by Joey Middleton | Jan 7, 2026 | SOF History
By Steve Leonard On October 14, 1918, in the waning days of the First World War, 35-year-old Army Lieutenant Colonel William Donovan led a battalion of the famed 165th Infantry Regiment through the Argonne Forest in an assault on Landres-et-St. Georges, France. The...
by Joey Middleton | Dec 17, 2025 | SOF History
By Daniel Tobias Flint For generations, the Indian Scouts served as the essential eyes and ears of the United States Army across the vast, unforgiving landscapes of the American West. Decades before radios, satellites, night-vision devices, drones, or GPS changed...
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 | Nov 9, 2025 | SOF History
By Allen Frazier Most Marines had never seen combat when Peter Ortiz joined the Corps in June 1942. However, he had already survived five years in the French Foreign Legion and fought in Africa, faced the Nazis in France, spent 15 months as a prisoner of war, and...
by Joey Middleton | Jul 22, 2025 | SOF and Strategic Competition, SOF History
By David Maxwell De Oppresso Liber, “To Free the Oppressed,” is more than the official motto of the U.S. Army Special Forces (SF); it encapsulates an all-encompassing philosophy rooted in resistance, the pursuit of liberty, and the strategic practice of...
