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How big is a SEAL team? How many Green Berets are there? We have answers. BY JOSHUA SKOVLUND The U.S. military’s special operations forces (SOF) are home to some of the most highly trained soldiers, sailors, Marines, and airmen in the world. They must undergo grueling

Dec. 5, 2023 Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict, Christopher P. Maier, delivered a keynote address at the semi-annual Irregular Warfare (IW) Forum. The event, co-hosted by the U.S. Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School and the National

A Concept for Proactive Campaigning Short of Traditional War by Eric Robinson, Timothy R. Heath, Gabrielle Tarini, Daniel Egel, Mace Moesner IV, Christian Curriden, Derek Grossman, Sale Lilly Researchers from RAND Corporation develop a new concept for strategic disruption by special operations forces, involving proactive campaigns to delay, degrade, or deny an adversary’s

BRIAN PETIT NOVEMBER 21, 2023 American special operations forces, 70,000 strong and drawn from four services (Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps), are engaged on a dizzying number of fronts. These forces are called on to counter Russia’s hot and cold wars in Europe, to bolster allied forces on

BRIAN PETIT, COMMENTARY NOVEMBER 8, 2023 The grinding Ukrainian military offensive during the summer of 2023 has been a frightful sight for undersized nations fashioning their own defensive strategies against Russia or China. Small nations invaded by numerically superior foes simply do not have the combat power

ByThomas R. Searle, Christopher Marsh, and Brian Petit ABSTRACTThis article provides ten surprising lessons for Special Operations Forces (SOF) from the first year-and-a-half of Russia’s criminal and ill-advised full-scale invasion of Ukraine. These lessons range from the tactical to the grand strategic, and collectively help

Special operators speak 80 languages across the military but often don’t sustain that skills, a new report says. BY PATTY NIEBERG | PUBLISHED NOV 1, 2023 US. Green Berets and elite Marine special operators are learning languages that aren’t always useful on deployments and missions abroad, a Government

In the aftermath of Iran-Grenada, several congressional leaders took the initiative to reorganize the Pentagon’s special operations forces, culminating in the creation of U.S. Special Operations Command in 1987. by Forrest L. Marion In mid-October 1983, a “sordid little Leninist dictatorship” on the Caribbean Island of

U.S. Special Operations Command is on the hunt for new non-line-of-sight targeting systems. Special Operations Command is on the hunt for new non-line-of-sight targeting systems to help commandos fight in cities. In a special notice posted on Sam.gov this week, SOCOM unveiled plans for feasibility studies and

SAN DIEGO, Oct. 14, 2023 – Last weekend’s Del Mar Country Club Golf Tournament and Dinner-Gala raised more than $1.4 million for the SOF (Special Operations Forces) Support Foundation. It was a star-studded affair that featured honored guests Vice Admiral, U.S. Navy SEAL Collin Green, Chief Warrant Officer Two (CW2) Nick Lavery and world champion