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We haven’t used the Airborne since Normandy. We don’t fight those kinds of wars anymore. Only Special Operations need to jump out of airplanes? What are you taking, crazy pills? Maybe just a smug keyboard commando who knows it all, and yet failed to serve. Perhaps an astroturfing puppet out to spread propaganda in the […]

In February 2015, the Bundeswehr (German military,)  began training the security forces of the Kurdistan Regional Government, the Peshmerga. A contingent of 150 German soldiers is stationed in northern Iraq to train the Peshmerga in the face of the threat of Daesh [ISIS/ISIL]. The Bundeswehr camp located in Erbil, the largest city in the Kurdish areas […]

I had a chance to sit down for an interview with Richard “Demo Dick” Marcinko for SOFREP when he was in town for our book club event in New York (photo gallery here) this month. It was great to get his candid take on why he joined the navy, UDT/SEAL training, combat in Vietnam, how SEAL […]

The previous record was held by Japan at only 366 MPH and without any rockets. The Air Force’s rocket sled crushes that record, at 633 MPH The sled could theoretically traverse the continental United States in about four hours. – With the flick of a spark the 846th Test Squadron’s magnetically levitated sled system or MagLev, broke a world […]

China has been on an espionage campaign in America and the west; targeting military secrets and technology. It appears that their success has ignited the air with suspicion in the PRC. With any luck, the Chinese will cripple themselves with paranoia and witch-hunts. – China recently held its first “National Security Education Day”. Materials were distributed […]

Mind the curb, brah! Watch a skillful three-point turn by US President Barack Obama’s armored limousine, nicknamed The Beast, during his visit to Downing Street, London. https://youtu.be/RO3CEcAN2uQ   Featured Media – BBC

In July 2011, Air Force Staff Sgt. August O’Neill, a pararescueman, was sent to rescue a group of Marines pinned down in Afghanistan when enemy insurgents opened fire on his team’s helicopter. A round bounced off the helicopter’s door, tearing through both of O’Neill’s lower legs and critically wounding his left, resulting in 20 surgeries […]

Living in Raqqa, these teenagers were on the ISIS’s “most wanted” list due to their continuous online campaign that peeled back the layers of the so called “perfect caliphate” and directly opposed ISIS’s propaganda. They became citizen journalists and exposed ISIS to the world for what they really are, frauds and evil men. The teenagers had no weapons […]

Iraqi forces regained control of the key city of Hit, while a “tough fight” remains in the Tigris River Valley, the spokesman for Operation Inherent Resolve said today. “Last week in the Euphrates River Valley, Iraqi security forces tore Hit from ISIL’s grasp and gave it back to the Iraqi people. Hit is liberated,” Army […]

The Peshmerga Dizha Tiror, (Counter Terrorism Group) was established through the guidance and training of Delta Force and the British SAS. The selection and training for Dizha Tiror, was based on the experience of Delta Force and the SAS, but was tailored to meet the unique the mission set of the Kurdish Counter Terrorism Group.   A […]

Check out what a day in the life of the Pararescuemen deployed to Diyarbakir Air Base, Turkey looks like here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDlHs4aAutQ Featured image courtesy of U.S. Air Force

The U.S. Navy Leap Frogs take you behind the scenes as they jump into the Notre Dame football stadium. Most of the team members will go back to the SEAL teams once their tour on the Leap Frog team is done. Image courtesy of the US Navy Leap Frogs