SkillBridge was created to ease the transition from military service to civilian life. Increasingly, however, it has become a casualty of manpower accounting and operational risk aversion, despite representing a…
With the release of its 2026 Emergency Watchlist, highlighting the 20 countries around the world facing the greatest humanitarian and economic crises, nongovernmental organization (NGO) International Rescue Committee (IRC) argues…
Following ongoing U.S. and Israeli strikes on the Iranian military and leadership apparatus, federal and local authorities are alerting Americans to a wide range of possible targets for Iranian reprisal.…
We've been monitoring the situation in Iran and today we're dissecting Operation Epic Fury through a realist lens. Not only have precision military strikes decapitated the Islamic Republic of Iran's…
During his Feb. 24 State of the Union address, President Donald Trump bestowed the Congressional Medal of Honor on 100-year-old retired U.S. Navy Capt. E. Royce Williams, Jr., whose heroic…
Could recycling dated office equipment hold the key to alleviating important national security challenges? Mender co-founder and CEO Kent Taggart certainly thinks so. Mender works with enterprise and institutional clients…
Since its work began in 2009, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan (SIGAR) has blown the whistle on 1,327 instances of abuse, fraud, and waste and identified $26 billion in…
On Nov. 18, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) reintroduced the Jax Act, legislation that would finally acknowledge an elite group of women who worked in conjunction with special operations forces (SOF)…
U.S. Marine Corps veteran Richard Gilbert has come a long way since an injury in Iraq led him to Balboa Naval Hospital. The first hurdle in his path was memory…
PTSD does not recognize borders, uniforms, or politics. A truth of special operations is that people matter more than hardware, and that we can learn something from anyone who has…