Lt. Gen. Scott Miller is currently the commander of the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC). He has commanded at every rank from captain to lieutenant general, to include combat tours in Somalia, Afghanistan, and Iraq, as well as support for contingency operations in Bosnia and Latin America. Prior to his arrival at JSOC, Lt. Gen. […]

Around 400 US special operations forces are training Somali troops in their fight against the militant group al-Shabaab. About 800 other US servicemembers are based in Niger, where four Green Berets were killed in October. Join MWI for an interdisciplinary panel discussion on the expanding US military role in Africa. Panel participants: Mr. John Melkon, […]

Why do some people go abroad to engage in other people’s wars? Some studies attempt to discern why individuals choose to fight in distant lands or seek to count how many do so. The term "foreign fighter" has been used nearly exclusively in recent research to describe transnational fighters who join with Islamist organizations, or […]