Recent news, analysis, and commentary about the Afghan conflict: security, governance, development, Resolute Support, and the ANDSF. ANDSF ANDSF Losses. In a recent speech in front of an international audience – the World Economic Forum, in Davos, Switzerland – President […]
Recent news, analysis, and commentary on special operations, national security, and current conflicts. SOF News Ukraine SOF Participate in CbR XI. Ukrainian special operations forces participated – along with SOF from four other nations – in exercise Combined Resolve XI […]
Army National Guard’s Newest Unit The Army National Guard is in the process of establishing one of the Army’s six Security Force Assistance Brigades or SFABs. These new units are the brainchild of Army Chief of Staff General Mark Milley. […]
In December 19, 2018 President Trump surprised just about everyone when he announced that the U.S. would begin immediately withdrawing its 2,200 military personnel from northeastern Syria. This decision was apparently the result of a phone call with the Turkish […]
Recent news, analysis, and commentary on special operations, national security, and current conflicts. SOF News BUD/S Rock. A gift, in the form of a large boulder, from the students of Basic Underwater Demolition / SEAL (BUD/S) Class 250 sits in […]
Despite SOF aircrews having recently taken part in an actual SOF insertion onto a ship where SOF troops captured illegal immigrants holding the crew of a ship captive, UK Special Forces aircrew have just completed yet another major week-long SF […]
Military funeral honors were held for Staff Sergeant Dylan Elchin, an Airman assigned to the 26th Special Tactics Squadron, at Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia, on Thursday, January 24, 2019. Elchin was a Special Tactics Combat Controller who was killed in […]
Recent news, analysis, and commentary about special operations, national security, and current conflicts from around the world. SOF News McChrystal on Suleimani. The former commander of the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) Gen (Ret) Stan McChrystal writes about the head […]
SFC Joshua Beale, age 32, died on Tuesday, January 22, 2019, in Uruzgan Province, Afghanistan, while conducting combat operations. He was assigned to 3rd Special Forces Group (Airborne), Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Joshua Beale, succumbed to wounds sustained from small […]
Recent news, analysis, and commentary about special operations, national security, and current conflicts from around the world. SOF News Brazil’s Combat Diver’s Group. The Brazilian Navy has a unique unit that is adapted to respond to national and international naval […]
Resolute Support headquarters announced that a U.S. servicemember died in Afghanistan on Tuesday, January 22, 2019. A name has not been released. It is Department of Defense policy that the name of a servicemember killed in action is withheld until […]
“When I leave Afghanistan this time it will be my last time as a soldier…I would like to leave a country that is peaceful and unified. That is a tall order but that would be my hope.” General Scott Miller, […]
Recent news, analysis, and commentary about special operations, national defense, and conflicts around the world. International SOF News More on SAS Soldier and Keyan Hotel. A former member of the Special Air Service comments on the siege at the hotel […]
SGT Cameron Meddock, an Army Ranger assigned to the 75th Ranger Regiment died of wounds on Friday, January 17, 2019 in at a U.S. medical hospital in Landstuhl, Germany. He had sustained wounds from small arms fire during combat operations […]
The Department of Defense has identified three of the four Americans who died on Wednesday, January 16, 2019 in Manbji, Syria in a suicide bombing. The patrol was on an engagement patrol when the attack occurred. A suicide bomber detonated […]
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