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...
by Joey Middleton | May 6, 2025 | SOF and Strategic Competition
By Matthew Olay, DOD News The role of special operations forces in global conflicts has steadily increased amid what the U.S. Special Operations Command’s top leader called the most complex security environment the United States has faced in decades. ...
by Joey Middleton | May 2, 2025 | SOF and Strategic Competition
by Matthew Slusher Executive Summary The Russia-Ukraine war has emerged as a watershed moment in modern military history, fundamentally reshaping our understanding of contemporary warfare. This white paper analyzes five transformative domains that have defined this...
