Faculty Student Collaboration Results in Special Operations Research Database

A unique component of any master’s degree program is the ability to pave your own path, tailored to your own interests and ambitions. Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies student Chuck Woodson MANPTS ’18 took this to heart in pursuing an ambitious directed study project: the creation of Middlebury’s very own Special Operations Research Database, or SORD. Together with Dr. Orion Lewis of Middlebury College, Chuck created this project to better document the experiences of the special operations community in order to draw analysis and lessons for future counterterrorism policy.