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...
by Joey Middleton | May 8, 2025 | SOF Policy
By Ben Wolfgang TAMPA, Fla. — The special operations forces of the 21st century must be tailored to help the U.S. “prevail in a high-end conflict” and designed to thrive in environments that could define an American clash with a powerful adversary such...
by Joey Middleton | May 8, 2025 | SOF Policy
By Matthew Olay, DOD News Colby Jenkins, performing the duties of the assistant secretary of defense for special operations and low-intensity conflict, outlined his priorities for the future of the special warfare community while delivering remarks today during...
by Joey Middleton | May 5, 2025 | SOF Policy
By Gen. Bryan P. Fenton Commander, USSOCOM In a not-so-distant future, the United States may face a combination of National Defense Strategy competitors in a shooting war while still holding terrorist groups at bay and responding to yet more crises across the globe....
by Joey Middleton | May 1, 2025 | SOF Policy
by J.R. Seeger Introduction In the past six months, two different opinion pieces, here and here, have raised the possibility of reviving the Office of Strategic Services (OSS). These recommendations are by no means new. Over the past 80 years, there have been multiple...
