While the two terms are often referred to interchangeably, there is an important difference between Special Forces and ...

Special Operations Command should more closely study data on training incidents and spend more time observing high-risk, noncombat operations to better mitigate accidents involving its elite forces, a ...

The information provides a rare snapshot into military efforts to breach what is effectively the last frontier of gender integration. (Lance Cpl. Andrew Skiver/Marine Corps) In the eight years since ...

Surrounded by high fences at Fort Bliss, classic hip hop by the group House of Pain blasts from the speakers inside a shoot house. The structure resembles a human-sized maze where Soldiers, not mice, ...

On May 1, 1952, the U.S. Army opened the special operations training center and school that still trains most of its special operations forces today. The school was then known as the Psychological ...

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 ...

US special operators are shifting focus to jungle warfare as the potential for conflict with China grows. Marine Raiders recently completed a jungle warfare course in Hawaii showing the requirements ...

The Fort Bragg Cartel: Drug Trafficking and Murder in the Special Forces, by Seth Harp, Penguin Random House, 368 pages, $30 The Fort Bragg Cartel, by the longtime Rolling Stone journalist Seth Harp, ...

President Trump nominated Marine Lt. Gen. Frank Donovan to lead U.S. Southern Command as operations expand against drug ...

The alert, issued to retired service members who served in Iraq or Syria and live in Florida, did not specify what kind of threat or which terrorist group was involved. By Eric Schmitt and Julian E.

SOCOM’s naval component also acquires equipment-related and knowledge-based services through the contract in support of day-to-day operations. Special Operations Command has awarded five companies ...

President Trump has nominated Lt. Gen. Jonathan P. Braga to lead the Joint Special Operations Command. Braga currently commands the U.S. Army Special Operations Command, a position he has held since ...