On October 19, 2001, only a few weeks after the September 11 terrorist attacks, American commandos struck back in Afghanistan. A task force composed of Delta Force operators, Rangers, and Night Stalkers conducted two View More ›

This interview with former Navy SEAL Commander Sam Havelock provides rare insight into the world of special operations and how people perform in the face of life-threatening challenges, ambiguity, and View More ›

by Stavros Atlamazoglou Early on October 31, commandos from SEAL Team 6 rescued an American hostage who had been abducted in northern Nigeria. The SEAL operators conducted a free-fall parachute jump close View More ›

On the battlefield, any doorway can be a death trap. A special ops vet, and his businessman brother, have built an AI to solve that problem. PHOTOGRAPH: JOHN FRANCIS PETERS View More ›

By Nancy A. Youssef U.S military commandos rescued an American being held in Nigeria after he had been kidnapped from his home in neighboring Niger days earlier, the Pentagon said Saturday. View More ›

This gold pin is notoriously tough to earn. You must pass a grueling, 65-week-long training program to get one. The Trident is a gold pin that identifies U.S. Navy SEALs, and View More ›

As conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq draw down, the US military is pivoting toward a new era of great power competition (GPC) in which China and Russia are at the top of the target View More ›

Imagine this scenario: somewhere in Eastern Europe, members of the U.S. Special Operations Command race eastward towards a newly-formed front line. The small group of soldiers are riding in the View More ›

The Battle of Mogadishu is one of the most infamous and controversial engagements in modern U.S. military history. The battle has been documented in books and film, most notably the View More ›

By Theodore Bunker The U.S. Navy SEALs and the Navy Special Warfare Combatant-craft Crewmen, or SWCC, have changed the wording of their official creed and ethos to use gender-neutral nouns in View More ›