The policy is gone, but the question it left behind remains: did Washington ever trade standards for optics, or merely make that fear impossible to prove?

The influx of troops, medics and weaponry follows the deaths of three American soldiers in an Iranian weekend attack.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. China's special forces have serious problems that would limit their effectiveness in a Taiwan war. Chinese manuals suggest these ...

The continuous rise of drones on the battlefield has forced soldiers to adopt new training and tactics. They need to keep an ...

Special Operations Command should more closely study data on training incidents and spend more time observing high-risk, noncombat operations to better mitigate accidents involving its elite forces, a ...

TAMPA, Florida—Today’s special operators are rapidly becoming the model for the rest of the U.S. military, disrupting how the Defense Department does everything from buying gear to responding to ...

WASHINGTON — A Republican lawmaker from North Carolina has introduced a bill to grant active-duty and former special operations members permission to carry concealed firearms across state lines, ...

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Bob Keller, former US Army Special Forces and Delta Force operator, rates 10 Army special operations scenes in movies and TV, such as "Black Hawk Down," for realism. Keller breaks down the accuracy of ...

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America's Special Operations Forces (SOF), regardless of their nature, are a special breed of military, used to performing missions that would seem simply impossible for most other soldiers. As such, ...