by Joey Middleton | Jul 7, 2025 | SOF and Strategic Competition
By Thomas Searle A year and a half ago, at the beginning of 2024, a short article appeared under the provocative title “The Future of Irregular Warfare: The United States is Winning, Now What?”. For decades, the prevailing narrative was consistent U.S. failure in...
by Joey Middleton | Jul 7, 2025 | SOF Policy
By Honorable James R. Locher III Former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict The Fourth Age of SOF: The Use and Utility of Special Operations Forces in a New Age is a sweeping monograph that chronicles the history of...
by Joey Middleton | Jul 7, 2025 | Health, Wellness, and Readiness
Special Operations Forces Moral Injury Fact Sheet SOF Moral Injury—The What Current SOF operators are not the first generation to face the invisible wounds of war. However, many SOF warriors are unfamiliar with the term or concept of moral injury (MI). “When I first...
by Joey Middleton | Jul 7, 2025 | SOF and Strategic Competition, SOF Operations
U.S. and coalition forces are challenged by increasingly capable adversaries across all domains, the electromagnetic spectrum, and the information environment. The winners of future warfare will be those who imagine and act asymmetrically, innovate and implement the...
by Joey Middleton | Jul 1, 2025 | SOF and Strategic Competition
By Lt. Col. Shawn Bourdon and Maj. Brian Hamel of the Special Warfare Journal How do special operations forces (SOF) plan operations against threats delineated in the National Security Strategy that transcend the geographic and legal boundaries imposed by the...
