by Joey Middleton | Oct 29, 2026 | SOF and Strategic Competition
By Dr. John Ringquist The People’s Republic of China’s declaration of its near-Arctic state status in 2014 signaled the PRC’s intentions to become an economic and security presence in the region. Scientific research provides a means by which the PRC pursues the...
by Joey Middleton | Oct 29, 2026 | SOF and Strategic Competition
By Lumpy Lumbaca Physicists can’t agree on what time is. In a December 2025 article for BBC Science Focus, theoretical physicist Jim Al-Khalili described three definitions of time that do not work together. In equations that describe motion and decay, time is...
by Joey Middleton | Oct 13, 2026 | SOF and Strategic Competition
By Toby Fenton Introduction Cognitive warfare is receiving increasing attention in national security and defense communities, including much discussion within the pages of the Small Wars Journal. In contribution to these discussions, this essay identifies an overlap...
by Joey Middleton | Oct 13, 2026 | SOF and Strategic Competition
By Lee Ferran After underestimating Ukraine’s forces, the Defense Intelligence Agency adopted a new analytical framework to try and quantify the unquantifiable. WASHINGTON — The Defense Intelligence Agency revealed today the analytical framework it’s using to...
by Joey Middleton | Oct 13, 2026 | SOF and Strategic Competition
By Rania Kisar On September 29, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps did something unusual. It published a lengthy open letter addressed not to Washington but to “the honorable people of the United States,” and particularly to American scholars, students and...
by Joey Middleton | Oct 6, 2026 | SOF and Strategic Competition
In August 2021, Afghan National Security Forces collapsed in a mere eleven days following the withdrawal of the United States military. Two decades of training and advising ended without resistance before a materially inferior Taliban force reclaimed power amid an...
