by Joey Middleton | Jul 24, 2025 | SOF Operations, SOF Policy
By Alexandra Chinchilla Introduction: Rethinking U.S. Military Advising After the failure to build a sustainable Afghan military that could survive without U.S. presence, many scholars and practitioners now argue that U.S. efforts to build foreign militaries are...
by Joey Middleton | Jul 22, 2025 | SOF Innovation, SOF Operations
By David Maxwell The U.S. Army is grappling with the emergence of agentic warfare—the convergence of artificial intelligence (AI), autonomous systems, and algorithmically driven operations that promises to transform the conduct of war. But as the strategic community...
by Joey Middleton | Jul 22, 2025 | SOF Innovation, SOF Operations
By Benjamin Jensen, Dan Tadross, and Matthew Strohmeyer It is 02:35:01Z, March 22, 2026, inside a dimly lit Forward U.S. Joint Operations Center. Screens pulse in gentle waves each a second long, reflecting streams of updated data. Unseen beneath layers of code, an...
by Joey Middleton | Jul 12, 2025 | SOF Operations, SOF Policy
By Guy D. McCardle The United States has significantly expanded its military collaboration with Taiwan, marking a historic shift in defense posture. Under the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), U.S. Army Special Forces—specifically Green Berets from the...
by Joey Middleton | Jul 7, 2025 | SOF and Strategic Competition, SOF Operations
U.S. and coalition forces are challenged by increasingly capable adversaries across all domains, the electromagnetic spectrum, and the information environment. The winners of future warfare will be those who imagine and act asymmetrically, innovate and implement the...
by Joey Middleton | Jun 19, 2025 | SOF Operations
By Joseph Trevithick As Israel’s campaign of strikes on Iran continues, a question emerges about whether some level of additional action may be required on the ground to meet the stated goal of preventing the regime in Tehran from being able to acquire nuclear...
