by Joey Middleton | Nov 21, 2025 | SOF and Strategic Competition
By David Maxwell The Kennedy Standard In 1962 at West Point, John F. Kennedy looked at a corps of future officers and told them their wars would not look like their fathers’ wars. He spoke of infiltration instead of invasion, subversion instead of elections,...
by Joey Middleton | Nov 18, 2025 | SOF and Strategic Competition
By Matt Armstrong The estimable Frank Hoffman penned1 something that is part literature review of the term “cognitive warfare” and part defense of the term. I trust Frank’s assessments and generally defer to his experience and analytical rigor. In “Assessing Cognitive...
by Joey Middleton | Nov 18, 2025 | SOF and Strategic Competition
By Frank Hoffman Despite its introduction over a decade ago by the People’s Liberation Army, there is no common understanding of Cognitive Warfare. Nor is there an agreement on the existence of a human or cognitive domain. These concepts compete in a crowded and...
by Joey Middleton | Nov 18, 2025 | SOF and Strategic Competition, SOF Congress
By David Maxwell Introduced by Representative Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) and Delegate James Moylan (R-GU), and supported in the Senate by Senators Chris Coons (D-DE) and David McCormick (R-PA), the DISRUPT Act (full text) was attached to the Fiscal Year 2026 National...
by Joey Middleton | Nov 14, 2025 | SOF and Strategic Competition
By Leland Lazarus Editor’s Note: this article is being republished with the permission of the Irregular Warfare Initiative as part of a republishing arrangement between IWI and SWJ. The original article was published on July 16, 2025 and is available here. ...
by Joey Middleton | Oct 29, 2025 | SOF and Strategic Competition, SOF Operations, SOF Policy
By Robert C. Jones If Special Forces has an “identity crisis,” it is because we misunderstood and mislabeled the problems we were sent to resolve, and applied solutions rooted in how the problems were labeled and defined, rather than for what they were. The world had...
