List of Additional Items Tying Richard Stuart Maltz to Special Operations and Asymmetric, Irregular, and Unconventional Warfare

1. List of Additional Items Tying Richard Stuart Maltz to Special
Operations and Asymmetric, Irregular, and Unconventional Warfare
1. US Army OPFOR Spetznaz operations. Throughout my military career, I have planned,
performed, and led Opposing Forces (OPFOR) operations in simulation of Soviet Special
Operations Forces (Spetznaz).
2. Citations. My name was listed in "Special Operations in United States Strategy", by Frank R.
Barnett, published by National Defense University in 1984. Additionally, my work in this area
was referenced in publications of the Naval Doctrine Command, Air University, and USJFCOM.
3. Articles, lectures, recognition, and fan mail. For the past 15 years, I have been published and
lectured extensively on the subject of "Human-Centric Warfare" (a program designed to make
the entire armed forces more SOF-like). I was also sponsored for a $285,000 study grant on this
subject. I received letters of endorsement of my research and these writings in this area from: the
Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, the Naval Doctrine Command, the Naval Leader
Training Unit, the Naval Special Warfare Center, the Marine Corps Combat Developments
Command, the Army Research Institute, the Center for Army Leadership, the Army’s Battle
Command Battle Labs, and many others. Most of the "fan mail" received for this came from the
Special Operations community, especially from the Navy SEALS.
4. JFK Special Warfare School. In the mid-1990’s, as a consequence of my writing and lectures
on the subject of Human-Centric Warfare, several prominent military theoreticians and historians
recommended me to the then USSOCOM Commander, General Steiner, who arranged for me to
be offered a teaching post at the US Army's JFK Special Warfare School.
5. Wargaming. In 2004, I attended a US-China wargame at the Naval War College in Rhode
Island on behalf of USJFCOM. I was on the China Team. We won, employing exclusively
unconventional operations. The US Team never understood itself to be at war; and was shocked
to discover that it had lost a war that it didn't know it had fought.
6. Concept Development. Also in 2004, as a Joint Concept Developer for USJFCOM, I wrote
the draft of Case II (Irregular Warfare) of the Major Combat Operations (MCO) Joint Operating
Concept (JOC). In 2005, I composed USJFCOM’s “Long War” concept for the fusion of regular
and irregular warfare in protracted war (now called “Hybrid Warfare”). In 2006, I contributed to
the Irregular Warfare-oriented Stability Operations and Urban Operations Joint Concepts.
7. Recognition from the former ARSOC Commander. In June 2006, former Army Special
Operations Command (ARSOC) Commander, MG Geoffrey Lambert, delivered a presentation to
the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC on the subject of the past and future of American
Special Operations. That presentation was divided into two parts. That portion that discussed
the future was drawn largely from my work; a fact that MG Lambert graciously acknowledged
from the podium. I attended, at his invitation. He mentioned my name and acknowledged my
work several times during his presentation (at one point, asking me to stand to be recognized).

2. 8. Writings for USJFCOM. The focus of my own writings, for USJFCOM, for publication, and
for the "Cognitive Domain Cabal" (an informal global network of national security professionals
dedicated to the proposition that the cognitive domain is the decisive domain in conflict, which I
founded in 2003) has centered on unconventional, irregular, and asymmetric warfare.
9. Irregular Warfare studies at National Defense University (NDU). Since 2002, I have drafted
and continue to develop USJFCOM’s list of “Proposed Research Topics” and “Special Areas
of Emphasis” for NDU, Service Schools, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
(DARPA); and I continue to serve as the official USJFCOM liaison to NDU and the Services for
“Key Strategic Issues”. Most of these topics, areas, and issues are irregular in nature.
10. Writings for publication. My articles on Strategy, Transformation, Philosophy, and
Conducting Operations in the Cognitive Domain are still being published by Parameters (US
Army War College), Military Review (US Army Command and General Staff College), A
Common Perspective (USJFCOM DEG), SITREP (Royal Canadian Military Institute), Defense
in the National Interest (DNI), Joint Center for Operational Analysis (JCOA) Journal,
Diplomacy World, Military Intelligence Professional Bulletin and Military Intelligence
magazine (US Army Intelligence Center), Vanguard (Military Intelligence Corps Association),
and The Wright Stuff (Air University Press)).
11. Recruitment. In 2007, recognition of my work in these fields, I was inducted into JFCOM’s
“Black Swan Society”, a group of PhD’s dedicated to fostering military transformation through
enhancement of organizational productivity. I was also inducted that year, for the same reason,
into the Cognitive Systems Engineering Consortium and Cognitive Engineering and Decision-
Making Technical Group of Human Factors Society (I had already been inducted, in 1996, into
the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society).
12. Requests to support ARSOC and USSOC. Since 2007, and continuing today, I have been
approached by several in the Special Operations Community, including the USSOCOM SOKF-
J9 Liaison Officer (LNO), who suggested that there are there are many people at ARSOC and
USSOCOM familiar with my Concept Development work and anxious for me to support them
directly. I have since received several tentative and contingency offers to do so.
13. Strategic Communication. In 2008, I edited the Joint “Strategic Communication” Hand-
book (the author had incorporated many of my writings on the subject; but these were deemed by
Army and DoD reviewers to be too politically sensitive to appear in an unclassified document).
Also since that time, I have been asked to co-administer the State Department’s Strategic
Communication Working Group website and the Army War College’s and National Intelligence
University’s Proteus Institute’s website dealing with “Cognitive Domain”.
14. Lecture at the Army War College. In 2009, I lectured on the related subjects of Strategy,
Transformation, Philosophy, and Operations in the Cognitive Domain at the Army War
College’s Strategic Studies Institute’s (SSI’s) 2009 Annual Strategy Conference. I was
subsequently asked by the SSI to expand my lecture into a monograph to be published in their
“Advanced Strategic Thought” series.