An Overlooked Hero of Navy SEALs’ Operation Red Wings Source: ABC News Jul 1, 2015, 9:11 AM ET By JAMES GORDON MEEK When Ed and Suzanne Kristensen first heard about View More ›
Joseph Maguire, Vice Admiral, U.S. Navy (ret), discusses helping the children of the lost SEALs and soldiers of Operation Red Wings and also the release of the movie, Lone Survivor. See View More ›
More than eight years after that fateful mission, the Afghan who helped Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell came to Washington Thursday for a visit. The Afghan, Mohammad Gulab, risked all including View More ›
By Clare Fitzgerald On the evening of September 11, 2012, militants carried out a coordinated attack on the US State Department mission in Benghazi, Libya. The assault, which later extended to View More ›
Special Operations Forces (SOF) are those active duty and reserve component forces of the military services designated by the Secretary of Defense (SECDEF) and specifically selected, organized, trained, and equipped View More ›
Special operations forces have been at the forefront of U.S. combat operations in the last two decades. They are nearly at the forefront of risky combat missions—and suffer higher casualties as they View More ›
From pirate patch-wearing SEALs on Little Birds to an operator mid-air fast-roping into a stealthy boat slung under an MH-47, these shots impress. BY TYLER ROGOWAY The 160th Special Operations Aviation View More ›
For decades, US special-operations units copied the British, but now the tables are turning by Stavros Atlamazoglou In March, the UK Ministry of Defense announced a strategic shift and major reorganization of its View More ›
by Stavros Atlamazoglou An Iraqi T-55 main battle tank burns after an attack by the 1st British Armored Division during Operation Desert Storm, February 1991. CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images As the View More ›
US special-operations and law-enforcement units have specialized training to board ships at sea. Those skills aren’t exclusive to Navy SEALs, and as broader strategic competition grows, especially in the vast View More ›