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Army special operators invited other US troops and other militaries to a sniper competition. Here's who came out on top.
US and foreign sharpshooters gathered in North Carolina in March for US Army Special Operations Com…
Stavros Atlamazoglou
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US special operators are getting a new outpost in a tense corner of Europe
Amid tensions with Russia across Europe, US Special Operations Command Europe plans to set up a new…
Stavros Atlamazoglou
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Kim Jong Un just showed off two new North Korean aircraft that look shockingly similar to US military drones
Pyongyang's new drones are nearly identical in appearance to the MQ-9 Reaper and the RQ-4 Global Ha…
Jake Epstein
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Ukraine got its hands on North Korean rockets that troops say are wildly unpredictable and 'do crazy things,' and they're lobbing them at the Russians
Ukrainian forces are using unreliable North Korean rockets against Russian forces despite Pyongyang…
Kelsey Vlamis
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One of the Air Force's biggest planes has helped pull off every major special ops mission since Vietnam
"We don't kick in any doors, but we enable the special operators on the ground to kick them," a for…
Stavros Atlamazoglou
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After taking in Afghan commandos, the British military may try to build another elite special-operations force
The British military has a history of taking in foreign fighters, some of whom have developed their…
Stavros Atlamazoglou
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Combat video shows what Ukraine says are its special ops forces destroying enemy armor, capturing the cost of Russia's new assaults in the east
Kyiv said it destroyed tanks and armored vehicles amid what the White House has called Russia's "re…
Jake Epstein
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A Green Beret recalls the brutal Thanksgiving Day mission he barely survived after running into 30,000 enemy troops
As Americans at home sat down for Thanksgiving in 1968, John Stryker Meyer and his team of operator…
Stavros Atlamazoglou
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A harrowing New Year's Day attack on US special operators during the Vietnam War featured a sinister tactic
The North Vietnamese and Vietcong understood the danger MACV-SOG troops posed and went to extremes …
Stavros Atlamazoglou
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North Korea's arms factories are going full-tilt making weapons and ammo for Russia's war, says South Korea
North Korean arms factories usually operate at 30%, but the ones making munitions for Russia at "fu…
Matthew Loh
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US special operators and their allies say taking on Russia and China in Africa requires 'strange bedfellows'
"Sometimes you've got to sleep with strange bedfellows to achieve the overall goal, but that's wher…
Stavros Atlamazoglou
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Italy's elite special forces stormed a cargo ship taken over by knife-wielding stowaways, reports say
Italy's San Marco Brigade was scrambled on Friday to the Galata Seaways cargo ship off the coast of…
Kieran Corcoran
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How Delta, Rangers, and the Green Berets' unique training would pay off in an Arctic war with Russia
Arctic warfare demands a special set of skills to survive and win - skills that Army special operat…
Stavros Atlamazoglou
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A rare appearance in a tough off-road race highlights the Green Berets' little-known method for getting into and out of hotspots
Green Beret mobility teams use the Ground Mobility Vehicle 1.1 to carry out their specialty: long-r…
Stavros Atlamazoglou
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How the Army's elite Delta Force pulled off a record-setting mission against the Taliban only weeks after 9/11
In the hours after the September 11 attacks, the US military began planning what remains the longes…
Stavros Atlamazoglou
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At the height of the Cold War, the US Navy used a historic round-the-world operation to show off its new nuclear force
Operation Sea Orbit was meant to demonstrate the US Navy's mastery of nuclear propulsion and show t…
Benjamin Brimelow
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How a daring mission behind enemy lines turned into a disaster for the US's secretive Vietnam-era special operators
The 1967 mission led by the secretive MACV-SOG quickly went wrong, and US forces spent days fightin…
Stavros Atlamazoglou
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What the IDF's past special-ops missions reveal about how Israel takes out Hamas' rockets and tunnels
"The Israelis are top-notch, easily among the top five special-operations communities in the world,…
Stavros Atlamazoglou
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3 legendary leaders who made America's special-operations units into the elite forces they are today
The US military's special operators have had many storied leaders. These three have left their mark…
Stavros Atlamazoglou
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How a surprise invasion deep behind enemy lines turned the tide in the US's first Cold War conflict
By September 1950, three months after North Korea invaded South Korea, Gen. Douglas MacArthur knew …