The Terrain Before the Terrain: Why Special Operations Forces Must Master Administrative Battlespace

Introduction: The Domain JADO Cannot See

Joint All-Domain Operations (JADO) represents a necessary evolution in modern warfare. JADO provides frameworks for synchronizing military capabilities across land, sea, air, cyber, space, and electromagnetic spectrum domains to achieve convergent effects that overwhelm adversaries through coordinated action rather than domain-by-domain operations. As Matthew Prescott recently argued in these pages, effective JADO requires “all-terrain planning”...