by Joey Middleton | May 28, 2025 | SOF and Strategic Competition
By Doug Livermore A rebuttal to J.R. Seeger’s “A New Office of Strategic Services?” published by FPRI in May 2025. A recent piece in the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) penned by a retired Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer argues against proposals to...
by Joey Middleton | May 6, 2025 | SOF and Strategic Competition
By Dean Hoffman and Joe Mariani The National Defense Industrial Association’s annual Special Operations Symposium is often a window into the future of Special Operations Forces, so it was perhaps unusual that the 35th symposium on Feb. 20 began with a bit of a history...
by Joey Middleton | May 6, 2025 | SOF and Strategic Competition
By Matthew Olay, DOD News The role of special operations forces in global conflicts has steadily increased amid what the U.S. Special Operations Command’s top leader called the most complex security environment the United States has faced in decades. ...
by Joey Middleton | May 2, 2025 | SOF and Strategic Competition
by Matthew Slusher Executive Summary The Russia-Ukraine war has emerged as a watershed moment in modern military history, fundamentally reshaping our understanding of contemporary warfare. This white paper analyzes five transformative domains that have defined this...
by Joey Middleton | Mar 25, 2025 | Current Events, SOF and Strategic Competition
The fragile, imperfect ceasefire in Lebanon has held. But it could become more tenuous after a recent change to a critical element in its success: high-level, on-the-ground U.S. military coordination and leadership. For three months, Major General Jasper Jeffers...
by Joey Middleton | Mar 25, 2025 | SOF and Strategic Competition
In the 1960s, some analysts and scholars were convinced that the Soviet Union was on a trajectory to overtake the U.S. in industrial production and material satisfaction. In the 1980s, Japan’s efficient manufacturing prowess and high-profile purchases of U.S. real...
