This week’s SOF News Brief examines changes in U.S. special operations force structure, including a new Air National Guard Special Tactics Squadron. Additional coverage addresses emerging clandestine ...

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 ...

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 ...

An AFT score and the promotion points it earns are two different numbers. 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 ...

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 ...

This week’s SOF News Update covers the activation of SPACEFOR-SOC, evolving Army special operations missions, U.S. counternarcotics operations in Latin America, the Russia-Ukraine war, Iranian ...

This week’s SOF News Update examines new USASOC leadership, expanded American special operations activity in the Philippines and Alaska, Iran-war MQ-9 losses, shifting security relationships with Oman ...

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, ...

A USAF F-15E Strike Eagle was shot down over southwest Iran on early Friday, April 3, 2026 (local time), reportedly in Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province (see map) while conducting a deep strike ...