ARTICLE SUBMISSIONS:

Special Warfare aims to inform, educate, and bring awareness to the talented, highly effective, and instrumental skill sets of Special Operations Forces. 
We welcome submissions of academic work from students, professors, and cadre of the U.S. Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School, scholarly, independent research from members of the armed forces, security policymakers and shapers, defense analysts, academic specialists and civilians from the U.S. and abroad. Manuscripts should be 500 to 3,000 words in length. Include a cover letter with the following: Full Name, Rank, Job Title, email address, phone number, Intended Audience (1-3 sentences), Abstract/Brief Summary (1-3 paragraphs), and Key Words. 
Manuscripts should be submitted in plain text, double-spaced and in a digital file. Endnotes should accompany works in lieu of embedded footnotes. The Chicago Manual of Style is the professional citation guidance used by Special Warfare. For writing style, Special Warfare  consults the Associated Press Stylebook and the Department of Defense’s Manual for Written Material, especially with regard to military acronyms and definitions. AI is useful for ideation, however no publishable article in Special Warfare can be written exclusively by AI. Articles that require security clearance should be cleared by the author’s security manager and public affairs office prior to submission. A memo of the security clearance should be forwarded with the article. If the article talks about a specific theater special operations command, the article will be forwarded to the TSOC for clearance. 

SUBMISSION REVIEW AND PUBLICATION:

Please note that submitted content is not guaranteed to be published in Special Warfare. There are several factors
that determine what content is ultimately published including time and space availability, the approved editorial
outline and theme, as well as relevance to the Special Warfare target audience and mission.
Special Warfare reserves the right to edit all contributions. Special Warfare will attempt to afford authors an
opportunity to review the final edited version; requests for changes must be received by the given deadline.
No payment or honorarium is authorized for publication of articles or photographs. Material appearing in Special
Warfare is considered to be in the public domain and is not protected by copyright unless it is accompanied by the
author’s copyright notice. Published works may be reprinted, except where copyrighted, provided credit is given to
Special Warfare and the authors.