Whether or not you've served in the United States military, there's little doubt you've heard the terms "Special Forces" and "Special Operations." These have become interchangeable in the media such ...

Few fighting forces in history have shaped the modern battlefield more profoundly than the warriors of Naval Special Warfare.

For over a century, sharpshooters have shaped the evolution of special operations warfare. From the minimalist precision of Simo Häyhä to the extreme-range shots of modern SOF snipers, these marksmen ...

The National Defense Industrial Association’s annual Special Operations Symposium is often a window into the future of Special Operations Forces, so it was perhaps unusual that the 35th symposium on ...

The crew member, a colonel and weapons officer, had been evading his Iranian pursuers for two days despite being injured. The race against time was won by the United States. In a bold and risky ...

The mission to rescue the isolated airman inside Iran has been described as one of the most challenging and complex in the history of U.S. special operations. The Weapons Systems Officer (WSO) who ...

TAMPA, Florida—Today’s special operators are rapidly becoming the model for the rest of the U.S. military, disrupting how the Defense Department does everything from buying gear to responding to ...

In two recent articles at the Irregular Warfare Initiative—The Last A-Team: Special Forces Aren’t Special Anymore and A New Vision for Special Forces—Ned Marsh has performed a valuable service for the ...

Editor’s Note: While War on the Rocks has a high standard for allowing pseudonyms, this is an unusual case: U.S. Army Special Operations Command requires its uniformed personnel to use pseudonyms when ...

Before dawn on June 1, 2025, Ukrainian intelligence and special-operations planners initiated truck-launched first-person-view (FPV) drones they had hidden in trucks delivering goods near four Russian ...