by Joey Middleton | Jan 23, 2025 | SOF and Strategic Competition
by Daniel Ross Introduction The post-Global War on Terror (GWOT) United States (US) Army Special Forces (SF) Regiment faces a unique opportunity to rejuvenate its identity as it seeks to find balance with the overarching US Army’s evolving concentration on irregular...
by Joey Middleton | Jan 22, 2025 | SOF and Strategic Competition
by Doug Livermore President Trump’s landmark executive order designating major drug cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) marks a watershed moment in America’s approach to national security and strategic competition against China. This reclassification...
by Joey Middleton | Jan 21, 2025 | SOF and Strategic Competition
The Need for a Taxonomy of Hybrid Warfare: Population-Centric vs. Enemy-Centric Approaches Dr. Tarik Solmaz Since Russia’s ambiguous intervention in Ukraine in 2014, the concept of hybrid warfare has gained attention in Western academic, defense policy, military...
by Joey Middleton | Jan 19, 2025 | SOF and Strategic Competition
The American military has an asymmetrical advantage over any possible adversary with its special operations community, and the processes are in place to keep that advantage going well into the future, said Chris Maier, the assistant secretary of defense for special...
by Joey Middleton | Jan 16, 2025 | SOF and Strategic Competition
by Samit D’Cunha Legal Adviser, ICRC Tristan Ferraro Senior Legal Adviser, ICRC Tilman Rodenhäuser Thematic Legal Adviser, ICRC In an era of rising geopolitical tensions, terms like ‘hybrid threats,’ ‘grey zones,’ and ‘proxy warfare’ are frequently used to describe...
by Joey Middleton | Jan 15, 2025 | SOF and Strategic Competition
By Chris Panella US special operators are shifting away from counterterrorism toward peer-adversary conflict. There are five areas the US special operations community can focus on to best do that, new research says. These areas harken back to the strengths of special...
