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Popular Resources
Upcoming Courses
*Continuous Learning (CL) courses are not shownJoint SOF Logistics Course
SOF Chaplain Spiritual and Moral Resiliency
Joint Special Operations Forces Senior Enlisted Academy
Recent Publications
Moral Injury: Implications for U.S. SOF and Ethical Resiliency
SOF Quills for the Porcupine: Applying Lessons from Ukraine to Taiwan
Disruptive Technology in SOF-Peculiar Environments: Promises and Challenges in Development, Management, and Acquisition and Procurement
Recently Ended
ThinkJSOU with Dr. Daniel Moore: "Offensive Cyber Operations: Understanding Intangible Warfare"
Lunchtime Talk with Nick Reynolds, Author of Need to Know: World War II and the Rise of American Intelligence
ThinkJSOU with Dr. Rory Cormac: How To Stage A Coup And Ten Other Lessons from the World of Secret Statecraft
Irregular Warfare Course
Description
This course provides students with tools and concepts to analyze IW theories and practices. Through case studies, multimedia, and selected readings, students will be better equipped to collaborate with partners as well as outthink and out innovate adversaries in a complex operating environment. This course has a four week distance learning requirement as well as the one week resident portion. Students should expect about 20 hours of readings and discussion posts required during the distance learning portion.
Audience
This blended course is taught at the undergraduate level and is designed specifically for the special operations community, interagency, and international partners. The student profile is E5-E8, W1-4, O1-O3, and their civilian agency equivalents (i.e., GS-5-13) assigned to USSOCOM, TSOC, or a component directly supporting joint or coalition special operations.
Materials
All required texts and materials are available to the student on the JSOU e-Campus using the Blackboard Learning Management System. Each student MUST have the Zoom app, audio / visual capability, and access to commercial internet and the JSOU e-Campus site prior to and throughout the course.