Tag Archives: Special Operations

Niccolo Machiavelli

Special Operators Begin An Exchange Program

This is not your typical exchange program. Members of the Marine Corps Forces Special Operations Command will soon be embedded with operators from other branches Marine special operators are going to begin spending three-year tours with the Navy SEALs,  Green Berets, and pararescuemen.   The idea is by embedding MARSOC liaison officers with other operators,  we will [...]
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Patrick K. O'Donnell

The First SEALs

In the dramatic raid that resulted in the death of Osama bin Laden, the lines between intelligence and special operations were blurred. CIA operatives and U.S. Navy SEALs worked together to kill bin Laden and gather valuable intelligence on al-Qaida. This is far from the first time that special operatives and intelligence personnel have worked [...]
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Jack L. Treese, CWO US Army, Retired

Navy SEALs and Other Special Operations Forces

The public and most of the news media seem to be confused about just what units of our military are “Special Forces.” It seems the Navy SEALS, Army Rangers, Green Berets, and the infrequently mentioned Delta Force are all referred to as “Special Forces.” While all of these units are the elite of our military [...]
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Dan  Riehl

Tapped Out, Osama bin Laden Did The Christian Thing In The End

Evidently, Osama bin Laden was tapped out, or, to be more precise, double tapped out courtesy of SEAL Team Six as he exited his Abbottabad compound for the great beyond. After bursts of fire over 40 minutes, 22 people were killed or captured. One of the dead was Osama bin Laden, done in by a double [...]
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Jim Hanson

New Commander for Pipehitters Local #69

General Votel in the field JSOC, Joint Special Operations Command, is the guys who get out of the black helicopters and scarf up bad guys or sometimes simply ventilate them and allow them to return to room temperature. They are our pipehitters and have been running at an extremely high operations tempo since we began taking [...]
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Secure Freedom Radio

Lt. Col. Oliver North: American Heroes in Special Operations

Today on Frank Gaffney’s Secure Freedom Radio, Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North gives us a look that heroes of the United States’ Special Operations forces in order to get a sense of what they go through, what they sacrifice, and what it means to our national security.  They also discuss North’s previous book, American Heroes In [...]
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Brad Thor

Who at the Pentagon is Whispering in Bob Gates’ Ear?

On October 21, we told you that a DoD official had leaked the findings of a confidential investigation into Michael Furlong and his highly successful Force Protection program to the New York Times.  The leak was authorized in an effort to embarrass Furlong and “make him go away.”  The New York Times subsequently held off [...]
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Brad Thor

Defense Department Finding Leaked to New York Times Reporter

In April, I reported that the New York Times was about to publish a list of covert American operatives providing force protection for our troops in Afghanistan.  A month later, the Times admitted that it did in fact have the list, but that they did not intend to publish the names.  It was the right [...]
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J. Michael  Waller

Special Ops Forces Should Snatch WikiLeaks Founder, Counterspy Says

The United States government should issue an arrest warrant for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, the Australian who published tens of thousands of classified U.S. military documents on his website, and try him on espionage charges. And if Assange doesn’t face the charges voluntarily, the U.S. should send in a commando team to snatch him anywhere [...]
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Sun Tzu

New Construction of Special Operations Base in Afghanistan: Bids Welcome

Eurasia Review is reporting: “The US Department of Defense is planning to build a Special Operations complex just 56 kilometers from the Uzbek-Afghan border. Up to $100 million is being earmarked for the sprawling facility, which will be constructed over 17.3 acres near Mazar-i-Sharif in northern Afghanistan. According to a modified pre-solicitation advertised on the US government’s [...]
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