Special Forces HALO Parachuting: Go Big or Go Home
As the GWOT expanded, Special Forces again got serious about what they needed to do to modernize their military free fall course.
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Too Hollywood to Believe: Delta’s Raid Against ISIS in Syria
The Delta Force raid that killed ISIS leader Abu Sayyaf sounded suspiciously like a Hollywood screenplay.
Chinese Hackers Prepare Battlespace for War with America
Is it really that big a deal if the Chinese stole lists of government employees? It is when the list is of Americans with top-secret security clearances.
OMEGA: Joint CIA-JSOC Hunter/Killer Teams
Omega Teams: the joint CIA and Joint Special Operations Command program with a capture/kill mission spanning the globe.
Obama’s Schizophrenic Foreign Policy & How The “End of Times” Theory Benefits the ISIS War Machine
In all fairness, Obama inherited a mess with Bush’s Iraq. However, his administration’s half-baked strategies since then have resulted in the region sinking into further chaos. When the President completed the US troop withdrawal in 2011, he left over a billion dollars worth of American weapons and equipment in the hands of Iraqi forces–many (also trained […]
Hersh on Bin Laden: The Anatomy of a Cover Up
Hersh’s recent work about the raid which killed Osama Bin Laden is the most thorough and accurate we have yet seen. Read why we think so.
How Technology is Changing the Future of Espionage
In 2003, the CIA abducted Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr off the streets of Milan. He was suspected of recruiting foreign jihadist fighters and then facilitating their way to Iraq. With Hassan shipped off to Egypt for interrogation, the operation at first appeared to be a success. What happened over the following months and years demonstrated how technology may be the […]
Flashback: Delta Force Founder Charlie Beckwith in Vietnam
We thought readers might appreciate this gem out of our archives. Prior to being the founder of the Army’s counter-terrorism unit, Delta Force, Colonel Beckwith was a officer in Project Delta (unrelated to the unit he later founded) in Vietnam.
TALOS: Special Operations Powered Armor, or Just Another Boondoggle?
The Tactical Assault Light Operator Suit (TALOS) is an attempt to deliver to the individual Special Operations soldier a powered suit which would essentially give him super-human strength, speed, render him bullet and blast proof, and include a suite of sensory equipment (such as thermals, night vision, ect) which would enhance his ability to identify, […]
Joint American and Yemeni Hostage Rescue Mission Saves Eight
A team of commandos from SEAL Team 6 and Yemeni counterterrorism undertook a daring nighttime hostage rescue in the Yemen’s Hadhramaut region. Here’s how they rescued eight hostages.
That Time We Almost Invaded Suriname
The following investigative analysis was derived from countless hours of ‘reverse engineering’ purposefully vague historical references hidden in the dark corners of Cold War historical materials.—Iassen What if I told you that in the mid-1980s, President Ronald Reagan ordered the U.S. Army and the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) to lead and plan a full-scale military […]
75th Ranger Regiment Soldiers Go Covert in Pakistan
With dramatis personae that include the CIA, Delta Force, DEVGRU, the Intelligence Support Activity, Pakistani Commandos, the Taliban, and spies from Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence Agency (ISI), this story has the makings of a future Brad Thor bestseller. The only difference is, this story happened over the course of an eight-month period for a very small […]
