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Banner illustration for An Institutional Home for ARSOF Robotics: Establishing a SORD-Training Company for Standards, Training, and Doctrine (Illustration by Special Warfare Journal staff.)An Institutional Home for ARSOF Robotics:
Establishing a SORD-Training Company for Standards, Training, and Doctrine

ARSOF requires a dedicated institutional organization to develop, standardize, and sustain robotics training, doctrine, experimentation, and Special Operations Robotics Detachment (SORD) support. Currently, these functions are scattered across schools, MOS pipelines, ad hoc initiatives, and unit-level efforts. Each group builds SORD capabilities independently with its own standard and its own assumptions, which means the force has many versions of "trained" and no agreed definition of it. Standardization of institutional training is an explicit role at the U.S. Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School (SWCS). A SORD Training and Integration Company (SORD-T) within SWCS would provide the missing connective tissue between MOS pipelines, advanced robotics courses, operational detachments, and emerging technology. This article is not focused on any singular course it presents a force-design proposal, focusing on a sustainable, neutral, institutional home for robotics capability generation.
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Banner image Outside the Wire: Information Warfare As Long-Range Effects.

July 30, 2026

Outside the Wire: Information Warfare As Long-Range Effects

Information warfare is often treated as a messaging problem, but in modern conflict it can function as a long-range effector. A narrative, image, video, or allegation can be delivered across continents, aimed at a specific audience, amplified through social media, and used to create physical or operational effects: delaying a ship, disrupting logistics, suppressing weapons shipments, influencing legislators, or forcing commanders to divert resources. This does not mean that every protest or unpopular opinion is enemy action. In a democracy, dissent is part of the terrain the military exists to defend. But adversaries understand that free societies can be influenced without being invaded. If a missile, mine, or saboteur can delay a military cargo movement, and a narrative can produce a similar delay by mobilizing people against that movement, then the narrative deserves to be planned against, defended against, and assessed with the same seriousness as other long-range effects.

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