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...
by Joey Middleton | Jul 1, 2025 | SOF Policy
FM 3-05 Army Special Operations (JUN25) FM 3-05 provides U.S. Army planners and forces with the principles, tactics, and procedures to execute Army special operations and related activities. Foreword Since the days of the Revolutionary War, Army Special Operations...
by Joey Middleton | Jun 2, 2025 | SOF Policy
By Benjamin Jensen Director, Futures Lab, and Senior Fellow, Defense and Security Department Before dawn on June 1, 2025, Ukrainian intelligence and special-operations planners initiated truck-launched first-person-view (FPV) drones they had hidden in trucks...
by Joey Middleton | May 19, 2025 | SOF Policy
By Patrick Tucker “SOF is floated as a one-size-fits-all solution for a lot of problems,” said one former official. Today’s special operators are rapidly becoming the model for the rest of the U.S. military, disrupting how the Defense Department does everything from...
