Since 9/11 the United States has significantly scaled up its counterterrorism (CT) activities in Africa. The U.S. has conducted unilateral CT operations as well as extensive training for African partner forces involved in the CT fight. Despite this long counterterrorism […]
The Special Operations / Low Intensity Conflict (SO/LIC) office within the Department of Defense provides civilian advocacy and oversight over the U.S. special operations community. However, there are some in the SOF community that feel the Assistant Secretary of Defense […]
SOF News Update. Curated news, analysis, and commentary on special operations, national defense, and conflicts. Coronavirus and DoD As everyone knows by now, the efforts to stop the coronavirus is dominating the news and life in general. On Friday, March […]
The Global SOF Foundation recently held its SOF Imperatives Forum in Washington, D.C. in February 2020 and released its annual SOF Imperatives Document. The SOF Imperatives Forum featured a number of discussions and presentations by members of the Senate and […]
The 54th Security Force Assistance Brigade (SFAB) was formally activated by the U.S. Army during an official ceremony at Fort Bragg, North Carolina on March 5, 2020. The establishment of the 54th SFAB has been in progress for over a […]
SOF News Update – Curated news, analysis, and commentary on special operations forces, national security, and conflicts from around the world. Top Story Casualties in Iraq. On Wednesday, March 11, 2020 a Coalition base in Taji, Iraq was hit with […]
The ability for the United States to reinforce NATO in Europe in the event of a conventional war with Russia will be the centerpiece of DEFENDER-Europe 20. This months-long exercise will take place from February to April this year. Editorial […]
Captain Moises Navas, a special operations officer assigned to the 2nd Marine Raider Battalion, was killed in Iraq on March 8, 2020. He died from wounds suffered while accompanying Iraqi Security Forces during a mission to eliminate an ISIS stronghold […]
Gunnery Sergeant Diego Pongo, a Marine Raider, was killed in action in Iraq on March 8, 2020 while conducting combat operations against the Islamic State. Another Marine Raider – Captain Moises Navas – was also killed. Four other U.S. service […]
Central Command released a statement saying that two U.S. service members were killed in action in Iraq on Sunday, March 8, 2020. “Two U.S. service members were killed by enemy forces while advising and accompanying Iraqi Security Forces during a […]
SOF News Update – Curated news, analysis, and commentary about special operations, national defense, and conflicts from around the world. Below you will find articles about SOF from the last few weeks. SOF News SOTF-OIR Linguist Arrested. A civilian Arabic […]
SOF News will be taking a short break. The editor is heading out on a short-term contract (several weeks). Back in late March. ***********
The US Military Freefall Association is a collective of freefall parachutists, jumpmasters, and military freefall instructors bound by their common training, experience, and passion for military parachuting. The association seeks to promote an understanding of military freefall and to maintain […]
Curated news, analysis, and commentary about the conflict in Afghanistan. Topics include security, ANDSF, Resolute Support, NATO, governance, elections, peace talks, development, and more. More U.S. Deaths. Two members of the U.S. Army Special Forces were killed on Saturday, February […]
The U.S. military occupied a base known as “K2” (Karshi-Khanabad Airbase) in southern Uzbekistan from 2001 to 2005. This was a former Soviet base where chemical weapons and hazardous materials were stored and hazardous waste buried. There is increasing evidence […]
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