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April 14, 2026
Nexus/Triad Strategic-Level Synthesis

How can USSOCOM overcome strategic-level integration challenges, such as information sharing and clearance issues, to rapidly synthesize and implement a space-SOF-cyber nexus with allies and partners for effective deterrence and conflict operations?
April 14, 2026
Chinese Use of Resistance Groups

By analyzing the PRC's historical support for resistance movements and the current influence operations of the CCP United Front, how can a strategy be developed to counter China's potential future sponsorship of dissident organizations as its elite capture strategies become less effective?
April 14, 2026
Role of AI in Enhancing Regional Security and Multi-Domain Training

How can SOUTHCOM, JSOU, and NATO forces integrate AI and synthetic environments into multi-domain training and operations to improve interoperability, decision-making, and readiness against transnational threats in the Western Hemisphere, while navigating ethical considerations?
April 14, 2026
Ethical, Legal and Operational Challenges of AI-Driven Warfare and Autonomous Systems

How can SOF navigate the complex ethical, legal, and operational challenges of deploying AI-driven autonomous systems, ensuring accountability and compliance with international law while balancing the need for rapid decision-making with the preservation of human rights?
April 13, 2026
Conventional Support to Irregular Warfare, Coalition Operations, and the Utility of SOF in Strategic Competition

How must Special Operations Forces integrate with conventional capabilities and leverage allied networks to operationalize irregular warfare, utilizing both historical lessons and emerging technologies to achieve strategic deterrence and "win without fighting" in an era of global
April 13, 2026
Integration of Emerging Technologies into SOF Operations

How can SOF effectively integrate emerging technologies like AI, ML, and cyber capabilities, including in multinational settings, to enhance mission success while balancing the associated operational gains and risks?
April 13, 2026
Advanced Data Acquisition and Management for Joint SOF

How can SOF best define its requirements for, acquire, and utilize the advanced data management and processing systems necessary to effectively employ AI/ML for operational advantage?
April 13, 2026
Low-Probability, High-Consequence Events

How can SOF adapt its risk methodologies, decision-making, and resource allocation to better plan for, and manage the follow-on effects and subsequent de-escalation campaigns of, low-probability, high-consequence events?
April 13, 2026
Harnessing Data for Irregular Warfare

How can SOF better capitalize on data-analytics systems, data-driven technologies, and AI/ML-enabled capabilities to develop new warfighting concepts for irregular warfare?
April 13, 2026
Space Situational Awareness and Space Debris

How must the United States and the international community evolve Space Situational Awareness to manage a congested cis-lunar environment, mitigate collision risks from nanosatellites, and implement legal or financial frameworks for space debris removal?