Malayan Emergency: The Birth of the Modern Special Air Service
The Malayan Emergency proved that a counterinsurgency operation (COIN) could succeed if approached cleverly and co-owned by the locals.
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The Malayan Emergency proved that a counterinsurgency operation (COIN) could succeed if approached cleverly and co-owned by the locals.
The looming great-power competition will require us to rethink how we counter and use propaganda.
Putin hinted that a Sino-Russian military alliance is possible. “We don’t need it, but, theoretically, it’s quite possible to imagine it.”
You could easily make a list of amazing facts about the SR-71, but here are three facts about it that even a few aviation nerds may not know.
China appears to be building hundreds of new silos to house intercontinental ballistic missiles, raising some questions about its intentions.
What the British would call, “a trot through the leaves.”
China held talks with Taliban leaders to discuss forging a closer relationship. This can only prove to be detrimental to the United States.
As great-power competition heats up, Naval Special Warfare is looking for ways to remain relevant after two decades of counterterrorism operations.
The Chinese air force is developing Xian H-20 its new stealth bomber. What could this mean for the United States?
Africa will be a major theater of great-power competition and U.S. special operators will have a pivotal role to play in swinging the balance.
A 2018 combined exercise, which flew under many people’s radars, showed how the West could achieve supremacy in the waters near China.
Since the outbreak of COVID-19, there have been questions about whether the virus originated in the Wuhan Virology Institute in China rather than a “wet market” where the meat of animals like the horseshoe bat is sold to consumers. Not only were these questions not answered but anyone asking them was scorned, ridiculed, and even […]