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On this week's podcast SOFREP senior editor and SOFREP Radio host Steve Balestrieri talks with Dan Schilling Air Force Combat Controller (CCT) veteran,

Navy SEALs are refocusing to fight China and Russia. Here's what current and former members say they're up against. insider@insider.com (Stavros Atlamazoglou) © US Navy/PO1 Abe McNatt Navy SEAL candidates during Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL (BUD/S) training in Coronado, California, January 23, 2018. US Navy/PO1 Abe McNatt Naval Special Warfare Command is making strategic shift from counterterrorism operations to great-power competition. To take on new more capable foes - namely Russia and China - the command is retooling its forces to apply old skills to new challenges....

US Navy/PO1 Abe McNatt Naval Special Warfare Command is making strategic shift from counterterrorism operations to great-power competition. To take on new more capable foes — namely Russia and China — the command is retooling its forces to apply old skills to new challenges. Recently, Rear Adm. H. Wyman Howard III, the top SEAL officer and a former commander of SEAL Team 6, testified in Congress and highlighted Naval Special Warfare Command's strategic shift from counterterrorism operations to great-power competition against near-peer competitors, such as Rus...

Share This: Navy SEAL candidates during Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL (BUD/S) training in Coronado, California, January 23, 2018. US (Photo by Abe McNatt, U.S. Navy) Recently, Rear Adm. H. Wyman Howard III, the top SEAL officer and a former commander of SEAL Team Six, testified in Congress and highlighted Naval Special Warfare Command’s strategic shift from counterterrorism operations to great-power competition against near-peer competitors, such as Russia and China. A Sea Change SEAL Qualification Training Class 336 at their graduation ceremony, April 15, 2020. (Photo by MCS 1st Class A...

CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images As the threat from the Soviet Union declined in the early 1990s, a new challenge for the US arose in the Middle East. The first Gulf War was a textbook conventional war, but it featured an array special-operations missions that helped secure victory. Soon after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War, the US military shifted its focus from Russia to the Middle East. In August 1990, Saddam Hussein's Iraq invaded neighboring Kuwait, starting an international crisis that would end with Iraq's defeat by a US-led coaliti...