The most elite special operations forces in the US
Ever since the Osama bin Laden raid, America has gone bonkers for US Navy SEALs and Military Special Operators in general.Putting 100 thousand troops and countless private support personnel on the...
View ArticleFormer Marine Raider explains how the travel ban endangers US special...
Last year, retired Army Gen. David Petraeus ominously predicted that the divisive anti-Muslim rhetoric during the presidential election would not fade and would make our country less safe. This warning...
View ArticleA Navy SEAL explains what to do if you're attacked by a dog
Former Navy SEAL Clint Emerson, author of 100 Deadly Skills: The SEAL Operative's Guide to Eluding Pursuers, Evading Capture, and Surviving Any Dangerous Situation, explains what to do if you're ever...
View ArticleA Navy SEAL explains why you should 'test your will' at least once a year
Former Navy SEAL Clint Emerson, author of 100 Deadly Skills: The SEAL Operative's Guide to Eluding Pursuers, Evading Capture, and Surviving Any Dangerous Situation, explains why it's so important to...
View ArticleFathers of 3 dead Green Berets are demanding answers from the White House
The fathers of the three American Green Berets killed in Jordan last year are calling on the White House to "take a hard look" at the alliance between the US and Jordan after seeing a surveillance...
View ArticleHere are the differences between the US's 2 most elite special ops units
SEAL Team 6, officially known as United States Naval Special Warfare Development Group (DEVGRU), and Delta Force, officially known as 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta (1st SFOD-D), are...
View ArticleThe 8 most elite special forces in the world
Elite special forces are some of the best-trained and most formidable units a country can boast.They go where other troops fear to tread, scoping out potential threats, taking out strategic targets,...
View ArticleNorth Korea reportedly formed special-operations forces 'for the first time'...
Amid ongoing tensions with the US, North Korea has created special-operations forces "for the first time," according to South Korea's Yonhap News Agency.Pyongyang announced the Korean People's Army...
View ArticleCould US F-35s and special operations stop a Russian invasion of the Baltics?
Could NATO, drones, F-35s and US Special Operations Forces deter further Russian aggression and potentially stop an invasion of the Baltics? That clearly seems to be part of the calculus motivating...
View ArticleThe US is facing a potential backlash for its growing role in Syrian conflict
With the Trump administration's decision to supply Syria's Kurdish fighters with heavier weapons, U.S. troops inside Syria are in the crossfire between Turkey, a powerful NATO ally, and the Kurdish...
View ArticleA former special forces sniper is taking up a new fight — protecting one of...
Damien Mander removes his hat to cover his nose, an act of instinct and ceremony that does little to temper the thick stench of death.The cloudless sky is empty of vultures on this scorching Mozambique...
View ArticleWhy Green Berets are the smartest, most lethal fighters in the world
Though the US Army celebrates its birthday as June 14, 1775, it didn't have the special operators with their distinctive green beret until much later.Army Special Forces got its start on June 19, 1952,...
View ArticleWatch this ex-Green Beret run through ISIS gunfire to save a little girl
A dramatic rescue of a little girl trapped by ISIS gunfire was captured Friday on video.David Eubank, a Special Forces soldier turned aid worker, was filmed as he ran out in the open amid ISIS sniper...
View ArticleThe US and South Korea are reportedly building a special ops team to take out...
Even though he's the supreme leader of his country, Kim Jong Un has reportedly been living like a hunted man out of fear that the US and South Korea are collaborating on a special forces team to take...
View ArticleA Navy SEAL explains what to do if you're attacked by a dog
Former Navy SEAL Clint Emerson, author of "100 Deadly Skills: The SEAL Operative's Guide to Eluding Pursuers, Evading Capture, and Surviving Any Dangerous Situation," explains what to do if you're ever...
View ArticleThis long-forgotten unit was the predecessor to Delta Force
The US Army’s highly secretive counterterrorist unit, 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment Delta, is without a doubt among the best counterterrorism units in the world.While Delta is extremely...
View ArticleMattis and US military leaders are trying to get rid of the worst parts of...
Defense Secretary James Mattis and other military leaders are looking for ways to reduce the training and administrative duties that many in the armed services view as a burden.The latest part of this...
View ArticleWe got a copy of the Silver Star award for Joshua Wheeler, the Delta Force...
The first American to die while fighting ISIS "fearlessly exposed himself" to heavy small arms fire during a raid on a militant prison complex in October 2015, according to the citation for his Silver...
View Article4 US Special Forces troops killed, 2 wounded in ambush in Niger
Four US Army Special Forces troops were killed and two were wounded while conducting a patrol with Nigerien troops in southwest Niger on Wednesday, The New York Times reported.The wounded Green Berets...
View ArticleNiger ambush and US deaths highlight the US's mission creep in Africa
NAIROBI/ABIDJAN, Oct 6 (Reuters) - U.S. special forces soldiers were training their Nigerien counterparts in the West African nation’s volatile southwest, a growing hot-bed of jihadist violence, when...
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