by Joey Middleton | Jun 18, 2025 | SOF and Strategic Competition
The Environment Malign actors deploy cyberattacks, economic coercion, disinformation, and illicit gray zone tactics to destabilize the modern Indo-Pacific region. Competition in the region is currently not characterized by kinetic engagements—it is a protracted,...
by Joey Middleton | Jun 9, 2025 | SOF and Strategic Competition
By Jill Gentry “Where do we start?” I checked in as the intelligence officer for a US Navy special warfare unit in March 2020. My arrival coincided with the start of the command’s scheduled counter-ISIL deployment to Iraq under OPERATION INHERENT RESOLVE, the latest...
by Joey Middleton | Jun 6, 2025 | SOF and Strategic Competition, Uncategorized
By Kyle Ramsay Introduction American power is in crisis, and with it, America’s role in the global system. More than thirty years after the end of the Cold War and nearly twenty-four after 9/11, is America still leader of the free world; the self-appointed...
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...
