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Curated news, analysis, and commentary about special operations, national security, and conflicts around the world. SOF News SF Icon Dies. Retired Major General Victor Hugo died on May 11, 2020. He was 88 years old. Hugo was a former Special […]

Curated news, analysis, and commentary about special operations, national security, and conflicts around the world. SOF News Recruiting for SOF. With less than 1 percent of young Americans willing and able to join the military there is not a big […]

Curated news, analysis, and commentary about special operations, national security, and conflicts around the world. SOF News SOF Officer Assignment. The current commander of the Special Operations Joint Task Force – Afghanistan (SOJTF-A) will soon be the commander of the […]

Curated news, analysis, and commentary about special operations, national security, and conflicts around the world. SOF News SEALs Attempt Rescue in Afghanistan. The U.S. is trying to determine the location and conduct a rescue of an American contractor held by […]

Curated news, analysis, and commentary about special operations, national security, and conflicts around the world. SOF News SOF Funding Cuts. U.S. Special Operations Command will see a little less money in the future. Some procurement accounts are being trimmed. Read […]

Curated news, analysis, and commentary about special operations, national security, and conflicts around the world. SOF News New Submersible for USSOCOM. A Dry Combat Submersible (DCS) featuring a new battery system as an energy source will be picked up by […]

Curated news, analysis, and commentary about special operations, national security, and conflicts around the world. SOF News ARSOF Officer Assignments. BG Allan Pepin has been selected as deputy to the commanding general for USASOC. He is replacing BG Thomas Drew. […]

Curated news, analysis, and commentary about special operations, national security, and conflicts around the world. SOF News ARSOF and Russian New Generation Warfare. Steve Ferenzi and Bryan Groves authored an informative article on Russian New Generation Warfare and the role […]

Curated news, analysis, and commentary on special operations, national defense, and conflicts from around the world. SOF News Women in SOF. Emma Moore, a Research Associate at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) wrote a paper entitled “Women […]

Curated news, analysis, and commentary on special operations, national security, and conflicts around the world. SOF News SF Training Continues Despite COVID-19. The roughly 2,500 students in the Army’s special operations pipelines is not stopping for coronavirus. The SF, CA, […]

Curated news, analysis, and commentary about special operations, national security, and conflicts around the world. SOF News New SOCEUR SEL. Navy Command Master Chief Peter Musselman has been selected to be the command senior enlisted leader for Special Operations Command […]

Curated news, analysis, and commentary about special operations, national security, and conflicts from around the world. Coronavirus and the Military Lots of stories about how the military is reacting to the Wuhan virus. Below are a couple of stories about […]

Curated news about special operations, national security, and conflicts from around the world. SOF and Coronavirus There are thousands of articles posted online each day about coronavirus. About 40 of these are about what the military is doing or not […]

Curated news, analysis, and commentary about special operations, national security, and conflicts from around the world. Top Story – COVID-19 . . . of course Update on Italy by SF Officer (Ret). A former Special Forces officer living in Rome, […]

Curated news, analysis, and commentary about special operations, national security, and conflicts from around the world. SOF News Army SOF Officer Assignments. MG Jonathan Braga, currently commander of SOCPAC, will be deputy commanding general for U.S. Army Pacific. MG Tony […]