by Joey Middleton | Oct 21, 2026 | SOF Policy
“SO/LIC, are you gonna get rid of the ‘LIC’? More to follow on that.” David Maxwell Owen West’s brief remark during the 2026 AUSA Project Agincourt autonomous warfare panel deserves attention beyond the room. West, a former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special...
by Joey Middleton | Oct 21, 2026 | SOF Policy, Uncategorized
By Dr. Joseph Long Introduction The modern Special Operations Forces (SOF) leader operating in an Irregular Warfare (IW) environment cannot rely on command authority alone. As demonstrated in the Guerrilla Leader Theory, succeeding within the human domain requires...
by Joey Middleton | Aug 9, 2026 | SOF Policy
By Woody Hurd On my first deployment to the Middle East with 5th Special Forces Group, I was tasked with setting up a notoriously complex tactical SATCOM node on a rooftop. I was the team’s 18D (Medical Sergeant), and most of the team, including our 18E...
by Joey Middleton | Aug 4, 2026 | SOF Policy
By Dr. David Dorsey, by David S. Maxwell, by Michael Ingerick, by Mick Crnkovich The Adaptive Performance Core Central to our arguments throughout this four-part series, we propose “adaptive performance” as a central organizing SOF performance construct, encompassing...
by Joey Middleton | Jul 27, 2026 | SOF Policy
By Dr. David Dorsey, by David S. Maxwell, by Michael Ingerick, by Mick Crnkovich Technological Transformation The technological shifts introduced in Part 2 (The Two Trinities and the Human-Domain Advantage) should be read against the criterion space established by the...
by Joey Middleton | Jul 22, 2026 | SOF Policy
By Dr. David Dorsey Anchoring the Criterion Space in the Two SOF Trinities: An Example Part 1 (The Operator Is the Platform) established that the SOF operator is the platform and that the validity of any SOF assessment, selection, and qualification (ASQ) system...
