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 […]
U.S. Africa Command has announced the formation of Joint Task Force Quartz to oversee Operation Octave Quartz – a mission designated to reposition forces from Somalia and continue the assistance effort in Somalia. In early December President Trump and the […]
The last several years the term Irregular Warfare (IW) has gained increased prominence within the national defense community. It has become a buzzword meaning different things to a variety of people and organizations. Irregular warfare consists of unconventional warfare (UW), […]
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 […]
COL Keith Nightingale (Ret) is the author of Phoenix Rising: From the Ashes of Desert One to the Rebirth of U.S. Special Operations. The book, published in 2020 by Casemate Publishers, provides a detailed look at Operation EAGLE CLAW. This […]
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 […]
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