SEAL

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Sept. 22, 2011 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 opera...

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Special operations forces will become more important in the future, said Navy Adm. Eric T. Olson, who turned over the reins of U.S. Special Operations Command today. Navy Adm. William H. McRaven...

Senior U.S. leaders extended condolences to the families of American and Afghan forces lost in an International Security Assistance Force helicopter crash in eastern Afghanistan. Thirty ISAF serv...

The recent Special Operations mission conducted by the U.S. Seal Team Six (ST6) to acquire and terminate a high-value target by a highly specialised task force involved the use of the Sikorsky MH60...

The role of special forces On 2 May 2011, US Navy SEALs flew from Afghanistan to the Pakistani city of Abbottabad and initiated an assault on the compound being used as a hideout by the Al Q...

SO (special operations) can be conducted directly against an adversary in a single engagement, such as direct action (DA) against critical communication nodes, or indirectly, by organizing, training...

The US special forces night time raid, launched deep inside Pakistan against Osama Bin Laden, has been heralded by US officials as a ‘perfect operation’. This ‘perfect’ raid,...

May 19, 2011 Al-Qaeda has released what is believed to be the final audio message allegedly recorded by Osama bin Laden just before he was killed in a U.S. raid in Pakistan earlier this month....

As dawn breaks, Norwegian tanker MV Green Sea makes its way around the southern tip of the Horn of Africa. The night has passed quietly and the officer of the watch scribbles the last entry into his...