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Fighting Without Fighting: Wu Wei and Strategic Conduct in Special Operations
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Fabio Gomes
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The Wrong Question: Why the Special Forces Debate Never Ends
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Maurice "Duc" DuClos
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Reforge the Beret: Special Forces and Education Cognitive Warfare Demands
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William F. Lyons Jr.
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Fighting Without Fighting: Wu Wei and Strategic Conduct in Special Operations 2026 Special Operations Research Topics: Academic Year 2027 Addendum Echoes of Little Bighorn: Insights for SOF Success Leveraging Social Media Intelligence and Open-Source Intelligence for AI-Driven Predictive Analytics in Irregular Warfare The Perils of Misconception: Why U.S. Strategy Misjudges the Nature of Proxy Resistance From Guns for Hire to Military Doctrine: Russia’s Institutionalization of Influence in Africa—Implications and Recommendations for U.S. Special Operations Forces

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Improving SOF Ethics Education
Authored by:
Clark, Mike; Labuz, John; Long, Joseph E., Thyne, Kari
Navigating the Transition: The Role of Purpose, Tribe, and Excitement for U.S. Special Operations Forces Veterans
Authored by:
Joseph Rossi
Special Forces Does Not Have an Identity Crisis, SOF Has a Special Forces Identity Problem: A Response to Colonel Croot
Authored by:
David Shell
Mission or Meaning? Rethinking the Identity Crisis in U.S. Army Special Forces
Authored by:
Siamak T. Naficy, PhD, and W5 Maurice "Duc" DuClos
Security Cooperation and Special Operations Forces: Training and Education Are Needed Now More than Ever
Authored by:
Colonel (Retired) John Chere, Jr.
Who Are the Green Berets Supposed to Be? Revisiting the Special Forces Identity Crisis
Authored by:
Greg E. Metzgar
The Special Forces Identity Crisis and Rethinking All of Special Operations
Authored by:
Retired Lt. Col. Greg Banner

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