Founder and President of Heroic Hearts Project Jesse Gould was a member of the U.S. Army’s elite 75th Ranger Regiment. He told SOAA about his travels to Peru to find…
Mexican drug trafficking organizations have infiltrated criminal networks worldwide to spread their destabilizing influence far beyond their continental borders. The Trump administration has hit back against cartels that ship deadly…
Last month, we welcomed our new president at SOAA, Jack Barry, a veteran of the U.S. Army’s 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (SOAR). A longtime member of the SOAA ecosystem,…
On April 18, President Donald Trump signed an executive order easing the pathway to researching psychedelic therapies in hopes of finding treatments that could put the brakes on an epidemic…
Public-private coordination, capital deployment, and the policy frameworks that determine whether resilience is real or aspirational. This closing panel is from our conference with the Irregular Warfare Initiative, and it…
Building resilient critical mineral supply chains requires more than policy. It requires capital moving at scale and moving in the right direction. This conversation is from our conference with the…
You cannot secure what you cannot see. This panel is from our conference with the Irregular Warfare Initiative, and it covers the tools, data, and approaches being built right now…
Emerging extraction methods, alternative materials, and reshoring efforts that could reduce American dependence on foreign-controlled processing. This panel is from our conference with the Irregular Warfare Initiative in July 2026.…
Industry leaders who operate in contested environments discuss what it actually takes to move materials, build infrastructure, and manage risk in places where the rules are unclear and the stakes…
Non-state actors, shadow trade, and proxy dynamics are reshaping how critical minerals move around the world. This panel is from our conference with the Irregular Warfare Initiative, and it examines…