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 | Nov 14, 2025 | SOF Innovation
By Zita Ballinger Fletcher Wielding drones in combat missions and being able to repair them on the spot could soon become a new standard among the skills fielded by the operators of U.S. Special Operations Command, per a solicitation released Wednesday. SOCOM wants a...
by Joey Middleton | Oct 29, 2025 | SOF Innovation
By Mark Pomerleau WASHINGTON — Special Operations Command Pacific is running its first ever artificial intelligence boot camp this week, in an effort to familiarize officials with how it can be useful everyday, according to the organization’s commander. “The reasons...
by Joey Middleton | Sep 12, 2025 | SOF Innovation
Introduction It is my distinct privilege to present the Special Operations Research Topics 2026 (SORT) booklet . This year’s SORT team, under the leadership of Doug Jordan, Associate Professor of Practice in the Joint Special Operations University’s (JSOU) Department...
by Joey Middleton | Aug 27, 2025 | SOF Innovation
By Tyler Fleming Abstract The practice of irregular warfare has a checkered history when it comes to long-term outcomes. It is extremely difficult to forecast how fighting over the will and support of a population will lead to unintended consequences in the years and...
by Joey Middleton | Aug 11, 2025 | Health, Wellness, and Readiness, SOF Innovation
By Carley Welch WASHINGTON — By the end of the year some American special operations forces (SOF) will begin fielding new wearable tech designed to keep a real-time eye on their vitals as well as integrate with systems designed to warn command posts should the...
