Security

In the remote backcountry, where smugglers and lost souls increasingly are part of the landscape, bad scenes have become as common as stray clouds. by Susan Katz Keating The cowboys were out on the range on a Texas morning, fixing fences that were cut down the previous night by intruders. …

How the Galleanists operated holds lessons for today as we continue to deal with the endless threat of terrorism. by Jeffrey D. Simon Though largely forgotten today, one of the most creative and destructive terrorist groups in the United States was the Galleanists, a fiery band of Italian anarchists active …

Its anchor is missing, and drag marks have been found on the ocean floor where undersea cables were damaged in the Baltic Sea – developments that have kept the focus on the Eagle S oil tanker in the wake of a sabotage investigation in Finland. Finnish authorities boarded the Eagle …

The Wagner group continues to run training centers in Russia, despite the deaths of the organization’s founders Yevgeny Prigozhin and Dmitry Utkin in a 2023 plane crash. One school, Octagon, trains operators to use kamikaze drones. A correspondent from RFE/RL signed up for the course. Here is his report. His name …

A Russian general in charge of Moscow’s Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Defense Forces was assassinated early Tuesday in Moscow, in an explosion that also killed his assistant. Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov and Ilya Polikarpov were killed when a bomb detonated while they walked past it. The device was concealed inside …

by Sara Garcia, Insight Crime Juan Manuel Delgado Cárdenas was months away from completing his studies in pharmaceutical chemistry and biology at the Autonomous University of Baja California when, on April 30, 2021, three men entered his family home in Tijuana and opened fire. Delgado Cárdenas was killed while two …

Editor’s note: This article originally appeared in SOF on June 2, 2023. We are republishing it here for context in light of drones being reported over New Jersey in December 2024. All references are from 2023. The illustrations for this story are AI, but the events are real. ~SKK by …

Over the last year, U.S. officials have seized more illicit fentanyl at Arizona’s ports of entry than anywhere else on the US-Mexico border, suggesting a possible shift in synthetic drug trafficking routes. “We’re seeing shipments of all kinds coming in fast through new routes into Arizona,” one Border Patrol agent …

by Bruce Pannier “Well guys, are we going, or are we going to sit here taking a piss?” It has been 25 years since the culmination of the so-called Russian constitutional crisis, when the country’s president, Boris Yeltsin, sought to dissolve the parliament and then ordered the military to crush …

It began as a tank battalion exercise in 1991. Today, Exercise Steel Knight is an annual training event lead by the 1st Marine Division – one that spans the western United States and California coast. Focusing on ground fires, maneuver warfare tactics and command and control capabilities, this exercise tests …