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At the same time, 45 miles north of Viernheim, the SEK Frankfurt was gearing up and getting ready to board a HELO to intervene at the cinema complex.

The NYT article about SEAL Team 6 a few weeks ago sparked yet another media frenzy on the military’s accountability and their involvement in shadow wars.

The Swiss ARD 10, Switzerland’s only Special Forces unit, though capable, lacks substantive combat experience compared to its European brothers.

In part one of this series, we established that the majority of the Swiss SOF community is made up of militia personnel. This means those soldiers are actually civilian professionals such as doctors, bankers, or farmers, and serve their country for a limited amount of time each year. The militia system In Switzerland, male citizens between the […]

“Do you even operate?” To answer this recurring Internet meme amid the SOF community’s SOCMINT (social media intelligence) chatter, I’ve decided to write about the controversial SOF capability of a neutral country. When talking about Switzerland as a nation that employs a modern military force, most get hung up on the notion that a neutral country would even […]

The terrorist attacks in Paris, Copenhagen, and most recently in Tunis have compelled the German Federal Minister of the Interior, Thomas De Maizière, to promote the idea of a new counter terrorist unit as part of the federal police. Simultaneous attacks across different locations often overwhelmed police officers and the German Police Union find that […]