by Joey Middleton | Dec 6, 2025 | SOF and Strategic Competition, SOF Innovation
By Scott Douglas AI is an emerging technology that will impact every sector and field across the globe. Militaries have a particularly hard challenge ahead, as mistakes in AI implementation cost lives. More importantly, there will be dramatic implications for...
by Joey Middleton | Dec 1, 2025 | SOF and Strategic Competition
By Ben Soltisz “Evolution is driven by chance and necessity.” This was the mantra of Nobel Prize winner Jacques Monod. While Monod was primarily known for his work as a French biologist and philosopher, he also served as Chief of Staff for Operations for the French...
by Joey Middleton | Dec 1, 2025 | SOF and Strategic Competition
By Don Rassler, Kristina Hummel, Brian Dodwell, Ned Curry In less than a year, the United States will mark 25 years since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. The terrorism landscape today is markedly different than it was that morning, and even the elements...
by Joey Middleton | Nov 21, 2025 | SOF and Strategic Competition
By David Maxwell The Kennedy Standard In 1962 at West Point, John F. Kennedy looked at a corps of future officers and told them their wars would not look like their fathers’ wars. He spoke of infiltration instead of invasion, subversion instead of elections,...
by Joey Middleton | Nov 18, 2025 | SOF and Strategic Competition
By Matt Armstrong The estimable Frank Hoffman penned1 something that is part literature review of the term “cognitive warfare” and part defense of the term. I trust Frank’s assessments and generally defer to his experience and analytical rigor. In “Assessing Cognitive...
by Joey Middleton | Nov 18, 2025 | SOF and Strategic Competition
By Frank Hoffman Despite its introduction over a decade ago by the People’s Liberation Army, there is no common understanding of Cognitive Warfare. Nor is there an agreement on the existence of a human or cognitive domain. These concepts compete in a crowded and...
