Category: Special Operations

Armed with amphibious rifles, Russian Spetsnaz turn the waterline into a kill zone instead of a transition point.

The CIA has revolutionized language learning. These methods can be your secret weapon to linguistic fluency.

Yaël Sion does not survive the apocalypse by hoping harder; she survives it the way a cutting tool survives steel, by biting down and refusing to let go.

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 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 next Army special operations fight will unfold in the shadows of a digital battlespace, where dispersed teams use drones, data, and deception to stay alive inside a peer adversary’s sensor net.

In 2025, Canada’s special operations command balanced Arctic sovereignty patrols and cold-weather training with a major Indo-Pacific deployment, while sustaining elite readiness through specialized units like JTF 2, CSOR, CJIRU, and dedicated special operations aviation.

When people ask if Navy SEALs fear sharks, I tell them the truth which is that during BUD/S you are too focused on surviving the next evolution to waste a thought on whatever might be circling beneath you.

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

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.

In the black churn of the Arabian Sea, a Pakistani smuggler’s greed met two American warriors’ courage—and the ocean, as always, took its due.

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