The Snow Leopard Commando Unit is an elite military unit of the People’s Liberation Army specializing in mountain combat. They are trained to operate in the snow-covered terrain of the Tibetan-Qinghai Plateau, which is mostly inhabited by ethnic Tibetans and belongs to China. How did this elite unit come about? Here, are 10 things you More »
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What Would ARSOF’s Role Be in Near-Peer Conflict With Russia?
The Army’s Special Operations Forces (ARSOF) are in transition. With the end of the 20-year war in Afghanistan and the slow winding down of combat operations in Iraq, ARSOF units are moving from an emphasis to a door-kicking counter-terrorism role to a more traditional role of countering near-peer adversaries such as Russia or China. ARSOF’s More »
Taiwan Special Forces Have Been Working With US Troops, but Who Are They?
Recent official confirmation of U.S. troops training with Republic of China (R.O.C.) forces in Taiwan is hardly shocking news. The U.S. Army 1st Special Forces Group even posted a video of joint training to Facebook more than a year ago. Recently, U.S. foreign policy has placed increased attention on the decades-long Nationalist-Communist Chinese conflict. To More »
Is China’s Aggression Really Out of Control?
Headlines the last few days screamed about Chinese aggression and Chinese warplanes buzzing over Taiwan. Then, came the “bombshell” report of U.S. troops in Taiwan, training the Taiwanese military. To invade China? To repel a Chinese invasion? To quit losing at paintball? How about because we maintain an agreement with them that has been in More »
Green Berets Deploy to Taiwan as Tensions With China Rise
China continues to test and harass Taiwan’s air defense capability with nearly daily forays into Taiwanese airspace. Tensions between China and Taiwan which the Chinese consider a wayward province, and the United States continue to rise. Now, it was reported that U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) troops are in Taiwan training Taiwanese troops. For the More »
Malayan Emergency: The Birth of the Modern Special Air Service
Malaya — 1948. The United Kingdom and the Malayan Communist Party (MCP) are vying for the post-colonial soul of the country. From the start, it wasn’t going to be easy for the British military. Malaya, you see, was in that awkward situation so common wherever Europeans decided to plant a flag: One border, two ethnicities. More »
Tunnel-mapping tech may be the most important special operations gear of the 21st century
Recently, NEWSREP Editor-in-chief Jack Murphy reported on the U.S. military’s standing plan to infiltrate Iranian underground bunkers housing integral elements of the nation’s nuclear apparatus. If war between the United States and Iran were ever to come to fruition, these facilities (commonly referred to as hardened and deeply buried targets, or HDBTs) would be among More »
Mismanagement Plagues Air Force F-22 Raptor Program
Another excellent article from Alex Hollings over on our parent site NEWSREP was posted the other day on the trials and tribulations of the most lethal superiority fighter in the world, the F-22 Raptor. Hollings wrote that the biggest issues with the fighter have to do from within the U.S., not its enemies. U.S. congressmen, More »
US Aid to Venezuela Thru Colombia Now is the Crux of the Crisis
Opinion: The United States is pushing the envelope against the authoritarian regime of Nicholas Maduro in Venezuela. No one is arguing, except Maduro that the tons of medical supplies are urgently needed. The people of Venezuela are in dire need of food, medicine and an end to the hyper-inflation devastating the once prosperous nation’s economy. More »
Navy SEALs Are Placing More Emphasis on Big Wars With China, Russia
“The Times they are a-changin” wrote Bob Dylan in 1964 but for the U.S. Navy SEAL teams, it may not mean that they are changing per se, but returning to their original roots. After two decades of war in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria, the Navy’s Special Warfare specialists are preparing more for a conflict with More »
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