US SOCOM

Last week, the US Special Operations Command (SOCOM) reported the death of an East Coast-based decorated US Navy SEAL from Massachusetts.

The war in Ukraine is of a highly fluid nature and is a hybrid sort of conflict mixing conventional and special operations forces on the same battlefield. There are some lessons there for SOCOM which they are surely paying attention to.

SOFREP gets into the details of the raid by Delta Force to take out the head of ISIS, Al-Qurayshi in Syria

President Biden confirms that ISIS leader al-Qurayshi was killed in a US Special Operations forces mission in Idlib, northwest Syria.

Retired Major General John K. Singlaub, a decorated special operations legend has passed away peacefully at 100.

Green Beret and Medal of Honor recipient Gary Beikirch passed away the day after Christmas after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 72. His heroic actions as a Special Forces Medic in an isolated village of Montagnards in Vietnam are the stuff of legends. Badly wounded himself and unable to stand or walk, he had himself carried to various casualties in order to treat their wounds.

Mike Wimmer is not your ordinary 13-year-old boy. Let’s have a look into what he’s achieved at such a young age.

Award-winning author Toby Harnden has written a riveting account of the very first days of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan that followed the September 11th Attacks in 2001. Harnden’s book, “First Casualty: The Untold Story of the CIA to Avenge 9/11,” relies extensively on personal interviews with the particpants of these early battles to overthrow Taliban control of Afghanistan.

“The violent extremism that attacked us on 9/11 is still there. We can never forget that,” Clarke said.

During my time in the Navy SEALs I saw examples of very good and very bad leadership. When it was good, it was life-changing. Bad? Watch out.

Looking back may be the way forward for ARSOF, according to a recent RAND report.

A lack of sleep significantly affects operational performance and health. Now SOCOM is trying to put an end to it.