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The longest bridge ever built by Russia was recently bombed. Who did it, and how?

Imagine being part of Special Forces, Green Berets, or the SWCC. Then having Hollywood have their own versions of your training on TV, featuring a group of celebrities.

Ukrainian Special Forces Destroy a Key Bridge in the Donetsk region

SOF has been a subject of theories about whether the forces generate the so-called “fog of war” or it ultimately conducts “military statecraft.”

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.

In a seeming de-escalation of the security crisis along the Russian-Ukrainian border, Moscow has withdrawn ten-thousand of the estimated 110,000 troops it has positioned near the border. Moscow did this even as it reasserted its demand of a legal guarantee that Ukraine will never be admitted to NATO, that the U.S. cease selling arms to Ukraine and that it act as mediator in negotiations between Russia, Ukraine and European countries.

The U.S. military intercepted and shot down a small drone that was believed to be threatening a U.S. base in southern Syria Tuesday, just weeks after the same base was attacked by drones and rocket fire. It is believed to have been launched by Iranian proxy militias in the region.  Capt. Bill Urban, the spokesman […]

With just forty-four men dressed as American soldiers, SS Colonel Otto Skorzeny’s commando unit wreaked havoc and confusion behind U.S. lines in the opening days of the Battle of the Bulge that began on December 16th, 1944

SOFREP’s resident Football expert and Senior Editor Steve Balestrieri gives you the rundown on the 122nd Army-Navy football game.

How can the best-of-the-best in the U.S. Army be determined? And what does Brian have to do with it?

Do you think that your mother-in-law cooks a bad turkey? That’s because you haven’t been with the Green Berets in Bolivia!

The underground, conduct operations in areas that the guerrillas wouldn’t normally operate such as in areas under the control of the occupying power.