Author: Guy D. McCardle

It’s been no secret to the world for several months that something is very wrong with Russian President Vladimir Putin

In the days and hours leading up to the D-Day invasion, extremely dangerous missions were given to the British Special Air Service (SAS) commandos, Navy UDT divers, and Jedburgh teams. You may be asking, “What’s a Jedburgh team?” Read on to find out.

The war in Ukraine is of a highly fluid nature and is a hybrid sort of conflict mixing conventional and special operations forces on the same battlefield. There are some lessons there for SOCOM which they are surely paying attention to.

Usually, the majority of the fog of war is contained on the battlefield; today, it has spread to the White House and the media.

Everyone knows the story of George Armstrong Custer, but few know the story of his brother Tom, who George said should have been a general instead of him.

As far as weapons systems go, the Stinger is kind of old. It was first designed in 1967 and went into production starting in 1978. Let’s have a look at the Stinger that’s been stinging the Russians.

I returned home from a 15-month deployment in 2004 a different man than when I left. I had been medically separated from the service, and although I didn’t want to admit it, I needed help—apparently, a bunch of it.

The US shipping Harpoon and Naval Strike Missiles to Ukraine could bottle up the Russian Black Seas Fleet in port for good.

Putin’s army has tried every means thinkable to take the Ukrainian City of Rubizhne. Some weapons were used in unconventional ways. Take, for instance, their use of the UR-77 Mine Clearing Vehicle, nicknamed the Meteorite.

In a nod to the international efforts to repel the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Norway has sent Mistral anti-aircraft missiles systems to Ukraine which is mounting them on Italian Fiat trucks donated by a humanitarian organization.

The Navy has released the name of the Sailor killed in a helicopter mishap at Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek in Virginia.

A 21-year-old Russian soldier went on trial Friday in Kyiv for the murder of an unarmed civilian. This marks the first such prosecution since Russia invaded the sovereign nation of Ukraine on February 24, 2022.