The continent of Africa continues to see war, conflict, and strife occur in many of its countries. The United States, with its pivot to the Pacific and attention to great power competition, is reducing its commitment to Africa. The biggest […]
News, analysis, and commentary about the war in Afghanistan. Topics include security, Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF), Resolute Support, peace negotiations, governance, development, podcasts, videos, and more. Each month SOF News does a roll up of the news, […]
Curated news, analysis, and commentary about special operations, national security, and conflicts around the world. Outgoing Acting SECDEF, tab or scroll, SEAL gets prison in GB slaying, SOCOM’s Mk17, some MACV-SOG and PSYOP history, Desert Storm (30 years ago), GPC, […]
Story by Stacy Vaughn, 445th Airlift Wing Public Affairs. At the 28th Intelligence Squadron, there’s a career field that has been making strides as the squadron continues to grow. That career field is Tactical Systems Operator (TSO) specialty of the […]
Curated news, analysis, and commentary about special operations, national security, and conflicts around the world. Robin Sage, Acting SECDEF remarks, MARSOC and success, Navy SEAL pleads guilty, AFSOC pilot training, SOF at the Capitol building, national security topics, great power […]
Story by Maxwell Daigle, 27th SOW, Dec 10, 2020. Snapped awake by the sound of belt-fed machine gun fire, then-Senior Airman Alaxey Germanovich, a combat controller assigned to the 26th Special Tactics Squadron, surveys the compound he had dozed off […]
The Iranian regime maintains a network of proxies including Lebanese Hezbollah, various Shiite militias in Iraq, the Houthis in Yemen, and foreign fighters in Syria. This paper by the Joint Special Operations University (JSOU) provides a look at the problem […]
Story by Sgt. 1st Class Chad Menegay. By most composite measures, the U.S. Army owns a reputation — worldwide and historically — as the best, most powerful, strategically responsive, highly-trained and technologically advanced of armies. There are some who join […]
Podcast – Proxies and American Strategy in Africa. The U.S. withdrawal from Somalia of 700 military personnel has put the U.S. military involvement in Africa back in the news. This podcast explores what US forces are doing when they’re deployed […]
Curated news, analysis, and commentary about special operations, national security, and conflicts around the world. SOF News SF Officer Looks Back on His Career. Tyler Mac, a Special Forces officer, shares his past with us – the good and the […]
CSM (R) Bennie Adkins, a Medal of Honor recipient, was buried at Arlington National Cemetery on December 14, 2020. Bennie Adkins died in April 2020 from complications with COVID-19 after a 23-day battle against the virus. The 5th Special Forces […]
Curated news, analysis, and commentary about special operations, national security, and conflicts around the world. In this article we catch up with some December 2020 news stories as well as cover news from the beginning of 2021. SOF News Memorial […]
News, analysis, and commentary about the war in Afghanistan from the past few months of 2020. Topics include security, ANDSF, Resolute Support, peace negotiations, governance, development, podcasts, videos, and more. Afghan News Summary The Taliban hold more territory than ever […]
Curated news, analysis, and commentary about special operations, national security, and conflicts around the world. The extremely small staff at SOF News (one editor and a group of occasional writers) took a long 4-month break from publishing. We are now […]
SOF News is taking several months off. This fall the editor has a couple of short-term contract assignments, two long-term writing projects to work on, a vacation, and a few other time-consuming commitments. He learned a long time ago that […]
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