Category: Special Operations

5G promises to revolutionize how we work and communicate, but it could have dire consequences for the public at home and troops in the field.

“You were either going to die or get shot all to hell,” Billy Waugh said. “Everyone in the outfit was wounded once, twice, three times.”

In a war of secrecy, spies, and destruction, Britain’s Special Operations Executive (SOE) was on the leading edge.

Foreign language capability provides the special operator with a comparative advantage. But now Congress fears this capability is atrophying.

“If you saw what you heard today in a movie, you would shake your head and say, ‘That didn’t happen.’ But it does, every day.”

The fighting spirit of Task Force Ranger’s commandos is still universally recognized decades after the famous mission.

The Malayan Emergency proved that a counterinsurgency operation (COIN) could succeed if approached cleverly and co-owned by the locals.

The Air Force Combat Controller controls the skies before, during, and after battle.

The looming great-power competition will require us to rethink how we counter and use propaganda.

While he was a more than capable Green Beret, Richard Flaherty — who was just 4 feet, 9 inches tall — had to fight just to join the Army.

I would choose the M240 machine gun every day of the week and twice on Sunday. It’s reliable, accurate, powerful, and easy to operate.

Elite and secret units, from the pioneering Rogers’s Rangers to the highly secretive Intelligence Support Activity, have shaped our nation’s history.