by Angela Walter. A Special Forces mountain team assigned to 2nd Battalion, 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne) conducted their annual mountain requalification training in the wilderness of Colorado and Montana from October to December. U.S. Army Special Forces train extensively […]
Command Sergeant Major (Ret.) Bennie Adkins died on Friday, April 17, 2020 after being hospitalized with coronavirus. He was a career Special Forces NCO who served in the Vietnam conflict. He was also a Medal of Honor recipient. Adkins passed […]
The parachute riggers from across the Special Forces community are busy manufacturing face masks for the counter coronavirus effort. Part of a parachute riggers job is the maintenance and repair of parachutes using sewing machines. So the skills of the […]
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 […]
A publication has been released by the Joint Special Operations University (JSOU) about how special operations forces command and control evolved with the Village Stability Operations (VSO) program. The VSO program in Afghanistan provides a timely and relevant example of […]
Green Beret and Paratrooper medics from 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne) conducted training in April to prepare to support Evans Army Community Hospital and 4th Infantry Division during the Coronavirus pandemic, at Fort Carson, Colorado. Fort Carson declared a public […]
The Joint Special Operations University (JSOU) has published a new publication by Will Irwin that augments previous reports about ‘resistance’. This new monograph explores “. . . the variety of considerations facing decision makers, the approaches used in strategic- and […]
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 […]
The Joint Special Operations University (JSOU) has released a new publication entitled Re-Evaluating Special Operations Forces-Led Counterterrorism Efforts. The 20-page report by Barnett S. Koven ” . . . posits that kinetic counterterrorism (CT) actions undertaken by the state to […]
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 […]
Head Shots or Body Shots? This is a Question that Should Defend Influence Strategy, Not Lead It. By Ajit Maan. In an insightful recent article “Counterterrorism Targeting – Head Shots or Body Shots?” Thomas G. Pledger advocates augmenting the kill/capture […]
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 […]
In 2014 the Resistance Operating Concept (ROC) began its early stages of development. The Special Operations Command Europe (SOCEUR), commanded by Major General (MG) Mike Repass, began this academic effort. Subsequent SOCEUR commanders and their staffs along with other members […]
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