A former U.S. Army’s Special Forces officer has been arrested in Alexandria, VA, and charged with passing secrets of American military units and personnel to the Russian military intelligence arm (GRU) for over a decade. Peter Rafael Dzibinski Debbins, 45, was recruited by Russian intelligence operatives as he considered himself a “son of Russia,” according […]
ISIS militants conducted an attack on the Save the Children’s Jalalabad office on Wednesday morning. ISIS’ Afghan chapter, known as ISIS-K, has managed to hold onto territory and conduct a number of deadly attacks in Afghanistan despite large battlefield and territorial losses. ISIS-K benefits from Afghanistan’sAfghanistan’sAfghanistan’s rough terrain, a steady stream of recruits from neighboring […]
The US Military Is Investigating Images That Allegedly Show US Soldiers Targeted in Niger Ambush
I was watching the news this morning, as I typically do, when I heard a journalist talking about the U.S. military involvement in Yemen. In an offhand comment, the reporter described the extent of the United States’ involvement as providing refueling support to Saudi aircraft operating in the skies over Yemen. That was it. Immediately, […]
Over the years, many have lamented the end of Special Forces, foreseeing the destruction of the Green Berets, a slipping of training and selection standards, and plenty of general navel-gazing about how it “use to be.” Hell, I remember buying a copy of Soldier of Fortune magazine in the PX at Fort Bragg over a […]
[Editor’s Note: In the eight-year secret war fought by Green Berets during the Vietnam War across the fence in Laos, Cambodia and North Vietnam from 1964-1972 under the aegis of the Military Assistance Command Vietnam – Studies and Observations Group (SOG), no mission was more dangerous than a Bright Light Mission. Heavily-armed SOG recon teams were sent in to […]
A Special Forces instructor throws down the gauntlet, laying out the case against cronyism and careerism at the Qualification Course.
It was 2009 in Iraq when one of my teammates decided to initiate an impromptu combatives match with half of a SEAL platoon, never a great idea under any circumstances. He was the senior Special Forces medic on our team and we had been doing some joint operations with a SEAL platoon in Mosul. Now […]
[Editor’s Note: In the eight-year secret war fought by Green Berets during the Vietnam War across the fence in Laos, Cambodia and North Vietnam from 1964-1972 under the aegis of the Military Assistance Command Vietnam – Studies and Observations Group (SOG), no mission was more dangerous than a Bright Light Mission. Heavily-armed SOG recon teams […]
The Chinook helicopters lifted off, and Richard Hunter’s mind was at ease. It was Nov. 2, 2016, and he was strapped into one of two mammoth CH-47’s flying over the city of Kunduz in northern Afghanistan on a moonless night. Loaded with 59 men in all — a company of Afghan commandos and a team of […]
Phil Melcher may never know about the total impact he has made throughout the world, but he got a glimpse of it through a chance meeting in Columbia several years ago. Melcher, an Army Green Beret, was serving in the South American country when he was woken up at 2 a.m. to deliver a baby. […]
When many Americans woke up one morning in October to discover that two US Special Forces soldiers and one support soldier were killed in an ambush in Niger, they were incredulous. Why are American troops in Niger? How is Niger important to the United States strategically? How could our highly trained Special Forces soldiers be […]
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