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 | Aug 19, 2025 | SOF Policy
By Angus Fletcher Leading through volatility is now the most in-demand skill at U.S. companies (topping AI fluency), according to dozens of senior human resources executives I polled recently at Fortune 100 companies from an array of industries, including healthcare,...
by Joey Middleton | Aug 9, 2025 | SOF Policy
By Daniel Ross The Special Operations (SO) Imperatives just received a much-needed overhaul. These important U.S. Army Special Operations Forces (ARSOF) cultural artifacts changed relatively little over the past 35 years, but change has now arrived. The United States...
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 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 Policy
By Honorable James R. Locher III Former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict The Fourth Age of SOF: The Use and Utility of Special Operations Forces in a New Age is a sweeping monograph that chronicles the history of...
