By Ajit Maan “Narratives are essential in mobilizing local actions to defeat violent extremists. Some leaders laugh nervously at this concept, and dismiss it with arrogant waves of the hand. Misperceptions about narrative and story as somehow being a squishy […]
SOF News Update 20181210 – Afghan SOF are busy, SEAL / Raider hearing in GB death postponed, learning from our enemies, 919th SOMSG CoC, Hollywood and military movies, UDT-SEAL museum, SOF ethics review, SOCEUR’s ‘Jackal Stone’ exercise, AFSOC’s bobsledders, G5 […]
Middle East ISIS in Iraq. Attacks by the Islamic State have increased significantly in Kirkuk and Salah ad-Dine provinces. Apparently there are some ‘security gaps’ between Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) and Peshmerga units in some areas of these two provinces. […]
SOF News Update 20181207 – SASC hearing for SOCOM nominee, job hunting for SF NCOs, ISIS in Iraq, ISIS in Syria, Yemen update, dirty bombs in SE Asia, radicalization in Central Asia, ‘remote warfare’, discontent grows in Chap, perils of […]
SOF News Update 20181205 – Maritime aspects of the Yemen conflict, IS in Iraq, contractor fraud at BAF, podcast on TJ18, US cyber strategy, a CIA historian, true origins of ISIS, botched IDF mission in Gaza, Iraq’s Islam, report on […]
SGT Jason McClary, age 24, died on Sunday, December 2, 2018 in Landstuhl, Germany, as a result of injuries sustained from an improvised explosive device on Tuesday, November 27, 2018, in Andar district, Ghazni province, Afghanistan. McClary was assigned to […]
SOF News Update 20181203 – Airpower stats for AFCENT, SECDEF gaggle, Australian cyber warfare, video on history of the Pentagon, A-29s for Nigeria, review of Jack Ryan, giving back to the Ranger community, Iran rockets Taliban, lone wolf terrorism, Chinooks for […]
Below can be found a series of recent articles, reports, and publications providing news, analysis, and commentary about the Afghanistan conflict. The past few months have seen the Taliban gaining the initiative on the battlefield. Several district centers have been […]
SOF News Update 20181130 – 5 non-kinetic CT efforts, update on death of Ranger in Afghanistan, podcast – hunting OBL, analysis of national strategy for CT, Peace Stability Journal, books on COIN, Russia-Ukraine conflict, investigation of SOF team in Afghanistan, […]
Staff Sergeant Dylan Elchin, an Air Force Special Tactics Airman, was killed in Ghazni province, Afghanistan when his vehicle was hit with an improvised explosive device (IED) on November 27, 2018. He was attached to a U.S. Army Special Forces […]
Two members of 1st Battalion, 3rd Special Forces Group based at Fort Bragg, North Carolina died from an improvised explosive device (IED) blast while traveling along a road in Ghanzi province, Afghanistan on Tuesday, November 27, 2018. An Air Force Staff […]
Two members of 3rd Special Forces Group were killed in an improvised explosive device (IED) blast while traveling along a road in Ghanzi province, Afghanistan on Tuesday, November 27, 2018. Three other U.S. service members and a U.S. contractor were […]
SOF News Update 20181127 – Report on Salafi-Jihadist groups, trouble in Chechnya, Boko Haram, countering hybrid threats, Russia and the Baltic States, SWCS campus to grow, China’s spies, events, a pivot in Syria, terrorist activity map, lessons of Yemen conflict, paper […]
On Sunday, November 25th the Russian and Ukrainian navies engaged in a small skirmish in waters off the coast of Crimea in the vicinity of the Kerch Strait. The Russians announced a stoppage of commercial traffic through the Kirov Strait […]
Sergeant Leandro Jasso died on Saturday, November 24, 2018 in Helmand province, Afghanistan. He was killed as a result of wounds sustained from small arms fire while engaging enemy forces. Editorial Note: A subsequent Resolute Support news release dated November […]
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