Last month, we welcomed our new president at SOAA, Jack Barry, a veteran of the U.S. Army’s 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (SOAR). A longtime member of the SOAA ecosystem,…
Our founder, Green Beret Daniel Elkins, started the Special Operations Association of America (SOAA) in 2021 to ensure that the voices of special operations forces (SOF) personnel, whose work is…
For decades, the formula for special operations veterans leaving service has followed a predictable and painful pattern: elite warriors who thrived in structure, mission, and brotherhood find themselves unmoored in…
On April 30, U.S. Navy Admiral Frank Bradley, head of U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM), defended requests for an increased budget to the Senate. Bradley argued that SOCOM required additional…
Results from a study commissioned by the U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) found that members of the special operations forces (SOF) community are facing cancer at a rate 18 percent…
Bring Irregular Warfare to the Conventional Forces In response to our peer and near-peer adversaries deploying irregular tactics against the U.S., many policymakers have sought to increase conventional forces’ training…
After an F-15E Strike Eagle was downed by Iranian air defenses on April 3, U.S. intelligence, special operations forces (SOF), and conventional forces mounted a multi-layered response over the course…
SOAA Editor's note: In the following article we are going to talk a lot about HUXWRX and their suppressor technology. This is not a marketing message, nor do we have…
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…
On Jan. 7, Army National Guard Lieutenant Colonel Derrick Anderson was sworn in as Assistant Secretary of War for Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict. Anderson is the latest Trump administration…