FORT BRAGG, N.C., - Today marks the 55th anniversary of the activation of the Military Assistance Command, Vietnam, Studies and Observations Group (MACV-SOG) in the Republic of Vietnam.

The chief of the U.S. Special Forces Command (SOCOM) believes his troops need sophisticated new tools to locate and share data about targets on the battlefield, reports Defense News. U.S. special ...

As a Special Forces “Green Beret” NCO, he served three years with the Vietnam War’s top secret covert operations unit, MACV-SOG, leading intelligence gathering teams deep behind enemy lines ...

SOG operators pulled off some of the most impressive special operations of the entire war; including some that seemed to defy logic itself. As successive U.S. administrations claimed that no ...

Composed of Green Berets, Navy SEALs, Recon Marines, Air Commandos, and indigenous forces, SOG tried to stop the onslaught from the North and give South Vietnam some breathing space.

In May 1967, US special operators and Vietnamese troops went behind enemy lines to take out North Vietnam's top general. The mission led by the secretive MACV-SOG quickly went wrong, and US forces ...

The kind of mission that killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan in May is "routine" for U.S. special forces, who conduct a dozen or so such missions every night in Afghanistan and Iraq, their co.

Billy Waugh, the U.S. Army Green Berets legend who also served as a CIA operative, passed away on April 4, 2023, at the age of 93. (U.S. Army photos via 1st Special Forces Command’s Twitter feed) ...

Stephen G. Fogarty, Jamie O. Nasi, Special Operations Forces Truths — Cyber Truths, The Cyber Defense Review, Vol. 1, No. 2 (FALL 2016), pp. 19-28 Free online reading for over 10 million articles Save ...

Key point: The practice of taking enemy weapons from the battlefield as trophies was hardly new in the 1960s. But captured weapons—especially AK variants—quickly became important parts of U.S ...