Special operations forces are no strangers to chasing the bleeding edge. But in 2025, the technological knife fights have moved far past sharper knives and faster bullets. Today’s evolving battlefield is a seething fever dream of algorithms, robots, and synthetic realities where the man with the most information and the fewest volts running through his brain might just walk away clean. Here are the five defense technologies rewriting the SOF playbook right now—each one as strange and dangerous as the times demand.

Artificial Intelligence: The New Command Presence

Artificial Intelligence (AI) isn’t just about faster data crunching or chatbots in camouflage; it’s the behind-the-scenes presence sitting inside every comms node and drone, war-gaming scenarios while operators lace

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