.S. Special Forces Advisory Operations from El Salvador to Afghanistan. By Frank Sobchak. Annapolis: U.S. Naval Institute Press, 2024. ISBN: 978168247133. Maps. Photographs. Glossary. Notes. Sources cited. Index. Pp. 1-352. $39.95. The closeout...
by Joey Middleton | Jul 24, 2025 | SOF Operations, SOF Policy
By Alexandra Chinchilla Introduction: Rethinking U.S. Military Advising After the failure to build a sustainable Afghan military that could survive without U.S. presence, many scholars and practitioners now argue that U.S. efforts to build foreign militaries are...
by Joey Middleton | Jul 22, 2025 | SOF and Strategic Competition, SOF History
By David Maxwell De Oppresso Liber, “To Free the Oppressed,” is more than the official motto of the U.S. Army Special Forces (SF); it encapsulates an all-encompassing philosophy rooted in resistance, the pursuit of liberty, and the strategic practice of...
by Joey Middleton | Jul 22, 2025 | SOF Innovation, SOF Operations
By David Maxwell The U.S. Army is grappling with the emergence of agentic warfare—the convergence of artificial intelligence (AI), autonomous systems, and algorithmically driven operations that promises to transform the conduct of war. But as the strategic community...
by Joey Middleton | Jul 22, 2025 | SOF Innovation, SOF Operations
By Benjamin Jensen, Dan Tadross, and Matthew Strohmeyer It is 02:35:01Z, March 22, 2026, inside a dimly lit Forward U.S. Joint Operations Center. Screens pulse in gentle waves each a second long, reflecting streams of updated data. Unseen beneath layers of code, an...
