Special Operations

Morning Brief: Grey Bull’s Venezuela Exfil, Peru’s K2 Tank Buy, and Ukraine’s Security Service Alpha Caspian Strike

Grey Bull Rescue founder Bryan Stern exfiltrated Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado in a donor-backed operation that treated high risk like routine. Meanwhile, Peru is buying K2 tanks and K808 armored vehicles from South Korea, and Ukraine’s SBU Alpha is linked in open-source reporting to a long-range drone strike claim against Russia’s Filanovsky Caspian oil infrastructure.

The Operator’s Guide to Better Leadership

The difference between a team that thrives in misery and one that falls apart in comfort is almost never talent; it is the leader’s courage to listen, adapt, and put their people first.

The SECRET to Navy SEAL Training

Graduating from BUD/S demands nothing less than unyielding mental toughness and the refusal to quit, no matter how brutal the training gets.

Guns, Guts, and Glory on the Sơn Tây Raid

On a moonlit run into North Vietnam on November 21, 1970, Bull Simons and 56 Green Berets hit Son Tay with surgical violence, found the cells empty, and left the nearby Secondary School littered with bodies that looked a lot more like Chinese advisors than local NVA, a truth the official record preferred to bury.

Israel’s Sayeret Matkal

Sayeret Matkal is Israel’s most elite special operations unit. It has been setting special operations standards since its creation.