Opinion

The first operation for any operator is exhilarating, exciting, and produces a sense of accomplishment. Over a long period of time, operators gain more and more experience conducting all types of tactical operations. What happens to some operators over...

"The United States military hasn’t conducted a single combat operation within the sprawling area of responsibility that defines the Indo-Pacific Command (INDOPACOM) in 44 years. I’m overly fond of pointing out this little-commented-on fact of Indo-Pacific security, because its...

The Navy SEAL commando force is the stuff of legend, however, its commander warned about an ethical and professional crisis in the ranks with the Gallagher case front and center. "We have a problem," Rear Adm. Collin Green wrote in a letter...

Brian Katz reviews the contents of an interview with the commander of Iran’s Quds Force which revealed details about an escape from an increasingly intensifying Israeli campaign. Katz compares a scene in Beirut involving the Israelis and Iran to...

"Each year, more than 6,000 American veterans take their own lives. These include some of the bravest, most dedicated men and women this nation has ever produced. Soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines who put their own lives on the...

"This season could be called the Autumn of Discontent, as people from the Middle East to Latin America and the Caribbean have been rising up against corrupt neoliberal governments. Two of the countries in crisis, Haiti and Iraq, are...

"As part of Russia’s deals with Turkey, the Russians agreed to let Turkey take over Afrin in northwest Syria in January 2018. The goal for Russia was to weaken the US relationship with the Kurdish YPG. But that didn’t...

"Knowing how strongly my son felt about ensuring the weapons he carried in Kandahar, Afghanistan, would not end up in the hands of dangerous individuals on our streets, I am carrying on Dan’s legacy by supporting O’Rourke’s buyback program....

"The Battle of Mogadishu, the American operation in Somalia later immortalized by Mark Bowden’s seminal non-fiction book “Black Hawk Down” and dramatized in Ridley Scott’s exhilarating but slightly less non-fictional movie of the same name. On October 3, 1993,...

"2019 marks the first year someone born after 9/11 will be eligible to enlist in the armed forces to potentially serve in Afghanistan or another theater in the global war on terror. Never before in our history has an...