Special Forces

Twelve men, no script, and a mission set that swings from training guerrillas in the mountains to calming down armed allies in a cramped room at midnight—this is the quiet, decentralized grind where Special Forces actually earns its keep.

They drove us into oxygen debt until the pool felt like a grave, and when one man actually died and came back, the only question waiting for him at the surface was whether he was tough enough to climb back in.

Ammo was life in Prairie Fire, because when the NVA hit hard and the sky went quiet for hours, the only thing standing between ST Idaho and getting overrun was what we could carry, shoot, and keep running in the dark.

Lt. Gen. Joshua Rudd’s decades of Special Forces experience and Indo-Pacific operations could soon shape the nation’s most sensitive cyber missions at NSA and U.S. Cyber Command.

Austria’s Jagdkommando is an elite special forces unit shaped by brutal selection, alpine warfare, global deployments, and a Never Retreat ethos.

He proved the warrior-poet is real when he turned a punji-stick tourniquet and a Green Beret tab into a chart-topping hymn, then proved the other half of the equation when the discipline slipped, the hearth went cold, and the same fire that made art started taking bodies.

In the heat of action, our careful plans often collide with the unpredictable, reminding us that control is just an illusion.

Read the entertaining account of a former Delta Force member describing the interaction between the two elite units.

Amidst the chaos and carnage, I couldn’t help but marvel at the sheer audacity of these men—pilots who crawled from the wreckage, dusted themselves off, and pressed forward as if crashing a helicopter was just another Tuesday.

The roots of special operations forces can be traced back to the strategic challenges of World War II.

Essential Provisions Field Fuel is the only ready to eat meal I trust to keep me sharp and moving when the shift runs long and the terrain gets ugly.

The ghosts in McGarvey’s weren’t haunting the bar—they were teaching the living how to remember without breaking.