Curated news, analysis, and commentary on special operations, national defense, and conflicts from around the world. SOF News Women in SOF. Emma Moore, a Research Associate at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) wrote a paper entitled “Women […]
Curated news, analysis, and commentary on special operations, national security, and conflicts around the world. SOF News SF Training Continues Despite COVID-19. The roughly 2,500 students in the Army’s special operations pipelines is not stopping for coronavirus. The SF, CA, […]
Curated news, analysis, and commentary about special operations, national security, and conflicts around the world. SOF News New SOCEUR SEL. Navy Command Master Chief Peter Musselman has been selected to be the command senior enlisted leader for Special Operations Command […]
The Joint Special Operations University (JSOU) has released a new publication entitled Re-Evaluating Special Operations Forces-Led Counterterrorism Efforts. The 20-page report by Barnett S. Koven ” . . . posits that kinetic counterterrorism (CT) actions undertaken by the state to […]
Curated news, analysis, and commentary about special operations, national security, and conflicts from around the world. Coronavirus and the Military Lots of stories about how the military is reacting to the Wuhan virus. Below are a couple of stories about […]
Head Shots or Body Shots? This is a Question that Should Defend Influence Strategy, Not Lead It. By Ajit Maan. In an insightful recent article “Counterterrorism Targeting – Head Shots or Body Shots?” Thomas G. Pledger advocates augmenting the kill/capture […]
Curated news about special operations, national security, and conflicts from around the world. SOF and Coronavirus There are thousands of articles posted online each day about coronavirus. About 40 of these are about what the military is doing or not […]
In 2014 the Resistance Operating Concept (ROC) began its early stages of development. The Special Operations Command Europe (SOCEUR), commanded by Major General (MG) Mike Repass, began this academic effort. Subsequent SOCEUR commanders and their staffs along with other members […]
By Thomas G. Pledger. Current United States counterterrorism strategy concentrates on retribution over network targeting. These different lines of effort, retribution and network targeting, compete for limited resources on an ever-expanding battlefield. Not only do these lines of effort compete […]
Curated news, analysis, and commentary about special operations, national security, and conflicts from around the world. Top Story – COVID-19 . . . of course Update on Italy by SF Officer (Ret). A former Special Forces officer living in Rome, […]
News, analysis, and commentary about America’s longest war. Topics include U.S. withdrawal, peace negotiations, election, security, governance, development, and more. The U.S. is trying to extricate itself from the longest conflict in its history. But the path to the exit […]
Curated news, analysis, and commentary about special operations, national security, and conflicts from around the world. SOF News Army SOF Officer Assignments. MG Jonathan Braga, currently commander of SOCPAC, will be deputy commanding general for U.S. Army Pacific. MG Tony […]
Several European nations are contributing special operations forces to Task Force Takuba to fight armed groups in the Sahel. The special operations task force will fight in the Liptako region alongside troops from Niger and Mali. Most of the attacks […]
On March 23, 2020 the United States Marine Corps published its Force Design 2030. The 15-page document provides a roadmap ahead for the Marine Corps with major changes to mission and organization. Naturally, a document of this importance will be […]
The 5th Special Forces Group had a team racing in the Mint 400 – an annual off-road desert race that took place in Las Vegas, Nevada in early March 2020. The Mint 400 is one of the oldest and prestigious […]
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