America’s New Maritime Hunters: Inside the U.S. Coast Guard’s Special Missions Command
In May 2026, the United States Coast Guard announced the creation of a new Special Missions Command — a major restructuring designed to unif...
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20 of 218 episodesAct of Valor: Real Operators, Scripted War
Act of Valor put active-duty SEALs and SWCC crews in front of the camera and filmed live-fire training as if it were the mission. The CQB fl...
Poland Just Ran the Drill Ukraine Invented the Hard Way
late August, Green Berets put Polish special forces through a new U.S. exercise at Hohenfels: cross a simulated front, move about sixty mile...
Polar Dagger: Green Berets on an Island You Can See Russia From
mid-August, 10th Special Forces Group inserted men and ATVs by Chinook onto St. Lawrence Island as part of Operation Polar Dagger 2026. The...
Bob "The Ninja" Porras: Inside a Career in Delta Force's "The Unit"
Carlos sits down with Bob "The Ninja" Porras for a wide-ranging look back at a career spent in the world of Delta Force and "The Unit." The...
The Badge Nobody Can Take From You Twice- Navy Seals
Every insignia is a confession dressed up as a decoration. This one was built from an eagle, a pistol, an anchor, and a god’s weapon, and it...
The Death of Imad Mughniyeh: How a Car Bomb in Damascus Ended a 25-Year Manhunt
On February 12, 2008, Hezbollah’s chief of international operations, Imad Mughniyeh, was killed by a car bomb in Damascus, Syria, in an oper...
Loughgall: The Ambush That Broke the IRA’s East Tyrone Brigade
May 8, 1987, the British Army’s Special Air Service laid a deadly ambush for an IRA active service unit attacking Loughgall RUC station in C...
The Villa in Mosul: The Hunt for Uday and Qusay Hussein
July 2003, a joint task force built around Delta Force operators and the 101st Airborne converged on a villa in Mosul where Saddam Hussein’s...
De Oppresso Liber: How a Beret Became a Legend”
In 1953, a small group of Army officers started wearing an unauthorized piece of headgear in defiance of their own chain of command — and it...
Seventeen Seconds Near Ramadi: The Delta Force Rescue That Ended Without a Shot
In June 2004, A Squadron of Delta Force executed one of the cleanest hostage rescues of the early Iraq War, freeing four captives in roughly...
The Kill That Broke Zarqawi: How Delta and the SAS Finally Got Him
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi spent years slaughtering civilians, beheading hostages, and stoking sectarian war in Iraq while slipping through every...
The Uranium Option: SEALs, Rangers, and the Iran Contingency
Reports say U.S. planners examined a high-risk special operations mission to secure or destroy Iran’s enriched uranium using Navy SEALs and...
Operation Cactus: The Night India Airlifted a Parachute Brigade 2,000 Kilometers and Ended a Coup in Hours
In November 1988, roughly 80 Sri Lankan Tamil mercenaries from PLOTE seized key points in the Maldivian capital and tried to overthrow Presi...
Under Fire: Navy Airman Ryan Blackwell’s Tactical Survival
When an active shooter turned a military installation into a combat zone, Navy Airman Ryan Blackwell found himself staring down the barrel o...
Hormuz Under Fire: CENTCOM Precision Strikes, IRGC Boats, and the Special Operations Edge in the Strait
In this episode, we examine the July 7, 2026 CENTCOM retaliatory strikes that hit more than 80 Iranian targets—including air defenses, coast...
Egypt’s Sa’ka Forces: The Thunderbolts Behind the Middle East’s Most Underrated Special Operations Unit
Egypt’s Sa’ka Forces, whose name translates to Thunderbolt, are one of the most battle tested special operations units in the Middle East, f...
Smashing the Cartels: The 22nd MEU’s Secret War in the Caribbean
In this episode, we take you behind the scenes of a historic, grinding 10-month deployment that just wrapped up in our own backyard. The hea...
JSOC at the Border: Sicario-Style Interagency Ops, Convoy Tactics & Escalation Control Against Cartels
Explore the gritty reality of JSOC-level operations along the U.S.-Mexico border, where elite interagency task forces fuse military precisio...
Avispas Negras: Cuba’s Black Wasps – Elite Special Operations in a Resource-Constrained Environment
this episode, We examine the Avispas Negras, Cuba’s Mobile Brigade of Special Troops, an obscure yet highly capable special forces unit spec...