Since replacing the ACFT on June 1, 2025, the Army Fitness Test has used five events worth up to 500 points altogether.

This week’s SOF News Update covers the activation of SPACEFOR-SOC, evolving Army special operations missions, U.S. counternarcotics operations in Latin America, the Russia-Ukraine war, Iranian ...

This week’s SOF News Update examines new USASOC leadership, expanded American special operations activity in the Philippines and Alaska, Iran-war MQ-9 losses, shifting security relationships with Oman ...

This week’s SOF Weekly Brief examines developments in special operations, irregular warfare, and international security. U.S. and allied SOF continue multinational training as emerging technologies ...

Image: “Battle of Harlem Heights” (c. 1860). Painted by Alonzo Chappel, engraved by J.C. Armytage. The patrol belonged to Knowlton’s Rangers, whose short, costly service ended 250 years ago this fall, ...

Several members of a private military company owned by Erik Prince were wounded or killed during a clash with M23 in Congo.

Derrick Anderson has been confirmed as the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict (ASD SO/LIC). The former Green Beret will be advising the undersecretary of ...

This weekly briefing summarizes developments in special operations forces (SOF), global conflicts, intelligence, and national security from the past week. Iran submits another peace deal, Trump ...

Curated news, analysis, and commentary on special operations, intelligence, irregular warfare, national defense, and global conflicts. Photo / Image: MARSOC Marine from Special Operations Task Force ...

In May 2026 the White House released the “United States Counterterrorism Strategy 2026”. This 16-page PDF describes how the U.S. Government will use diplomatic, intelligence, military, economic, law ...

The United States entered Afghanistan in 2001 with overwhelming advantages in military capability, technology, and resources. By every conventional measure, the Taliban was badly outmatched. Yet ...

The Iranian Embassy siege took place from April 30 to May 5, 1980. A group of six armed Iranian Arab men stormed the Iranian Embassy in London. They took 26 hostages – demanding safe passage out of ...