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SEAL Delivery Vehicle Team One members pull a shipmate aboard the guided-missile submarine USS Michigan during a SEAL delivery vehicle familiarization exercise in the southern Pacific Ocean, February 20, 2012. (Photo by MCS3 Kristopher Kirsop/U.S. Navy)

Submarine-Launched Commando Raids Are As Hard As Always, Navy SEALs Say

Special Operations Sep 18
(Photo by Marty Lederhandler/AP)

How Delta Force Pulled Off a Record-Setting Mission Against the Taliban Only Weeks After 9/11

JSOC Sep 16
A U.S. military Black Hawk helicopter over Kabul, April 29, 2021. (Photo by Florian Gaertner/Photothek via Getty Images )

The Final Scramble Out of Kabul Required Skills Only Commandos Have, Special-Ops Veterans Say

Afghanistan Sep 14
Taliban soldiers stand near vehicles parked near the destroyed CIA base in Deh Sabz district northeast of Kabul on September 6, 2021. (Photo by Aamir Qureshi/AFP via Getty Images)

The Taliban Tracked Down and Killed 4 Afghan Counterterrorism Agents, in One Case Pulling Out All Their Fingernails

Afghanistan Sep 13
A member of the Afghan army stands guard at a high point overlooking the Panjshir Valley (Photo by Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Alleged Human Rights Violations by Afghan Leaders Were a ‘Big Factor’ in the Country’s Fall, Experts Say

Afghanistan Sep 08
US Army Special Forces soldiers conduct fast-rope training on a roof during a night training event for Exercise during African Lion 2021 in Tifnit, Morocco, June 15, 2021. (Photo by Sgt. Jake Cox/U.S. Army)

US Special Operations Command Has Given Up on its ‘Iron Man Suit,’ But Is Still Looking for High-Tech Upgrades for its Operators

Special Operations Sep 04
Members of the U.S. Army 1st Division 9th Regiment 1st Battalion unload heavy combat equipment including Abrams tanks and Bradley fighting vehicles at the railway station near the Pabrade military base in Lithuania, on October 21, 2019. (Photo by Petras Malukas/AFP via Getty Images)

More Than a Dozen Democrats Push to Increase Defense Spending

US Politics Sep 02
A Marine joint terminal attack controller talks to a Navy MH-60S helicopter during training at Naval Air Station Fallon in Nevada, April 7, 2011. (Photo by Lance Cpl. Kyle McNally/USMC)

Special Operators Already Dealing With a Shady Piece of Chinese Technology the US Has Been Warning About

Special Operations Aug 31
Calls to suicide helplines have increased since August 16 — the day after Kabul fell to the Taliban. (Getty Images via Insider)

Calls to Veterans’ Suicide Hotlines Are Up Since the Taliban’s Takeover of Afghanistan

Veteran Culture Aug 29
US Military Is Trying to Weed Out Extremists, and Special Ops Vets Say All Units Have Some ‘More Fringe’ Members

US Military Is Trying to Weed Out Extremists, and Special Ops Vets Say All Units Have Some ‘More Fringe’ Members

Military Aug 25
A US Army Special Forces soldier briefs Guatemalan Special Forces before an exercise in Guatemala, March 3, 2020. (Photo by Spc. Aaron Schaeper/U.S. Army)

One of US Special Operators’ Most Important Skills Has Nothing to Do With Combat

Special Operations Aug 22
With New Medals 30 Years After ‘Black Hawk Down,’ Members of Secretive Delta Force Say They’re the ‘Same Deadly Fighting Machine’

With New Medals 30 Years After ‘Black Hawk Down,’ Members of Secretive Delta Force Say They’re the ‘Same Deadly Fighting Machine’

Special Operations Aug 18
The US Navy aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford during its third and final shock trial in the Atlantic Ocean on August 8. (Photo by MCS3 Novalee Manzella/U.S. Navy)

US Navy’s Top Admiral Admits They Crammed Too Much New Tech Onto Their New Aircraft Carrier

Navy Aug 17
A Soviet propaganda poster with an Arab fighter using a rifle to repel American and British warships and the phrase "Stop the Aggressor" written in Russian, 1958. (Nikolay Tereschenko/Digital Soviet Art/Getty Images)

Taking on Russia and China Has US Special Operations Command Rethinking Propaganda

Special Operations Aug 14
Why Real Navy SEALs Actually Hate the Charlie Sheen Movie About Navy SEALs

Why Real Navy SEALs Actually Hate the Charlie Sheen Movie About Navy SEALs

Entertainment Aug 12
Combat controllers with the 321st Special Tactics Squadron watch an A-10 land on a highway in Estonia, August 10, 2017. (US Air Force photo/Senior Airman Ryan Conroy)

US Special Operations Command Has Big Plans for its Armed Overwatch Attack Planes

US SOCOM Aug 04
China's new DF-41 ICBMs were showcased as road-mobile missiles, but China may be planning to put them in the ground. (Photo by Mark Schiefelbein/AP)

New Missile Silos May Be China’s Answer to Rivals With a Lot More Nukes

Weapons Aug 02
Sailors jump from an SC-7 Skyvan during military free-fall training in Eloy, Arizona, May 4, 2017. (Photo by PO2 Charles Oki/U.S. Navy)

US Special Operators Have Mastered a Tricky Infiltration Method, But There’s Still a Chance They Could Come Crashing Through Your Roof

Special Operations Jul 30
A SEAL delivery vehicle team performs a fast-rope exercise from an MH-60S Seahawk helicopter onto Los Angeles-class fast-attack submarine USS Toledo, January 17, 2005. (Photo by Journalist 3rd Class Davis J. Anderson/U.S. Navy)

Navy SEALs Have to Go “Back to the Future” to Help US Warships Survive a Future Fight With Russia or China

Special Operations Jul 28
A U.S. soldier in Somalia. (Photo by Tech. Sgt. Christopher Ruano/ AP)

US Special Operators and Their Allies Say Taking on Russia and China in Africa Requires “Strange Bedfellows”

Special Operations Jul 24