by Joey Middleton | Feb 22, 2025 | SOF Operations
By Kevin Maurer U.S. surveillance flights cut through the skies probing for fentanyl plants in Mexico. American soldiers string barbed wire along the Southern border. The State Department just designated six Mexican cartels as foreign terrorist organizations...
by Joey Middleton | Feb 7, 2025 | SOF Operations
by Zita Ballinger Fletcher The link between terrorism and drug trafficking organizations, or DTOs, is now at the forefront of public debate due to President Donald Trump’s recent designation of cartels as foreign terrorist organizations. His suggestion to deploy U.S....
by Joey Middleton | Feb 4, 2025 | SOF Operations
By Brandan P. Buck President Trump was elected in 2024 partly on his promise of ending “America’s endless wars.” The Trump administration says it doesn’t want new wars, boldly declaring that “[w]e will measure our success not only by the battles we win but also by the...
by Joey Middleton | Jan 27, 2025 | SOF Operations
By Robert Greenway, Andrés Martínez-Fernández and Wilson Beaver Given the rapidly deteriorating conditions at the U.S. border with Mexico and only tenuous U.S.–Mexico cooperation, it is appropriate for the U.S. to engage in serious planning and preparation for an...
by Roro Fernandez | Sep 27, 2023 | SOF Operations
U.S. military captures ISIS official in helicopter raid in Syria Bill Roggio Senior Fellow and Editor of FDD’s Long War Journal The U.S. military captured an Islamic State “Operational and Facilitation official” during an operation in northern Syria last...
by Wayne Gregory | Mar 27, 2022 | SOF Operations
COIN AND CULTURE: HOW IMPORTANT IS CULTURAL INTELLIGENCE IN COUNTERINSURGENCY? Read full article on Modern War Institute It has become axiomatic that cultural intelligence is key to success in counterinsurgency operations. But is it? This episode examines this...
