by Joey Middleton | Jan 12, 2026 | SOF and Strategic Competition
By Frzand Sherko Introduction: Redefining Victory When Iranian forces retook Khorramshahr in May 1982, the Iran–Iraq War could have ended. Iraq signaled readiness for a ceasefire, Iran had reversed the invasion, and the strategic balance no longer justified...
by Joey Middleton | Jan 12, 2026 | SOF and Strategic Competition, SOF Congress
By David Maxwell Introduction The raid that removed Nicolás Maduro and the sudden designation of Marco Rubio as the de facto steward of Venezuela did more than end a regime. It exposed a truth Washington prefers to avoid. Modern statecraft now lives in the...
by Joey Middleton | Jan 12, 2026 | SOF and Strategic Competition, Uncategorized
By Dino Garner Introduction In the situation rooms of Washington and the chancelleries of Europe, the future of warfare is often visualized as a contest of high-velocity hardware: the silent glide of a hypersonic vehicle, the swarm logic of autonomous drones, or the...
by Joey Middleton | Jan 5, 2026 | SOF and Strategic Competition, SOF Operations, Uncategorized
By Josh Luberisse Introduction At 0201 local time this morning, helicopters from the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment—the Night Stalkers—crossed into Venezuelan airspace carrying Delta Force operators toward a target in Caracas. Less than three hours later,...
by Joey Middleton | Dec 23, 2025 | SOF and Strategic Competition, SOF Operations
By Gabriel Fanelli 1.0 Introduction F3EAD: Find, Fix, Finish, Exploit, Analyse, Disseminate. It is an acronym known and used widely within special operations. It’s kinetic and sequential, and that surface simplicity is its power: it bundles the life-cycle of a target...
by Joey Middleton | Dec 17, 2025 | SOF and Strategic Competition, Uncategorized
By Mark Grdovic “The first, the supreme, the most far-reaching act of judgment that the statesman and the commander have to make is to establish…the kind of war on which they are embarking; neither mistaking it for, nor trying to make it into something that is alien...
