In her testimony before the House Committee on Armed Services Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities, Linda Robinson details how U.S. Special Operations Forces can be restructured to better ...

Special operations forces, which have emerged as a key ingredient in the global war on terror, are light and agile and often are the first forces called upon when a crisis happens. “We’re expanding ...

Editor’s Note: this article is being republished with the permission of the Irregular Warfare Initiative as part of a republishing arrangement between IWI and SWJ. The original article was published ...

Today’s conflicts are evolving. The threat environment is complex, dynamic, asymmetric, technological and intense — all adjectives that play to the strengths of special operations. So, it is perhaps ...

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 ...

Success in special operations missions rests, in part, on critical enabling capabilities the Army, Navy and Air Force provide, the nation’s civilian and military special operations chiefs told ...

This is the first installment in a four-part series examining how Special Operations Forces (SOF) should assess, select, and qualify operators for the operating environment of 2040. One argument runs ...

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 ...