by Joey Middleton | Nov 28, 2025 | SOCOM, SOF Operations
By Don Rassler Admiral Frank M. Bradley has been the Commander of U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) since October 2025. Originally from Eldorado, Texas, ADM Bradley is a 1991 graduate of the United States Naval Academy. He has commanded at all levels of...
by Joey Middleton | Nov 28, 2025 | SOF Operations
By Brig. Gen. Matthew J. Hardman, U.S. Army Lt. Col. Ian M. McConnell, U.S. Army In large-scale combat operations, communication may be the most precious opportunity that we have. —Brig. Gen. Joe Wortham After a protracted war period from 2001 to 2021, the U.S. Army...
by Joey Middleton | Oct 29, 2025 | SOF and Strategic Competition, SOF Operations, SOF Policy
By Robert C. Jones If Special Forces has an “identity crisis,” it is because we misunderstood and mislabeled the problems we were sent to resolve, and applied solutions rooted in how the problems were labeled and defined, rather than for what they were. The world had...
by Joey Middleton | Oct 2, 2025 | SOF and Strategic Competition, SOF Operations
Executive Summary: DoD Instruction 3000.07 – Irregular Warfare (IW) OverviewThe Department of Defense (DoD) has reissued its Irregular Warfare directive as a formal Instruction (DoDI 3000.07), effective September 29, 2025. This new framework elevates Irregular Warfare...
by Joey Middleton | Sep 24, 2025 | SOF Operations
The Luzon Strait, 0237 hours. The sea was black glass, silent, deceptive, endless. From the bridge of our modified support vessel, I watched the horizon pulse with the slow rhythm of distant cargo traffic. Somewhere out there between the Filipino islands and Taiwan’s...
by Joey Middleton | Sep 18, 2025 | SOF Operations
By Daniel Byman, Seth G. Jones, and Sofia Triana The wars in Ukraine and the Middle East offer many lessons for better understanding, conducting, and countering irregular warfare.1 On October 7, 2023, the Hamas attack on Israel combined attacks on Israeli military...
