Australia is engaged in strategic competition with autocratic regimes, yet its defense policy remains disproportionately oriented toward conventional conflict. This paper argues that proxy...
This article introduces the concept of proxy battlespaces to explain Ukraine’s deployment of Special Operations Forces (SOF) in Sudan, Syria, and Mali. At a...
This article examines how irregular warfare in the maritime domain (IW-M) can strengthen national defense strategies for smaller states confronting more powerful naval adversaries....
📄 Download PDF Version Leo J. Blanken, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, USAJason J. Lepore, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, California, USAKai Thaxton,...
📄 Download PDF Version J. Paul de B. Taillon, Samuel Associates, Ottawa, Canada ABSTRACTThis article provides an overview of the concept, development, deployment, and validation...
While the 1961 U.S. invasion of Cuba—dubbed the “Bay of Pigs Invasion”—has received significant public scrutiny, academic scholarship on the topic has lagged behind....
📄 Download PDF Version Matthew Miller, U.S. Special Operations Command, Tampa. FL, USA ABSTRACTAs we mark the 40th anniversary of the Falklands War, the...
📄 Download PDF Version ABSTRACTThis article provides ten surprising lessons for Special Operations Forces (SOF) from the first year-and-a-half of Russia’s criminal and ill-advised...
📄 Download PDF Version Rikke Haugegaard, Ph.D. Fellow, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark ABSTRACTThis article aims to contribute to the understanding of speed as...
📄 Download PDF Version Robert M. Mitchell, Joint Special Operations University, Tampa, Florida, USA ABSTRACTThe article considers the process of ethical decision-making in the...
📄 Download PDF Version Thomas R. Searle, Joint Special Operations University, Tampa, Florida, USA ABSTRACTThe Trump and Biden administrations loudly proclaimed the end of...