by Joey Middleton | May 18, 2026 | SOF Policy
Bringing Special Operations Research Into the Open Special Operations Research: Out of the Shadows marked an important moment in the development of special operations scholarship. Published in the inaugural issue of Special Operations Journal (SOJ), which later...
by Joey Middleton | Apr 13, 2026 | SOF Operations, SOF Policy
By By Chief Warrant Officer 2 Greg Settle Introduction In recent years, some theater special operations commands (TSOCs) have tended to focus more on scrutinizing the actions of tactical units than on synchronizing resources and activities to support broader campaign...
by Joey Middleton | Feb 13, 2026 | SOF Operations, SOF Policy
By Justin Clipson Introduction This essay argues that strategic sabotage must be a SOF core activity to win future conflicts. The Global War on Terror (GWOT) created a SOF community that is used to being the supported entity. SOF dismantled terrorist networks with...
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...
