by Joey Middleton | May 12, 2026 | SOF and Strategic Competition
By Andrew Rolander In 2013, Army Chief of Staff General Raymond Odierno, Marine Corps Commandant General James Amos, and commander of US Special Operations Command Admiral William McRaven cosigned a document that should have grabbed the attention of the entire...
by Joey Middleton | May 12, 2026 | SOF and Strategic Competition
By Ron MacCammon Editor’s Note: this article is being republished with the permission of the Irregular Warfare Initiative as part of a republishing arrangement between IWI and SWJ. The original article was published on April 9, 2026 and is available here. For more...
by Joey Middleton | May 12, 2026 | SOF and Strategic Competition
By Christiane Thompson, Janetta Harris, Bernard Harris Jr., Raymond Powell, and Michael Hay Check out this article from JSOU Press! The report uses the Battle of the Little Bighorn on June 25, 1876, as a case study to examine enduring principles of irregular warfare...
by Joey Middleton | Apr 22, 2026 | SOF and Strategic Competition
By Jerae Perez Introduction Western military thought often assumes that faster sensors and better data lead to faster action. In gray-zone competition, however, ambiguity over escalation thresholds creates a gap between recognition and authorization, allowing...
by Joey Middleton | Apr 22, 2026 | SOF and Strategic Competition
By Erika Lafrennie Introduction SOF does not administer governance. It operates where governance determines what is possible. That distinction matters. Operators encounter this terrain long before doctrine has language to describe it. In modern irregular...
by Joey Middleton | Apr 13, 2026 | SOF and Strategic Competition, SOF Operations
By Dr. Joseph Long “Every intervention begins as a story of liberation. Without adaptation, it ends as a story of occupation.” Why do militarily superior forces consistently win the fight—but lose the peace? This is not a new question. It is the defining paradox of...
