Publication/Issue: Special Operations 2015

Many of the details of Abu Kamal Raid remain controversial and unconfirmed, but the bare outlines are these. On the ...

With the Civil War about to erupt in April 1861, Thaddeus S.C. Lowe decided to fly his hot air balloon ...

In April 2004, an Iraqi group kidnapped four Italian workers off the streets of Baghdad. One man, Fabrizio Quattrocchi, was ...

In the immediate aftermath of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, Americans of every political persuasion came together to ...

The daring operation recounted in the story of the Trojan Horse is easily the earliest, most successful, and most famous special ...

The situation had become perilous. The pirates had just turned down a ransom of $1.5 million. One of the two ...

Following the invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944, the Allies’ advance through France depended heavily on help from a ...

Special forces in the town of Gardez began gathering intelligence on the remaining Al Qaeda and Taliban forces in the ...

On Nov. 4, 2004, a group of 20 Iraqi gunmen stormed a compound in Baghdad and took six hostages, including ...

Soon after American-led coalition forces entered Iraq in March 2003, intelligence efforts focused on the chemical weapons (or other so-called ...

Luckily for Robert Rogers, the French and Indian War — pitting the British against the French and their Native American ...

Special operations by their very nature are highly dangerous and inevitably involve a range of factors that simply cannot be ...

When Libyan rebels commandeered the oil tanker MV Morning Glory and managed to evade efforts by the Libyan government to ...

On June 27, 1976, two Palestinian and two German terrorists hijacked an Air France fight headed from Tel Aviv to ...

Based in Uzbekistan, in a former Soviet airbase near Karshi Kandabad, Task Force Dagger was a series of operations mostly ...

The two-story beach house was just 220 yards from the Indian Ocean in southern Somalia. It was known as a ...

This failed mission, which represented the first time — as far as we know — that American combat boots hit ...

American intelligence had been watching Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan for years, looking for an opportunity to take him out. Widely believed ...

Long on the U.S. list of most-wanted terrorists, Abu Anas al-Libi had evaded capture for many years after his alleged ...

What eventually became known as the Battle of Tora Bora began as a special operation led by CIA officer Gary ...