Curated news, analysis, and commentary on special operations, intelligence, irregular warfare, national defense, and global conflicts.

In 2025, American porn star Whitney Wright visited Afghanistan, where she posed for glamour shots with Taliban fighters, held an AK-47, and toured Band-e Amir National Park. She documented her travels ...

Treatment built to correct distorted thinking doesn’t have a way to tell the difference between guilt that’s wrong and guilt that’s right. A Ranger fires through a doorway and kills someone he never ...

Since replacing the ACFT on June 1, 2025, the Army Fitness Test has used five events worth up to 500 points altogether.

The last of this year’s UK Special Forces bi-annual “Exercise Chameleon” unfolded across late August and into September. It comprised a concentrated period of RAF tactical airlift, High-Altitude ...

This week’s SOF Weekly Brief examines the evolving role of Army special operations forces in large-scale combat operations and the activation of SPACEFOR-SOC, strengthening the integration of space ...

Image: “Battle of Harlem Heights” (c. 1860). Painted by Alonzo Chappel, engraved by J.C. Armytage. The patrol belonged to Knowlton’s Rangers, whose short, costly service ended 250 years ago this fall, ...

News reports are surfacing about killed and wounded personnel with a private military company (PMC), Vectus Global owned by Erik Prince (Wikipedia), who sources suspect were attacked by Rwandan forces ...

The United States entered Afghanistan in 2001 with overwhelming advantages in military capability, technology, and resources. By every conventional measure, the Taliban was badly outmatched. Yet ...

Homeland Security Today and Narrative Strategies hosted the first-ever Narrative Strategy Symposium on Wednesday, September 30, 2026, at Amentum in Arlington, Virginia. This gathering brought together ...

Curated news, analysis, and commentary on special operations, intelligence, irregular warfare, national defense, and global conflicts. Photo / Image: MARSOC Marine from Special Operations Task Force ...