by Joey Middleton | May 31, 2025 | SOF Innovation
By Flavia Camargos Pereira The diverse use cases of Artificial Intelligence (AI) have been turning it into a critical tool for Special Operations Forces (SOF). The flexibility of AI and its wide range of applications provide multiple operational and tactical...
by Joey Middleton | May 13, 2025 | Health, Wellness, and Readiness, SOF Innovation
by Todd South TAMPA, Fla. — All U.S. special operators will soon wear concussion sensors as the services aim to better track brain health. Special Operations Command will begin fielding a blast exposure monitoring system next year. Officials who develop and procure...
by Joey Middleton | May 13, 2025 | SOF Innovation, SOF Operations
By: Brandon J. Weichert SEAL Team Six accidentally crashed a helicopter during the famed 2011 raid. Out of spite for its own humiliation, Pakistan forwarded the wreckage to China—with disastrous results. Fourteen years ago, one of the most daring raids in modern U.S....
by Joey Middleton | Mar 19, 2025 | SOF Innovation
by Jeremiah “Lumpy” Lumbaca In the year 2084, thirty-something years after the Sky Global Algorithmic Network (Sky-GAN) solidified its grip, controlling everything from resource allocation to thought patterns through personalized data streams, the quiet...
by Joey Middleton | Mar 11, 2025 | SOF Innovation
By Richard Byno The humid air of the South China Sea clung to my skin as I peered through my binoculars, scanning the horizon. Our team was tracking a vessel suspected of transporting critical technology to a hostile nation. Suddenly, our target’s signature vanished...
by Joey Middleton | Feb 20, 2025 | SOF Innovation
by Laura Heckmann WASHINGTON, D.C. — When Special Operations Command released a strategy document last year titled the “SOF Renaissance,” it emphasized a framework ‘“tailor made” to face the challenges of a changing strategic landscape. But one area where the command...