by Joey Middleton | Jul 17, 2025 | SOF and Strategic Competition
By Sandor Fabian With the shift of the US strategic focus toward China as America’s main competitor, both the Department of Defense and academic experts have been examining what a war with China would look like. Unfortunately, but not surprisingly, all these analyses...
by Joey Middleton | Jul 16, 2025 | SOF and Strategic Competition
By Scott R. Gourley TAMPA, Florida — Naval Special Warfare operators are working on a short timeline to ensure the rapid integration of equipment and technologies to optimize their capabilities. Capt. Jared Wyrick, Special Operations Command’s program executive...
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...
