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Two Airmen assigned to the Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) have been selected to compete with the USA Bobsled team in preparation for the 2022 Winter Olympics. Air Force Captains Dakota Lynch and Christopher Walsh haven’t secured a spot on the team that will represent the country in four years, but just the opportunity […]
A Hellenic Air Force (HAF) pilot has been named NATO’s Best Warrior for 2018. Captain Kosmas Xalaris was voted by his NATO colleagues as the best overall pilot in the Tactical Leadership Programme (TLP). The competition happened between September 10 and October 4, during the 3rd Air Training Series for 2018. The Greek pilots participated […]
For years now, the U.S. military has been pondering how to replace its mainstay M16/M4 rifles. The rifles can trace their development history to the years before the Vietnam War. However, the recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, where engagement distances have been exceeding the effective range of the M16/M4, have brought a renewed purpose […]
A joint military and police operation in Newcastle, in northern England, thwarted a probable ISIS terrorist plot. Members of the United Kingdom Special Forces (UKSF) and police officers from the Counter Terrorism Command (CTC) assaulted a house in Arthur’s Hill and arrested an individual suspected of plotting a terrorist attack for Christmas. The suspect, a […]
It is a common misconception that special operations forces (SOF) are comprised of superhumans that would put to shame Olympian athletes — some would, though. That is not to say that the physical component isn’t crucial. Rather, it is to highlight that it is the mind that drives the body to achieve extraordinary feats of […]
It’s December. The new year is just around the corner. And that it means that the war in Afghanistan will enter its 18th year. What began as an attempt to obliterate al Qaeda and its Taliban hosts, has evolved throughout the years in a protracted conflict with no end in sight. Apparently, the Afghan government […]
To many, modern warfare, and particularly drone warfare, can seem like a video game. Successive waves of war movies and video games have managed to replicate the images of the modern battlefield. Images, however, are just that: visual interpretations of events. They don’t show the impact, physical or mental, that the participants experience. Dr Peter […]
A Multi-Purpose Canine (MPC) assigned to the 2nd Ranger Battalion (2/75) was killed during a raid against an al-Qaeda target in Afghanistan. In doing so, he sacrificed his life to give his Ranger buddies a decisive advantage over the enemy. The MPC has been identified as Maiko, a veteran of six deployments in Afghanistan with […]
Please copyedit this but don’t push it to Production (Stavros). It’s ready for production (Jimmy) Established during the Second World War, the 1st Special Service Force (SSF) was a joint American-Canadian commando unit. It participated in all major combat operations in Italy and Southern France before being deactivated in 1944. Because of its formidable […]
The U.S. Navy has decided to postpone the Article 32 hearing of the two Navy SEALs and two Marine Raiders suspected of killing a Special Forces Staff Sergeant in Bamako, Mali, in 2017. The hearings were scheduled to take place on December 10. Navy officials didn’t provide a reason for the postponement. Instead, they indicated […]
In a rare show of support to the Trump administration, NATO has accused Russia of breaching a Cold War-era nuclear missile treaty. In a high-level meeting of NATO officials in Brussels, the 29 foreign ministers of the transatlantic alliance voiced their concerns with Moscow’s development of medium-range nuclear missiles. According to the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear […]
A top Taliban commander and four of his deputies were killed in an American drone strike earlier this month. Mullah Abdul Manan was travelling through the Nawzad district of Helmand province, which is situated in southern Afghanistan, when the strike took place. Helmand was the birthplace of the Taliban movement. Throughout the Afghan conflict, the southern […]