by Joey Middleton | Mar 25, 2025 | SOF and Strategic Competition
PRC Maritime Militia leave a harbor in China’s Zhejiang Province, September 2012. By: Doug Livermore, Columnist Photo by: Reuters News Chinese military theory has long valued stratagems focused on undermining the morale of an opposing force. In his penultimate...
by Joey Middleton | Mar 24, 2025 | SOF and Strategic Competition
The world is at a strategic inflection point, and the challenges we face are more complex than ever. From technological advancements to global instability, Army Special Operations Forces (ARSOF) are stepping up to reshape how we compete, deter, and prevail in an era...
by Joey Middleton | Mar 18, 2025 | SOF and Strategic Competition
by Seth G. Jones The Issue Russia is conducting an escalating and violent campaign of sabotage and subversion against European and U.S. targets in Europe led by Russian military intelligence (the GRU), according to a new CSIS database of Russian activity. The number...
by Joey Middleton | Mar 6, 2025 | SOF and Strategic Competition
by Steve Ferenzi, by David Harden Abstract The People’s Republic of China (PRC) presents itself as a gentle panda to obfuscate its global predatory behavior. But hiding inside the PRC’s panda suit is a dragon seeking to prey on the Central Region as a core political...
by Joey Middleton | Mar 6, 2025 | SOF and Strategic Competition
by Lawrence Cline Those of a certain age will remember the issues that the Defense Department and the U.S. Government overall have had with labeling operations short of full-scale conventional war. The plethora of terms used in the past for seemingly similar missions...
