CENTCOM

The head of U.S. Central Command said Thursday that a recent trove of captured intelligence out of Syria is providing a “deeper” insight into the Islamic State’s war machine. “I think it is extraordinarily important. … It is beginning to provide us deeper understanding of certainly their tactics and techniques,” Gen. Joseph Votel, commander of […]

The first SOF Truth focuses on the critical relevance of people and relationships, no one knows this better than the global SOF community and therefore took full advantage of this year’s opportunity to solidify their alliances with one another.

U.S. troops will partner with Jordanian military forces May 15-24 in Jordan during Exercise Eager Lion 16, one of U.S. Central Command’s premier exercises, Centcom officials announced today. Eager Lion 16 will consist of a week-long series of simulated scenarios to facilitate a coordinated partnered military response to conventional and unconventional threats, officials said. The exercise […]

Editor’s Note: We’ve already seen Israel balking at the idea of F-15s being sold to Qatar, but General Lloyd Austin, chief of United States Central Command, is in favor of both Boeing and Lockheed-Martin selling their latest variants of fourth-generation aircraft to partner nations in the Persian Gulf region. Complicating matters are the Iranian nuclear […]

Thousands of Islamic State fighters and 160 of its leaders were killed in U.S. and allied military operations in Syria and Iraq over the past 18 months, the commander of the U.S. Central Command told Congress on Tuesday. But the Islamist terror group has expanded to several regional states as U.S. forces enter a new […]

(CNSNews.com) – Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said on Tuesday the United States is “aiming to accelerate” the anti-ISIS campaign “in every possible way.” And on Wednesday, Col. Steve Warren, a spokesman for the anti-ISIS campaign in Iraq, indicated that additional U.S. “forces” will be forthcoming. A reporter asked Warren about “potential force increases” for training, […]

Pragmatism often competes or even outweighs religious ideology for some members of Islamic extremist groups such as al-Shabaab, al-Qaida, and ISIS.

  WASHINGTON — The White House will nominate a veteran Special Operations commander to lead U.S. Central Command, underscoring the Obama administration’s affinity for using secretive elite military forces in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan. Senior officials this week approved Army Gen. Joseph Votel, who has headed U.S. Special Operations Command since Aug. 2014, as the […]

Two reasons I hate the trite expression “No boots on the ground.” One – American patriots are filling those boots. They sweat, bleed and die in those boots. Two – Special Operators’ boots are still at the places the political apparatus says they aren’t. Those in power draw a distinction by using no boots on […]

The nomination would mark the first time that a U.S. special operations officer has been chosen to head one of the nation’s primary combatant commands—among the top warfighting commands in the U.S. military—and marks a significant evolution in the power of the special operations community.

Reports are coming out revealing that the Pentagon may have cooked the books when it comes to the number of airstrikes undertaken against ISIS.  If someone in CENTCOM did that they have a pair of brass ones, but it is more likely that it was done under pressure from White House staffers.

On the night of Sept 22, the US air campaign against Daash expanded from northern Iraq to Syria.  Fourteen strikes, using a combination of ship-launched Tomahawk cruise missiles, B-1B bombers, F/A-18s, F-15s, F-16s, and drones, hit targets in Raqqa, Deir al Zour, Hassakeh, and the border town of Abu Kamal, as well as strikes on […]