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  • No First Use Policy

    What would be the full impact of a U.S. "No First Use" nuclear policy on allied assurance, extended deterrence commitments, and the required force structure of U.S. strategic forces?

  • Homeland Defense Concepts

    How can the Joint Force develop affordable and effective strategies to identify adversary threats, enhance the resilience of both DoD and non-DoD critical infrastructure, and ensure rapid recovery from potential disruptions that enable military operations?

  • Defense Industrial and Innovation Base

    How can the DoD overcome its internal barriers to innovation by better leveraging commercially developed technologies and allied industrial capacity to deliver path-breaking capabilities faster and at a lower cost?

  • Understanding the Will to Resist

    How can SOF effectively understand, measure, and shape a population's will to resist by differentiating between the will to fight and the will to win, focusing on both individual and group levels, and potentially predicting where future resistance movements are likely to occur?

  • Future of Information and Influence

    As emerging technologies blur the line between fact and fiction, what are the second and third-order effects on strategic influence, and how will societies adapt to an environment of pervasive potential disinformation?

  • Technological Impacts on Ethical Autonomy

    As wearable, edible, and injectable technologies become more integrated with SOF operators, what are the primary risks to their ethical autonomy, and what specific measures can the SOF enterprise implement to ensure individuals maintain control over their decision-making capabilities?

  • SOF Components and Joint Special Operations Command

    How should the SOF service components and JSOC optimize their structures, training, and unique capabilities to effectively execute strategic competition and integrated deterrence missions, while also identifying and developing necessary new technologies and joint force integration best practices?

  • Special Operations Command Central

    How can SOF better understand and anticipate shifts in the Middle East's regional balance of power by analyzing the complex interplay of diplomatic alliances, economic developments, global energy transitions, and their potential to alter the risk-reward calculus for both state and non-state

  • Special Operations Command Europe

    Drawing on historical lessons, how can U.S. SOF, in coordination with allies and partners, best support the transition of Ukrainian SOF to a peacetime footing, considering force size reductions, critical capability preservation, and potential NATO accession?

  • Historic PRC–Taiwan Provocation Cycle

    Through an analysis of politics, military capabilities, regional posture, economics, and the information environment, what historical patterns emerge in the People's Republic of China's military provocations toward Taiwan?