One hundred and sixty-one years ago, in a forgotten farmer’s field, two elite, pioneering American special operations forces clashed: only one group would fully survive.
The Confederacy planned arguably the first October Surprise–a bold attack at Cedar Creek to defeat a Union army—a desperate bid to aid the Copperhead Peace Democrats at the ballot box.
This weekend, Americans will dedicate a day to honor the memory of those who sacrificed their lives in defense of their country: Memorial Day.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has made it a habit to do physical training — or “PT” in military speak — early in the morning with troops he visits on overseas trips — winning him respect from troops, according to one retired Green Beret.
Police said a person presumed to be Green Beret Matthew Livelsberger had sustained a gunshot wound to the head prior to the detonation of the Tesla Cybertruck in front of a Trump hotel in Las Vegas.
Special Forces soldier and former CMU quarterback Tommy Lazzaro died after reportedly being hit by a hunter’s stray bullet while driving to help a fellow soldier with car trouble.
In early September 1864, the war was not going well for the North. Lincoln had staked the Republican Party’s political future on military victory over the Confederacy, yet Confederate General Jubal Early’s army had nearly marched on Washington. Another military failure on the battlefield would be disastrous for Lincoln.
Throughout 1863 and 1864, Confederate guerrilla leader John Singleton Mosby and his intrepid Rangers, “the South’s most dangerous men” terrorized the Northern troops in the area surrounding the Shenandoah Valley, known as “Mosby’s Confederacy.”
Modern conflicts are increasingly fought less on traditional battlefields and more through irregular warfare like disrupting supply chains, conducting psych ops, and other strategic maneuvers—including timing attacks with an eye toward media coverage and upcoming elections.
A crucial piece of intelligence can turn the tide of an entire battle or even a war. During the Civil War before the Third Battle of Winchester, that intelligence was obtained from two of the most unlikely of sources—a school teacher and a slave.
On April 18, 1864, author Herman Melville rode through the twilight, embedded with the 2nd Massachusetts Cavalry, on a scouting mission deep in enemy territory.
Mosby himself seemed to have a vampire-like ability to rise from the dead, being severely wounded a handful of times, but always staving off death and capture.
A lonely roadside sign stands by a winding Virginia country byway marking the site Union Jessie Scout Jack Sterry, also known as Lincoln’s Special Forces, spoke his last words. Through his cunning, he tried to lead the Confederate army down the wrong road, away from where it was crucially needed.
Thomas Ludwig, a retired U.S. Army Special Forces lieutenant colonel running for the seat vacated by George Santos’ expulsion from Congress, said he would take on China, the migrant crisis, and domestic crime as 3 of his top priorities.
Despite the “nightmare” of tunnel warfare, the mission being carried out by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) appears “very successful,” though Israel doesn’t have unlimited time, according to retired United States Army Major and urban warfare expert John Spencer, who deemed Hamas an “existential threat” whose strategy is to “create their own civilians’ deaths and get the world to react,” in order to prevent the IDF from eliminating their military capabilities — “and it is working.”
The White House admitted to accidentally doxxing American Special Forces in Israel by posting a photo of their faces on Instagram this week, which put their safety at risk.
Germany announced Monday it is sending sending elite troops to Australia as part of joint drills with some 30,000 service members from 12 other nations. The first-time deployment underlines Berlin’s increased focus on the Indo-Pacific as tensions with China build across the region.
The United States Army Special Operations Command posted a pride flag on all its social media accounts last week, prompting criticism from conservative commenters.
U.S. Special Operations Command (USASOC) announced on Saturday that it conducted its first simulated defense of Taiwan against a Chinese invasion.
Rush to evacuate embassy staff amid struggle for power in Sudan intensifies but some feel abandoned as western civilians get left behind.
An Army National Guard Special Forces soldier recently spoke out against the Pentagon’s vaccine mandate and its negative effects on morale and recruiting.
U.S. special forces on Thursday conducted an unusual helicopter raid near the village of Qamishli, an area controlled by the Syrian central government, in an apparently successful effort to eliminate Islamic State weapons smuggler Rakkan Wahid al-Shammri.
I asked Special Forces veteran Dave Alwine what Memorial Day meant to him. Tears filled his eyes and trickled down his face, right in the middle of the crowded visitor’s center at Arlington National Cemetery.
United States Special Forces veteran and candidate for U.S. House of Representatives in Florida, Jay Collins, told Thursday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily that he decided to run because he can help fix the nation’s problems after President Biden failed on the international stage.
A U.S. nonprofit group, comprised of “mostly special operation veterans,” is conducting rescue and humanitarian efforts in Ukraine.
Plumlee said when he exited a truck to confront suicide bombers in Afghanistan in 2013, he “absolutely” thought he was going to die.
Former British army Col. Ash Alexander-Cooper, who served as an adviser to the Afghan Ministry of Interior Affairs, reported on Tuesday that an Afghan sniper who worked with British special forces was hunted down by the Taliban and brutally executed in front of his family in Kabul.
Trump announced his endorsement of Green Beret veteran and Gold Star husband Joe Kent, who is running on an America First platform.
The Taliban released a propaganda video this week that allegedly depicts a commando unit of the terror group, seemingly equipped with high-tech arms, patrolling “sensitive areas” of Kabul, including the Afghan Presidential Palace, the Telegraph reported Thursday. “The video showed
(AFP) — The U.S. and French defence chiefs signed a new “roadmap” for cooperation between their special operations forces Friday as both seek to build international efforts to counter non-state threats like Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State group.
A senior enlisted leader at a unit in charge of training Army Special Forces recently warned soldiers not to wear or post “extremist logos.”
(AFP) — Australia’s elite special forces “unlawfully killed” 39 Afghan civilians and prisoners, including summary executions as part of initiation rituals, according to evidence in a searing military inquiry now being referred to a special war crimes prosecutor.
A female received a Special Forces tab for the first time in the U.S. Army’s history during a private ceremony Tuesday at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
A member of Germany’s Special Forces Command (KSK) has been sacked after the soldier in question was alleged to have sympathies with radical Islamic extremism.
Sen. Rand Paul said in a recent exclusive interview that the president needs more Republican allies to help him end the war in Afghanistan.
Members of the Afghan Special Security Forces (ASSF) — the country’s primary fighting unit against the Taliban — are partnering more with American and coalition forces instead of becoming independent, a U.S. government watchdog testified recently.
The Army gave a Special Forces captain with 17 years of service and a Purple Heart only 14 days of notice to separate from the Army.
Former Vice President Joe Biden said during the Democrat debate on Tuesday that there was a difference between “combat troops” and “Special Forces.” “There’s a difference between combat troops and leaving special forces in position,” he said when discussing what
The remains of an American soldier who was killed in Afghanistan earlier this week were transported home to the U.S. on Christmas morning.
Army Sergeant First Class Dustin B. Ard, 31, from Idaho Falls, Idaho, died of wounds sustained in combat in Zabul Province, Afghanistan.
