With the prospect of grand scale nation-building projects like Afghanistan and Iraq unlikely in the near future, Secretary of Defense …

Shortly before The Year in Special Operations: 2010-2011 Edition went to press, the U.S. Naval Special Warfare (NSW) community was …

It started decades ago when a few members of the Fraternal Order of the UDT-SEAL, predecessor to the UDT-SEAL Association, …

Like other years of this first decade of the 21st century, 2009 was a busy one for the “quiet professionals” …

The 45 years between America’s entry into World War II and the signing into law of the Goldwater-Nichols Department of …

High over Nazi-occupied France, an all-black B-24 Liberator plowed through the night. Homing on a beacon from Resistance fighters on …

The Bucklew Report, as it became known, put into words what many American advisors, commanders, and officials believed was happening …

Now four years since stand-up, nearly all of which has been in combat, the Marine Corps Forces Special Operations Command …

The community of U.S. special operations forces (SOF) is a small one by military standards, comprising only about 54,000 military …

“If history is any teacher, it teaches that when you get indifferent and you lose the will to fight, some …