by Stavros Atlamazoglou Recently, Rear Adm. H. Wyman Howard III, the top SEAL officer and a former commander of SEAL Team 6, testified in Congress and highlighted Naval Special Warfare Command’s View More ›
I’d Never Been Involved in Anything as Secret as This
The plan to kill Osama bin Laden—from the spycraft to the assault to its bizarre political backdrop—as told by the people in the room. By GARRETT M. GRAFF On the morning View More ›
Special Ops Aren’t A Substitute For Strategy
Overused and overstretched in the “global war on terror” since 9/11, Special Operations Forces need Biden to give them a break so they can refocus on Russia, China, and the View More ›
How Special Ops Became the Solution to Everything
They’ve become a major military player—and maybe a substitute for strategic thinking. By Mark Bowden Within the span of a few decades, the United States has utterly transformed its military, View More ›
One of the first members of the modern-day Navy SEAL teams has died
Harry Beal, one of the first sailors to volunteer for a modern-era Navy SEAL team, died late last month at the age of 90, according to his online obituary posted at View More ›
After Training Changes, Air Force SERE School Sees Near-Historic Low Attrition
Air Force Staff Sgt. Dillon Harrison, 66th Training Squadron Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape specialist, stands in formation during a SERE Specialist Apprentice Course graduation ceremony at Fairchild Air Force View More ›
Waging war below the waves: Special Forces combat diver school is in session
by Abraham Mahshie, Defense Reporter NAVAL AIR STATION KEY WEST, Florida — A UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter hovered so low on the water during a recent demonstration that it created concentric white View More ›
A Green Beret recalls the Christmas Day mission that was almost his last
Stavros Atlamazoglou Dec 25, 2020, 7:30 AM During the Vietnam War, US special operators conducted covert raids deep inside Laos, Cambodia, and North Vietnam. Their missions took them to places View More ›
‘Raw bravery’: Barrett awards special tactics airman the Air Force Cross for valor in firefight | Air Force Times
United States forces and Afghan forces were ambushed on the 8th of April and were under “intense machine gun and sniper fire.” This resulted in a firefight in which Germanovich, View More ›
The story of the first special-ops mission deep inside Afghanistan just weeks after 9/11, from troops who were there
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 ›
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