The Long Game: Performance Longevity and the Cumulative Cost of a SOF Career

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05/21/26
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Human Health and Performance

Critical Conversations in SOF: We Know Sleep Matters. Now What?

Poor and interrupted sleep is simply a reality of SOF life.That’s why sleep is increasingly recognized within SOF not as a wellness issue, but as a readiness variable that the force must treat. The question is how we apply what the research already tells us, at scale, across the force.
05/19/26
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Life Sciences Research

Breaking Through the Barriers to NAMs Adoption

New Approach Methodologies (NAMs) are poised to transform preclinical research and toxicology. Right now there are three interconnected barriers to in vitro NAMs adoption. Moving NAMs into the mainstream will require approaches that tackle all three together.
05/06/26
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Life Sciences Research

The Gap Between NAMs Promise and NAMs Practice

New Approach Methodologies (NAMs) have demonstrated tremendous promise but there are still structural barriers standing in the way of widespread NAMs adoption. Here how to understand those gaps in promise vs. practice.
04/29/26
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Human Health and Performance

Critical Conversations in SOF: Suicide in the Military

There is no more difficult conversation in this work than the one that follows suicide. It not about a single loss. It is about ripple effects that extend across families, teams, and communities. It changes families. It stays with teammates. It challenges leaders. And it leaves questions that do not resolve quickly or cleanly.
04/08/26
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Human Health and Performance

Critical Conversations in SOF: The Family, Seen and Understood

For years, when we talked about military families within the Special Operations community, the narrative centered on grit. Resilience. Quiet sacrifice. And if this were simply about any one of those, or even all of them together, we would be fine. But it is not.
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