by Joey Middleton | Jul 1, 2025 | SOF Policy
FM 3-05 Army Special Operations (JUN25) FM 3-05 provides U.S. Army planners and forces with the principles, tactics, and procedures to execute Army special operations and related activities. Foreword Since the days of the Revolutionary War, Army Special Operations...
by Joey Middleton | Jun 27, 2025 | SOF and Strategic Competition
By Philip Wasielewski Two recent essays published by the Center for the Study of Intelligence and Nontraditional Warfare at the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) rekindle interest in a perennial debate about whether covert action, particularly paramilitary...
by Joey Middleton | Jun 26, 2025 | SOF and Strategic Competition
By Dr. Ju Hyung Kim. As the threat of simultaneous crises in East Asia looms larger—whether in the Taiwan Strait, the Korean Peninsula, or both—the likelihood that U.S. special operations forces (SOF) will be called upon to operate across national boundaries in...
by Joey Middleton | Jun 20, 2025 | SOF History
By Lt. Col. Zachary Griffiths FORT BRAGG, North Carolina – At 4:30 a.m. on Aug. 16, 1945, six men flew into the unknown. By sundown, they’d been beaten, stripped, and installed in the nicest hotel in Mukden. None of them knew this was in front of them just seven...
by Joey Middleton | Jun 20, 2025 | Health, Wellness, and Readiness
By Patty Nieberg A day of training with the Carl Gustaf rifle, according to one soldier with significant experience with it, can be like a full-contact football practice. “I would equate it to getting a concussion in football, where you have headaches, nausea,”...
