David Maxwell
Special Forces operators in team rooms around the world are talking about the new NSS and NDS. They are trying to judge what it means for their regions. They are trying to see what it means for their teams and the missions they will be told to execute. I miss those arguments. I miss the map on the table, the coffee gone cold, and the hard questions that follow.
I view the strategies through the two SOF trinities: the missions – irregular warfare, unconventional warfare, and support to political warfare and the comparative advantages of SOF – influence, governance, and support to indigenous forces and populations. They do not use any of these words. Yet these concepts support the strategies.
I read strategy the way I read a village after dark. I look for what is protected, what is ignored, and what is feared. The 2025 National Security Strategy tells me what the administration wants. The 2026 National Defense Strategy tells me what it thinks it must do first, and what it plans to do less of.
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