by Joey Middleton | May 28, 2026 | SOF History, SOF Policy
By David S. Maxwell In two recent articles at the Irregular Warfare Initiative—The Last A-Team: Special Forces Aren’t Special Anymore and A New Vision for Special Forces—Ned Marsh has performed a valuable service for the Special Forces Regiment and the broader...
by Joey Middleton | Jan 23, 2026 | SOF History
By Mr. Gary Wilkins, 1st Special Forces Command In the rigid world of military tradition, true innovators are rare. Even rarer are leaders who respect tradition yet willingly break with convention when the mission demands it. Lieutenant General William Pelham...
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...
