SOF Spotlight: British Special Reconnaissance Regiment
Since 2005, the UK’s SRR has excelled in global intel and covert ops, reinforcing its crucial role in national and international security.
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Prison riot? Send in the SAS
Who said the SAS feed only on enemy sentries and terrorists?
British Email Publicly Mentions Secretive Special Ops Unit E Squadron
The blunder could be a potential disaster for operational security, burning commandos and sidelining them from future operations abroad.
Borderline Illegal: The Story Behind the UK’s Most Secretive SOF Unit
The secretive SOF unit’s arsenal contained every weapon imaginable. But the unit was too irregular and unmanageable.
Breaking down the British elite forces: The Royal Marine Commandos (RM)
In a recent series, we examined the United Kingdom Special Forces (UKSF) spectrum. In this series, we’ll review the elite components within the conventional British forces. We will start with one of the U.K.’s most renowned units: the Royal Marines, an elite amphibious commando force of the Royal Navy. The Royal Marines (RM), or Bootnecks […]
Did a fitness app expose the identities of SAS operators?
A fitness app might have been responsible for exposing the identities of numerous British Special Air Service (SAS) operators. According to Nick Waters, a former British Army officer and open source analyst with Bellingcat, the fitness app Strava can be manipulated into revealing the identities of Special Operations personnel. Waters identified the security lapse during […]
The IRA plotted to bomb a ferry full of people on Brexit night
An offshoot of the infamous Irish Republican Army (IRA) plotted to blow up a ferry full of people on Brexit night. The Continuity IRA (CIRA) admitted that it had loaded a bomb on a lorry and was intending to put the vehicle on a ferry that was bound for Scotland the night that the United […]
UK Special Forces breakdown: The Special Air Service (SAS)
Note: This is part five of a multi-part series exploring the various units within the U.K. Special Forces (UKSF). The Special Air Service (SAS) is the British Army’s most distinguished and renowned special forces unit. From the moment operators of the 22 SAS emerged on the balconies of the Iranian embassy in London in 1980, […]
UK Special Forces breakdown: The Special Reconnaissance Regiment (SRR)
Note: This is part two of a multi-part series exploring the various units within the U.K. Special Forces (UKSF). The United Kingdom’s prolonged involvement in the Global War on Terror (GWOT) has created the demand for an increase in the country’s number of special forces operators. From that need emerged the United Kingdom’s newest special […]
Legendary SAS operator passes away
A legendary Special Air Service (SAS) operator and assault team leader during the famous Iranian Embassy hostage rescue has passed away. Command Sergeant Major Tom MacDonald died at the age of 71 in New Zealand where he had retired to. The SAS operator had a long and illustrious career in the British Army. He first […]
UK Special Forces breakdown: 18 (UKSF) Signals Regiment
This is the first part of a multi-part series exploring the various units within the U.K. Special Forces (UKSF). The Special Air Service (SAS) is widely recognized the world over and is often erroneously considered the only special operations unit Britain has. This couldn’t be further from the truth. In this series, we’ll cover the […]
Royal Marines Paras? British military considers controversial merger of 2 elite units
The British Ministry of Defence (MoD) is toying with the controversial idea of merging the elite Parachute Regiment and Royal Marines. This isn’t the first time that a merger between the two elite units has been voiced by senior officials inside the British Ministry of Defence (MoD). Last year, similar reports had been leaked to […]
