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Popular Resources
Upcoming Courses
*Continuous Learning (CL) courses are not shownSpecial Operations Forces- Influence and Operations in the Information Environment (Pilot)
Summit
Theater Special Operations Command Staff Preparation Course-Mobile
Recent Publications
Special Operations Research Topics 2023
The Network Illusion: How a Network-Centric Special Operations Culture Impedes Strategic Effect
ArcticNEXT: Compound Security Threats in Strategic Competition
Featured Publications
Quick Links
JSOU's Upcoming Events
ThinkJSOU with Dr. Rory Cormac: How To Stage A Coup And Ten Other Lessons from the World of Secret Statecraft
Lunchtime Talk with Nick Reynolds: Need to Know: World War II and the Rise of American Intelligence
Recently Ended
Lunchtime Talk with Nick Reynolds: Need to Know: World War II and the Rise of American Intelligence
Lunchtime Talk: Irregular Warfare in Strategic Competition
ThinkJSOU Panel: The 2022 National Security Strategy and Interagency Cooperation
Partner-Force Leadership for Joint SOF Professionals (Pilot)
Description
Created by SOF, for SOF! This course is the second course in the Joint SOF Leadership & SOF Professional Ethic Integrated Program of Study with Cornell University. It builds on the foundational principles of leadership from the SOF Leadership Foundations Course. This course delivers a SOF-specific educational theory of partner-force leadership (PFL) oriented toward relational, cross-cultural, and indirect leadership styles that enhance the critical thinking and ethical decision-making of SOF formations deployed in developing countries where SOF forces are perpetually engaged in global operations. The course leverages non-traditional leadership theories that include relational, cross-cultural, and indirect leadership styles for building connectedness in highly complex and hazardous SOF environments where leading partner forces and associated populations is critical for strategic success in the compounded security environment. For student planning purposes, the course is nine weeks long. Students will convene via Zoom once a week for two hours each class session. The one week between classroom sessions gives students time to read, reflect, and complete assigned tasks per lesson.
Audience
· Primary – Entry-level Joint SOF professionals who deploy and conduct operations at the SOF team-level or detachment-level and who are likely to engage in direct partner-force leadership in support of strategic military objectives or geographic and/or functional combatant commander objectives. Experienced partner-force-leadership “command teams” that are responsible for employing and mentoring SOF operational detachments and teams as stewards of the SOF profession are also target students. · Secondary – Joint SOF-enablers working in the SOF profession and select members of USSOCOM’s SOF Network of multinational and interagency partner personnel who enhance the quality of American partner-force leadership as part of operations aligned with U.S. strategic guidance.
Materials
Provided via Blackboard