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Norway’s military has been open to women fighting in combat positions for over 30 years. While Special Forces units were also open to female soldiers, none had made entry into that country’s Navy SEAL-like FSK. It wasn’t until Norway was participating in anti-terror actions in predominantly Muslim countries that the nation’s military realized they had […]

“Nobody believes in it. You’re like, ‘Fuck this,’” a former Green Beret says of America’s covert and clandestine programs to train and arm Syrian militias. “Everyone on the ground knows they are jihadis. No one on the ground believes in this mission or this effort, and they know they are just training the next generation of jihadis, […]

(For Ms Jesse) Read Part One and Part Two here. The Reaper’s brow furled slightly a couple of times, then it engaged in a full-caliber ‘knit’ solution, as he painfully processed a precocious plan of mine. “Aw, dang-nabbit; and I was doing so well…” I lamented. “Don’t stick a fork in that plan just yet, […]

In every pistol class that we’ve done, the students as well as instructors ask, “How do you carry concealed?”  Everyone has a different answer. Whether they are a member of the special operations community, competition pistol shooter, LE or civilian, just about everyone has a different point of view. Some carry positions are better than others, […]

Edward Snowden has set out the case for Barack Obama granting him a pardon before the US president leaves office in January, arguing that the disclosure of the scale of surveillance by US and British intelligence agencies was not only morally right but had left citizens better off. The US whistleblower’s comments, made in an interview […]

The U.S. Navy has rebuked him and effectively ended his once-promising career in the military. But Lt. David Nartker makes no apologies for his actions when two boats under his command strayed into Iranian waters and ended up captured by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. In an exclusive interview with Foreign Policy, Nartker defended his role […]

Former MARSOC team member Michael Golembesky has published his second book titled, “Dagger 22” and it goes on sale September 20th. Dagger 22 gives readers a “grittier feel; more aggressive, with a deeper personal story-line” from Ski’s deployment in Afghanistan with his MARSOC team. Below is a Q&A with Michael Golembesky: 1) You mention in the author’s note at the beginning of  Dagger 22, […]

The 13-year-old girl’s explanation for why she had decided to leave her happy family in London to fly East and join ISIS was frighteningly naive: “She told me, ‘Well, I was looking at photos online and I thought I was going to go live in the Islamic Disneyworld,’” quotes Yasmin Green, head of research and development at Jigsaw, the […]

Last July, just over a year ago, Green Beret Tim Brumit made the wrong call. Thinking he saw a drowning girl in stormy seas a short distance from his boat, he dove into the choppy surf, but misjudged the depth—and instantly broke his neck. The missing girl was later found safe on shore. Now paralyzed […]

Our cities and buildings on that Tuesday in September were not the first battlefields of this war, but they are the ones onto which we imbue our grief.

We parents remember it like a vivid nightmare. Our children, though, were not yet born. How can they comprehend? What will we say to them? And, perhaps most importantly, how can understanding the events of September 11, 2001 help them understand the scary things they may see on the news today? Fifteen years past September […]

A Marine recruit committed suicide in March amid a widespread culture of hazing and abuse in his battalion at Parris Island that could lead to punishments for as many as 20 officers and enlisted leaders, the Marine Corps said Thursday. Some of those 20 commanders and senior enlisted leaders have already been fired, including the […]