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The Battle of Takur Ghar: When a Navy SEAL Mission Became a Fight for Survival
On March 4, 2002, a nighttime insertion into Afghanistan’s Shah-i-Kot Valley turned into one of the most desperate battles of the early war on terror…
10 hours ago
The Battle of Mirbat: When Nine SAS Soldiers Faced an Insurgent Army
On July 19, 1972, a small detachment of British Special Air Service soldiers and their Omani allies found themselves defending the coastal town of Mi…
1 day, 9 hours ago
Operation Red Wings: What Really Went Wrong in Afghanistan?
In June 2005, four Navy SEALs entered the mountains of Afghanistan’s Kunar Province on a reconnaissance mission targeting a Taliban-aligned insurgent…
2 days, 6 hours ago
Introducing Operators Eyes : Special Forces Tactics Meet Hollywood's Most Intense Scenes
What would an experienced Special Forces operator notice when watching the gunfights, ambushes, and tactical confrontations in Hollywood’s biggest mo…
6 days, 8 hours ago
Operation Dead City: How Special Forces Would Contain an Outbreak
When a pathogen turns an urban population into vectors of lethal contagion, military doctrine ceases to be about conventional engagement and shifts e…
6 days, 10 hours ago
Tier-One Architecture: Deciphering the Distinct Doctrines of CAG, Green Berets, and SEALs
Within the modern United States Special Operations Command architecture, civilian culture routinely blurs distinct elite units into a single monolith…
1 week ago
Introducing The Debrief: Seven Blood Samples new special forces fiction series
In 2009, six operators raided a compound in Afghanistan, and all six came home. Seventeen years later, a lab finds a seventh American blood sample at…
1 week, 1 day ago
Phantom Columns in the Green Hell: Orde Wingate’s Chindits and the Agony of Deep Penetration
In early 1943, Brigadier Orde Wingate led three thousand British, Gurkha, and Burmese soldiers deep into Japanese-occupied Burma to test an unproven …
1 week, 1 day ago
Seconds on Target: Digital Forensics in the Breach
When an assault force clears a compound, the most dangerous phase of the raid begins the moment the shooting stops. In modern asymmetric warfare, cap…
1 week, 2 days ago
Bravo Two Zero: Did the SAS Fight the Battle That Made Them Famous?
In 1991, eight British SAS soldiers entered Iraq on a secret mission that became one of the most celebrated survival stories in military history. The…
2 weeks ago