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Recent international military deployments have shown the prevalence of population-centric task settings. For Special Operations Forces (SOF), engaging with local populations is part of...
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Network engagement—whether targeting adversaries or strengthening partners—is central to military operations. Assessing whether networks can endure disruption or collapse under pressure is vital for...
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The U.S. Department of War’s Joint Planning Process (JPP), optimized for tame, geographically bounded, and domain-specific problems, repeatedly falters against today’s wicked security challenges....
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This paper posits that norm entrepreneurship is a critical component of building partner capacity in fragile states because, without the adoption of U.S. military...
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Special air operations trace their origins to the special-duties units of the First World War—an often overlooked aspect of the Great War. At the...
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A common refrain whenever military leaders and policymakers are dissatisfied with military performance is to argue that Professional Military Education (PME) needs to change....
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📄 Download PDF Version Joseph Long, Independent Scholar As the special operations profession enters a new era of Special Operations Forces (SOF) involvement in geopolitical...
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📄 Download PDF Version Leo J. Blanken, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, USAJason J. Lepore, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, California, USAKai Thaxton,...
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📄 Download PDF Version J. Paul de B. Taillon, Samuel Associates, Ottawa, Canada ABSTRACTThis article provides an overview of the concept, development, deployment, and validation...
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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....
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After being thrust into World War II by Japan’s violent attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States faced a two-theater war that would test...
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📄 Download PDF Version Matthew Miller, U.S. Special Operations Command, Tampa. FL, USA ABSTRACTAs we mark the 40th anniversary of the Falklands War, the...
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📄 Download PDF Version Michael J. Mooney, U.S. Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island, USA The bravest are surely those who have the clearest...
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📄 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...