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The Billion Dollar Spy: The Man Who Gave the CIA Soviet Secrets
Operating inside Moscow during the Cold War presented extraordinary dangers for American intelligence officers and their Soviet sources. One of the C…
10 hours ago
4,000 Kilometers to Rescue: Inside Operation Entebbe
In 1976, more than 100 hostages sat thousands of miles from Israel at Uganda's Entebbe Airport, and Israeli planners had almost nothing working in th…
3 days, 13 hours ago
Operation Anthropoid: The Mission to Kill Reinhard Heydrich
December 1941, two Czechoslovak soldiers parachuted into their occupied homeland carrying an extraordinary assignment: assassinate one of Nazi German…
1 week ago
From Sensor to Weapon: The Small Drone Joins the Team
Imagery released September 17 showed Green Berets from 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne) at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, arming a small drone with an e…
1 week, 5 days ago
Guardians of the Gray Zone: The Coast Guard's New Special Missions Command
In May 2026, the U.S. Coast Guard stood up a new Special Missions Command, folding its elite units into one force built for counterterrorism, drug in…
2 weeks, 5 days ago
From Selection to the Unit: Bob Porras on a Career in Special Operations
Carlos sits down with Bob "The Ninja" Porras for a wide-ranging look back at a career spent in the world of Delta Force and "The Unit." The conversat…
1 month ago
The Death of Imad Mughniyeh: How a Car Bomb in Damascus Ended a 25-Year Manhunt
On February 12, 2008, Hezbollah's chief of international operations, Imad Mughniyeh, was killed by a car bomb in Damascus in an operation widely attr…
1 month, 1 week ago
Shadows & Networks: Operational Tradecraft in the Pursuit of Carlos the Jackal
This episode examines the covert tradecraft, safehouse networks, and state-sponsored safe havens that enabled Ilich Ramírez Sánchez to orchestrate hi…
2 months ago
Inside Threat: The Pensacola Base Assault Experience
We deconstruct the domestic base attack through the eyes of Navy Airman Ryan Blackwell, who stood directly in the line of fire during a catastrophic …
2 months, 2 weeks ago
The Black Wasps and the Art of Asymmetric Power: How Cuba Built a Covert Direct Action Force That Punches Far Above Its Weight Class
The Avispas Negras were never designed to compete with the resources of JSOC or the SAS — they were designed to make that comparison irrelevant, buil…
3 months ago