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Do you want to read the oldest classified documents in our collection? Learn how to make invisible ink? See the only classified documents still in existence from the first World War? Then you’re in luck. Five years ago, the CIA declassified the US Government’s six oldest classified documents, dating from 1917 and 1918. These documents, […]
US Special Forces deals with unconventional warfare, but sometimes they’re called on for direct-action missions. Here’s how they train for it.
Blue Light left a powerful legacy for today’s special operations soldiers, and gave America the beginnings of a very robust counterterrorism capability.
Imagine American Special Forces soldiers traveling around Baghdad in civilian vehicles, speaking the local language, carrying false passports, and operating under a cover as they case targets and dodge foreign intelligence agents. Today, such a thing is an impossibility, a much sought after capability that Special Forces has been unable to attain in recent years. […]
Several books have been published stating that Blue Light was never invited to try out for Delta Force and none of them ever served in Delta. Both claims are false.
Mao Tse-Tung famously wrote in On Guerrilla Warfare that guerrillas are proverbial fish who have to swim in the water of the people in order to win their struggle against powerful governments. “It is only undisciplined troops who make the people their enemies and who, like the fish out of its native element, cannot live,” Mao explained. […]
The Blue Light members had to storm the building and engage in target discrimination as they fired on the enemy silhouettes.
Dick Marcinko, the founder of SEAL Team 6 and author of “Rogue Warrior,” sat down with Brandon Webb for a one-on-one interview.
Colonel Mountel clearly wanted Jakovenko on Blue Light, so when Jakovenko demanded his entire ODA be allowed to come with him, his request was granted.
You hardly have time to think about sharks when you are in BUD/S training, since you are usually more worried about passing a swim or dive evolution.
Blue Light had begun their training as an interim counterterrorism unit while Charlie Beckwith took his 18 to 24 months to stand up Delta Force.
Blue Light secured the Army’s entire stockpile of match-grade ammunition that year, which upset the Army Marksmanship Unit to no end.
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