by Joey Middleton | Jul 12, 2025 | SOF and Strategic Competition
By Robert Schafer, Dr. Martijn Kitzen, Dr. Peter Layton, Dr. Will Reno, Dr. Peter Schrijver, Dr. Heather Venable, Reyes Cole, Amy Frumin, Vibeke Gootzen, Walker Mills, LTC Paul Amis U.S. Irregular Approach to Joint Campaigning Chapter 1: Introduction Background The...
by Joey Middleton | Jul 8, 2025 | SOF and Strategic Competition, SOF Innovation
In this video, we ask: What are Rare Earth Elements—and why do they matter to SOF? Rare Earth Elements (REEs) are critical to the technologies that give the U.S. military its edge, from missile guidance systems to night vision and secure communications. They also...
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 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...
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...
