FORMOZA: Meet Poland's Most Elite Group Of Naval Special Operators
I would like to start off this new series of articles on Europe’s Finest SOF Units that usually escape the limelight – but whose responsibilities, actions and sacrifice are not inferior to those of the...
View ArticlePhoto May Show Training With Polish And US Military Special Forces
The military rumor mill is cranking today about the possibility of super secret training between U.S. special forces operators and their Polish counterparts. Special Forces guru, former Army Special...
View ArticleWhy Qassem Suleimani Is The Most Powerful Operative In The Middle East
He's a father of five with back pain. He "respects" his wife, and takes her on trips. Though he can't seem to control his daughter — she has been "deviating from the ways of Islam" and fled to Malaysia...
View ArticleA British Royal Marine Veteran Reportedly Saved More Than 100 Lives In Kenyan...
After the terror and tremendous loss of life during a terror attack at a shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya, have ended, the first heroic tales from the ordeal have begun to emerge.Distinguished among...
View ArticleSnowden Leaks To Reveal NSA's 'Central Role In The US Assassination Program'
Over the weekend, investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill told an audience in Brazil that he and Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald are working on a project involving "how the National Security Agency...
View ArticleNever Before Seen Video Shows 'Catastrophic Impact' Of Blackhawk Down Helicopter
It's been 20 years since the battle in Mogadishu, Somalia, which ended with 18 dead American soldiers, several thousand dead Somalians, and, as we all know, a downed Blackhawk helicopter.The storied...
View ArticleBoy Sends Question About Ninjas To Head Of US Joint Special Ops, Gets A Response
Is a Navy SEAL quieter than a ninja?Six-year-old Walker Greentree is a kid in a military family who was determined to find out, so he wrote to Admiral William McRaven.McRaven is head of U.S. Special...
View ArticleSnowden's Father: My Son Has More Secrets To Share
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The father of Edward Snowden said on Wednesday that the former U.S. spy agency contractor has more secrets to share and should stay in Russia "to make sure the true story is...
View ArticleThe White House Reportedly Passed On The Chance To Nab A Benghazi Terror...
Earlier this month, U.S. Special Operations commandos had a crazy weekend, nabbing a terror suspect in Tripoli and missing their guy on a daring sea shore raid in Somalia within the span of a few...
View ArticleThe Disturbing Details Behind US Special Forces And 10 Dead Afghan Villagers
In the fall of 2012, a team of American Special Forces arrived in Nerkh, a district of Wardak province, Afghanistan, which lies just west of Kabul and straddles a vital highway. The members installed...
View ArticleBrutal Video Of Detainee Torture Emerges From Afghanistan War Crimes...
Along with a pretty epic piece of investigative journalism about potential war crimes, Matthiue Aikins of Rolling Stone posted a brutal video of alleged detainee torture.In it, a few men from the...
View ArticleOne Special Forces Team May Undo All Of America's Progress In Afghanistan
The amount of progress made in Afghanistan after 13 years of war is still up for debate.(Certainly the reports out of the Special Inspector General of Afghanistan Reconstruction have only gotten more...
View ArticleTired SWAT Police Give Up On Battering Ram, Just Ask To Be Let In [VIDEO]
These poor guys are allegedly from Turkey's Special Operations Police — really just SWAT — and they can't seem to get through this door.In the end, as the post on Liveleak says, they simply beckon...
View ArticleThe US Is Sending 150 Special Forces Troops To Find Ugandan Warlord Joseph Kony
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration is sending about 150 Special Forces troops along with military aircraft to Uganda to help in the search for warlord Joseph Kony, the Washington Post...
View ArticleRussia Has Perfected The Art Of Provocation
One of the most powerful tools the Kremlin has in its secret arsenal of Special War is provocation, what they call provokatsiya.While Moscow cannot claim to have invented this technique, which has...
View ArticleWhy Russia's Military Intelligence Agency Has A 'Batman' Logo
Are Russian special forces soldiers operating in eastern Ukraine?The Ukrainian government says yes and it's offered some photos as proof.One photo, purportedly taken during Russia's 2008 invasion of...
View ArticleWhy The US Hasn't Sent Special Forces To Rescue The Nigerian Girls
Offers of US military assistance are 'politically dicey' for Nigeria, experts say, and intelligence suggests the schoolgirls have been split up, making their rescue complicated even for Special...
View ArticleA U.S. Special Forces Unit Is Deploying To Nigeria, But Not To Look For The...
U.S. Special Forces troops are headed to Nigeria, but not to join in the hunt for the kidnapped schoolgirls who were offered as bargaining chips Monday by their Boko Haram captors."They will have no...
View ArticleThere's No Easy Military Fix For The Boko Haram Kidnapping Crisis
The U.S. military is in "the golden age of Special Operations.” As the war in Afghanistan progressed, Special Operations Forces (SOF) undertook an increasing share of combat, as the U.S.’s...
View ArticleHere's How Delta Force Can Snatch Someone Off The Street And Disappear In...
The Washington Post has obtained and published a video of the U.S. special operations mission to capture al-Qaeda terrorism suspect Nazih Abdul-Hamed al-Ruqai (aka Anas al-Libi). Adam Goldman reports...
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