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Allied Special Forces Are Training Afghanistan's Elite 'SWAT-Like' Police
Combined Special Operations Task Force 10, part of ISAF Special Operations Forces (one of several Special Forces commands in Afghanistan) includes troops from Romania, Hungary and Slovakia -- among...
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The Military Is Finally Providing A Permanent Special Ops Team For AFRICOM
Ever since the Benghazi debacle, a chorus of voices has been howling about use of Special Forces, among other options, to stem the attack.The nearest group of operators though was in Croatia and had...
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How The Chuck Hagel Era Will Reshape America's Military
That America is heading toward a tighter fiscal belt is a foregone conclusion. The big question is what this will do to the military.A lot of that depends on Chuck Hagel, who, despite a testy...
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New Film 'Secret Wars' Tells A Story About The President's 'Paramilitary...
The film Secret Wars, which premiered at Sundance, can be viewed, as Amy Goodman sees it, as an important narrative of excesses in the global "war on terror". It is also a record of something scary for...
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The Most Elite Special Forces In The US
Ever since the Osama bin Laden raid, America has gone bonkers for U.S. Navy SEALs and Military Special Operators in general.Skip to the units >The Special Operations Command, or SOCOM, is scheduled...
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Here's Why The Military Invited A Sportswriter To Chat About 'Moneyball'
Sports writer Joe Posnaski was more than surprised when the Army invited him down to Fort Leavenworth to talk about "Moneyball" back in 2008.Like the cash-strapped baseball team in Michael Lewis'...
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Why Green Berets Are The Smartest, Most Lethal Fighters In The World
They call themselves the quiet professionals, but we know them as Green Berets. Their official title is U.S. Army Special Forces (SF), and they are one of the most elite fighting groups in the...
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South Korean Nuclear Sites Could Be Targeted For Devastating Sabotage
Russian analysts have recently expressed concern about the destruction of South Korean nuclear sites, through either covert sabotage or direct attack.North Korea is well known for a few military...
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GI JANE: Officials Look At Women Joining SEAL Teams, Special Forces
The most elite men in the U.S. military may eventually have women serving alongside them, as Special Operations Command — home to Navy SEALs, Army Special Forces, and Marine Reconnaissance — moves...
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New Documentary Says This US Soldier Is Alive In Vietnam 44 Years After Being...
The new documentary "Unclaimed" purports to introduce the world to former Army Sergeant John Robertson, lost over in Vietnam in 1968 and left behind for over four decades. The Toronto Star reports...
View ArticleCNN: Obama Ready To Unleash A Swarm Of Military Special Operators On Benghazi...
There's Al Qaeda in Benghazi, and U.S. Special Operations is going to ferret them out."The military has fresh plans to capture or kill perpetrators of the attack on the American compound in Benghazi...
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Russia's 'Zaslon' Military Operators Are So Shadowy They Make Ninjas Look...
There is quite a cult that has grown up around Russia’s Spetsnaz special forces, with books, movies and exposes both serious and farcical alike. Names such as Alpha and Vympel have become well known....
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4-Year-Old Boy Accidentally Shoots And Kills Army Special Forces Father
An Army Special Forces veteran who served in the Iraq War was accidentally shot and killed by his 4-year-old son in northern Arizona, police said.Justin Stanfield Thomas took his son to visit a friend...
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This Former Nirvana Rocker Became A Decorated Special Forces Soldier
A new piece in New York Times Magazine profiles Jason Everman, who played for legendary rock bands Nirvana and Soundgarden before enlisting in the U.S. Army in 1994.Everman was twice burnt. Nirvana...
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Can We Trust China To Make American Special Purpose Uniforms?
There’s an important under reported initiative called the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP). The TPP is an international free trade agreement currently being negotiated between the US, Canada, Mexico,...
View ArticleWatch This French Special Forces Helicopter On A Low Altitude Flight Over Mali
Enjoy the view from inside the cabin of a Cougar helicopter, sitting next to the gunner, on an extreme low altitude mission over Mali.Four Cougar helicopters along with three Tigre attack choppers of...
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Jeremy Scahill Tells Us How He Uncovered America's Massive, Global Dirty Wars
We recently got a chance to interview investigative journalist and best-selling author Jeremy Scahill about his film "Dirty Wars," which follows his book of the same name.While his book is the...
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The World's Special Forces Quietly Held Their 'Counterterrorism Olympics' At...
The world's most elite military special forces met up at a military compound in Jordan to compete in what organizers call "the Olympics of counterterrorism."Contributing editor to Rolling Stone...
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Air Force Airman Directs 7 Tons Of Bombs, Saves Green Beret, Earns Second...
Technical Sergeant Ismael Villegas was completely open to enemy fire, but it didn't make a difference, to him, there was only one objective in mind.It was early 2011, and the mission was only supposed...
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US Special Ops Get Their Own Set Of Ospreys In The UK
On Jul. 26, 352nd Special Operations Group welcomed the media and invited guests to RAF Mildenhall to learn about the capabilities and missions of two new aircraft types that have recently arrived in...
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