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The old adage “You fight like you train and train how you fight” is the golden rule for combat effectiveness. Science has its own version of this, the SAID principle – an acronym that stands for Specific Adaptation to Imposed Demands. In other words, your body ALWAYS gets better at EXACTLY what it does (and […]

Saja al-Dulaimi was married to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi as his second wife. In a short interview, she describes al-Baghdadi, who was a university professor, as a somewhat normal family man. Downplaying her role as his former wife or potential ISIS supporter.

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The U.S. and its partners in the coalition targeting Islamic State group militants in Iraq and Syria have conducted more than 11,000 airstrikes since the campaign began, and refueling tankers have been key to those missions. “We may not be the tip of the spear, but we are the ones that enable that global reach,” […]

One year ago, CIA Director John Brennan announced sweeping changes at Langley, promising to reorganize the spy service by instituting a slew of bureaucratic fixes to its management structure. Then on Thursday, the CIA acknowledged that it left explosive training material on a children’s school bus in northern Virginia. Director Brennan’s otherwise laudable reforms have missed the mark in […]

On an elegant dead-end block on the north side of Telegraph Hill is 225 Chestnut St., a swanky modernist building with panoramic bay views. It’s about the last place you would have expected to find a clandestine CIA program during the Cold War. Yet from 1955 to 1965, this building was the site of “Operation […]

Eric Greitens’s bid for governor of Missouri hinges on his experience as a Navy SEAL, which he has chronicled in three books and touts on his campaign website, where he is pictured wearing his combat uniform, holding a rifle. “In the SEALs we learned, ‘there is no prize for second place in a gun fight,’” he said recently […]

Inspired by his experiences in the military, Evan uses painting to capture the aspects of war often only seen by the operators on the ground.

A report by a Washington D.C. think tank warns of a dangerous future for U.S. ground troops in which they must defend themselves against swarms of flying attack drones, each packing the explosive power of an artillery shell.  The report, entitled “Uncertain Ground: Emerging Challenges in Land Warfare”, was published by the Center for New American […]

The US has been able to greatly improve its use of intelligence over the 600-day fight against ISIS, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff told Business Insider on Tuesday. “If you want to talk about lessons learned, I‘ll tell you, I’m probably relearning lessons over the last couple of years, and No. 1 is intelligence,” […]

The bar was expressly created with the operator in mind, particularly when they are in the field or downrange.

Nick Norris knows a thing or two about face paint. Norris, a native of Morgan Park, spent more than a decade wearing the stuff as a Navy SEAL. He deployed to southeast Asia, Iraq and Afghanistan before returning to the states to finish his military career by training others. His experience in the military led to the development […]