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Special Forces to build ‘influence artillery’ for online campaigns February 18 1st Special Forces Command is creating an Information Warfare Center that will specialize in tailored influence messaging. (Staff Sgt. Joseph Tolliver/Army) WASHINGTON — To stay ahead of rapidly moving threats in the information space, 1st Special Forces Command is building an Information Warfare Center that will specialize in “influence artillery rounds.” Critical to Special Forces’ role is deployi...

comments The Department of Homeland Security confirmed on Wednesday that the neo-Nazi leader of the Base, a white nationalist and accelerationist paramilitary group recently designated a terror group by the Canadian government, worked within their ranks for several years, coordinating efforts to combat terrorism.   According to a VICE News report released on Wednesday, Rinaldo Nazzaro, the leader of the Base, publicized three letters from the DHS and the Marine Corps thanking Nazzaro for h...

He told the judge he did not have a “solid memory” of what happened in his room at the Al Assad Air Base in Iraq because of the “copious amounts of alcohol I’d consumed.” Still, he said after reviewing the evidence he agreed that he grabbed the sailor by the neck and bit her on her face, ignoring her pleas for him to stop. He agreed with the facts read by the judge that he “applied pressure to her neck that caused her to have difficulty breathing.” When asked by the judge why he d...

Share This: As the U.S.’s involvement in Vietnam steadily grew with more conventional troops, so did its secret war. To counter the Viet Cong’s guerrilla campaign, which was supported by the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) and was raging inside South Vietnam, the Pentagon established a highly secretive special operations organization in 1964. The Military Assistance Command Vietnam-Studies and Observations Group (MACV-SOG) was tasked with taking the fight to the enemy regardless of where they w...

Photo by Airman 1st Class Joseph Pick The U.S. Special Operations Command eyes limited competition between Fulcrum Concepts and CFD International for a replacement Light Weight Plank Systems (LWPS) for use on the A/MH-6M helicopters. As noted by the U.S. government’s main contracting website, Special Operations Command is looking for a contractor for procurement LWPS in one five-year ordering period. The LWPS designed and produced for the AH-6 and MH-6 Little Bird helicopters. It utilizes ...

The retired U.S. Navy admiral who directed the raid that killed Osama bin Laden is continuing his career as an author

» Inside the covert mission that sent Delta Force and British SAS deep behind Iraqi lines in search of Saddams missiles Inside the covert mission that sent Delta Force and British SAS deep behind Iraqi lines in search of Saddams missiles Stavros AtlamazoglouFeb 12, 2021, 19:53 IST Iraqis drive by a mural depicting Iraqi President Saddam Hussein looking at launched Scud missiles, in Thar Thar City in northern Iraq, April 28, 1999.KARIM SAHIB/AFP via Getty Images In January and February 1991, hu...

When Bargewell retired in 2006, he was the most decorated soldier on active duty. Eldon Bargewell knew he would serve in the military from a very young age. With Vietnam War heating up, he enlisted in the Army in 1967 and went straight to Special Forces selection. Once he received his Green Beret, he deployed to Southeast Asia. There, he further volunteered for the elite Military Assistance Command Vietnam-Studies and Observations Group (MACV-SOG). SOG was a covert unit that conducted cross-bor...

Back in 2018 American troops began receiving a new pistol and most users have been satisfied with the choice of a Sig Sauer design, which the US Navy SEALs had already been issued since the 1980s SEALs and other components of SOCOM (Special Operation

During the Vietnam War, the US created a highly classified unit that still influences modern special operations Stavros Atlamazoglou US Air Force Bell UH-1P helicopters from the 20th Special Operations Squadron fly into Cambodia, around 1970. As the US waged a conventional war in South Vietnam, a group of special operators carried out a secret war inside and outside the country. The Military Assistance Command Vietnam-Studies and Observations Group, as their unit was kn...