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Our Fallen Heroes: Jason Dahlke

Jason Dahlke was born in Tampa, Florida on November 8th in 1979. As a child, along with his brother and three sisters, he  would move to Jacksonville, Florida  where he spent the majority of his younger years. In 1999 he moved to Orlando to attend the University of Central Florida where he graduated with a […]

Abou Zeid,Top al-Qaeda Commander, Killed in Mali

Reports are starting to trickle in that, on February 25th, one of al-Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb’s top commanders was killed by French ground forces at the foothills of the Adrar des Ifoghas, a region in Mali’s extreme Northwest, where other top AQIM leadership and numerous French hostages are believed to be located. Ennahar, an Algerian […]

French SOF Arrive in Cameroon Following Kidnapping of Family

Last Tuesday on the 19th of February, a French family vacationing in Northern Cameroon was kidnapped at gunpoint by the Nigerian-based Islamist group, Boko Haram. The family was spending time at the Waza National Park, a popular tourist destination, when five armed men armed with AK-47s kidnapped the victims from the town of Dadanga and […]

Navy SEAL Missing and Presumed Dead in Hawaii

I just learned about this moments ago… With a heavy heart, I’m sad to report that a Navy SEAL who was participating in training operations with his fellow SEALs went missing last Friday. As of February 25th, he is missing and presumed deceased after massive search and rescue operations have failed to recover the man. […]

SOF Running Amok in Wardak? No, Not Really

The media circuit has been going crazy following yesterday’s accusation by the Afghan government that United States special operations forces (reported as “Special Forces” by media outlets) have gone rogue in Afghanistan’s Wardak province and are torturing and murdering innocent civilians. The accusation was immediately followed by a presidential order from Hamid Karzai himself demanding […]

al-Qaeda Counter-Drone Tactics Found in Mali

Members of the Associate Press in Timbuktu, Mali have discovered what appears to be a list of 22 methods/tactics for enemy fighters to avoid being targeted by American drone strikes. The list which was found in a manila folder in an abandoned Islamist building was published online by the Associate Press. The document was created by Yemeni […]

FBIs HRT: Selection and Training

As part of the FBIs 30th anniversary special on their Hostage Rescue Team (HRT), I recently posted an article that included a recent video of the unit in training which can be found here: FBIs Hostage Rescue Team Marks 30th Anniversary Part 2 and 3 of the HRT special have been recently released that includes […]

FBIs Hostage Rescue Team Marks 30th Anniversary

If you go online to the FBIs official website, www.fbi.gov, you’ll see they have started a special series on their HRT unit as they mark thirty years since the unit’s inception. HRT is a competent and capable counter-terrorist unit that has provided some invaluable and first hand expertise to special operations forces in Iraq and […]

Successful HRT Hostage Rescue in Alabama: SOF Breakdown

The FBIs highly trained special operations unit, the Hostage Rescue Team, conducted a successful rescue operation in Midland City, Alabama on February 4th, 2013. Jimmy Lee Dykes, a 65 year old Vietnam War veteran, stormed a school bus on January 29th shooting the driver (Charles Poland, 66) dead and kidnapping a five-year-old little boy. Ethan, […]

French SOF Begin Hunt for AQIM Chief and Hostages

French special operations forces based out of the recently captured town of Kidal initiated a manhunt to kill or capture the Algerian-born Mokhtar Belmokhtar, commander of the al-Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb for the Mali and Algerian region. Also part of this operation is the search and recovery of the seven French hostages throughout the Sahel […]

French Foreign Legion Combat Jump in Timbuktu!

On January 28th, 2013 roughly 200 men boarded three C-160s and two C-130s located at an airfield just outside of the city Abidjan, in the Ivory Coast.  Their mission is to conduct a static line combat parachute jump into the North of Timbuktu in order to deny the Islamists an escape route into the Northern […]

Future U.S. Drone Base in Africa: SOF Perspective

The Associated Press recently reported that the United States and Niger have come into agreement to setup a United States drone base in order to provide intelligence and surveillance capabilities against Al-Qaeda in Northern Africa. The location of the proposed base is unknown (most likely undetermined). Plans are already in place for conventional and special […]