by Joey Middleton | Dec 15, 2025 | SOF and Strategic Competition, SOF Innovation
By Lieutenant Colonel Nathan Stackhouse JSOU Report 25-24 November 17, 2025 Joint Special Operations University provides relevant joint special operations-peculiar education programs that strengthen the SOF enterprise’s impact on the joint force and the Nation. To...
by Joey Middleton | Dec 9, 2025 | SOF and Strategic Competition, SOF History, SOF Innovation
By Morgan Plummer Today, and not at some distant point in the future, AI algorithms can shape public perception, disrupt markets, and steer missiles. Given the depth and breadth of its capabilities, it’s increasingly clear that the real frontier of artificial...
by Joey Middleton | Dec 9, 2025 | SOF and Strategic Competition, SOF History
By Alex Bogaski Why Study the Civil War? The American Civil War provides a wealth of case studies useful to contemporary Special Operations Forces (SOF). There is perhaps no other topic in American history with more scholarship devoted to it; primary source documents...
by Joey Middleton | Dec 8, 2025 | SOF and Strategic Competition, SOF Innovation
By AJ Rutherford, PhD Introduction Military information support operations (MISO), historically rooted in the U.S. military’s psychological operations (PSYOP) doctrine, remain a pivotal strategic function within Special Operations Forces (SOF). In the context of...
by Joey Middleton | Dec 6, 2025 | SOF and Strategic Competition
By David Maxwell Setting the Geo-Strategic Frame The world is sliding into a long political war. It moves without ceremony across the seas and archipelagos of the Asia-Indo-Pacific. Its front lines run through villages, ports, digital networks, and the minds of...
by Joey Middleton | Dec 6, 2025 | SOF and Strategic Competition
By Andrew Loftesnes Robert Kremzner As Russia continues a long-running campaign of irregular warfare against the United States and its European allies, it has increasingly turned to criminal elements to carry out kinetic sabotage operations and attacks on people....