October 2026 SOF Events
Looking for upcoming Special Operations community events this October? Here are notable SOF events happening across the community, including nonprofit fundraisers, networking events, and industry gatherings.
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SOF Weekly Brief – Sep 14, 2026
This week’s SOF Weekly Brief covers Arctic special operations, Army Civil Affairs changes, emerging drone capabilities, Russian information warfare, and escalating conflicts involving Iran, Yemen, and Ukraine. Additional reporting examines strategic oil chokepoints, intelligence restructuring, veterans’ programs, military publications, and forthcoming special operations community events.
Free Fall School Trains Students in High-Altitude Infiltration
The Military Free Fall School (MFFS), located at the U.S. Army’s Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona, is an elite joint-forces institution operated by the U.S. Army John F.Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School. The school trains special operations forces in critical infiltration skills, including high-altitude low-opening (HALO) and high-altitude high-opening (HAHO) parachuting.
SOF Weekly Brief – Sep 8, 2026
This weekly brief examines major developments in special operations, irregular warfare, national security, and global conflicts, including SOF education and sustainment, Turkish counter-piracy operations, Army leadership changes, renewed U.S.-Iran fighting, Russian jet-powered drones, emerging technologies, and Kurdish reconciliation efforts.
U.S., Canadian Special Forces Soldiers Receive 2026 Frederick Award
A soldier from 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne) and the Canadian Special Forces Regiment received the First Special Service Force Association 2026 Frederick Award on August 22, 2026 in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada at the FSSF Association annual reunion.
Monthly Drone Report – August 2026
This monthly report examines major drone developments from August 2026, including JIATF-401’s counter-UAS efforts, Army directed-energy defenses, Ukraine’s horizontal kill-web architecture, expanding Russian capabilities, drone warfare in Myanmar, and new systems designed to detect and defeat small unmanned aircraft threats.
SOF Weekly Brief – August 31, 2026
This week’s SOF News brief covers U.S. Special Forces in Ecuador, multinational training developments, special operations technology, and recognition for the Indiana Rangers. Additional coverage examines Iran and Ukraine, CIA engagement with Russia, China’s regional ambitions, Afghan allies, veterans’ issues, and selected books, podcasts, and videos on national security affairs.
Encouraging the UK Special Forces Mindset
Designing progressive training that stretches cadets beyond routine parade-ground and classroom work could encourage them to look towards a UK Special Forces career.
352d SOW and Northern Viking 26
Air Commandos from the 352d Special Operations Wing participated in Exercise Northern Viking 2026 (Iceland), a premier multinational training event designed to bolster defense capabilities in the strategically vital High North.
Conference Report – Critical Minerals and Strategic Competition
The Irregular Warfare Initiative (IWI) and the Special Operations Association of America (SOAA) hosted a two-day conference on critical minerals. The gathering was focused on the role of critical minerals and rare earth elements in strategic competition. As demand for […]
SOF Weekly Brief – August 24, 2026
This weekly brief examines significant developments affecting special operations, irregular warfare, intelligence, and national security. Key topics include the expanding military applications of autonomous systems and artificial intelligence, proposed changes to U.S. aircraft carriers, rising American casualties in the Iran War, leadership developments in Ukraine, and lessons emerging from modern conflicts.
Operation Halyard – OSS Mission to Rescue Downed Airmen
In the summer of 1944, during World War II, hundreds of Allied airmen were stranded behind enemy lines in German-occupied Yugoslavia. The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and Yugoslavian resistance forces conducted Operation Halyard to evacuate the downed airmen to safety.
SOF Weekly Brief – August 18, 2026
This week’s SOF News Update examines new USASOC leadership, expanded American special operations activity in the Philippines and Alaska, Iran-war MQ-9 losses, shifting security relationships with Oman and South Korea, the Saudi-Turkish-Pakistani defense pact, Ukraine’s battlefield innovation, irregular warfare, intelligence, veterans, history, and upcoming events.
September 2026 SOF Events
Looking for upcoming Special Operations community events this September? Here are notable SOF events happening across the community, including nonprofit fundraisers, networking events, and industry gatherings
West Point Internship at SOCCENT’s Task Force 179
A West Point cadet spent the summer in an internship with SOCCENT’s Task Force 179, an innovation element integrating technology into SOF training and operations.