“Tell people what we did in World War II,” one soldier said. “Tell them about Salerno.” by Susan Katz Keating EAGLE PASS, TX – In a parking lot near the U.S. southern border, members of the Texas National Guard encountered our team from Soldier of Fortune. The “T-Patchers” just had …

Wagner Group has been getting increased attention in the wake of a recent article that says they are chasing the depleted warlord Joseph Kony in Africa. I don’t buy that story, and I’m not convinced re this new vid. COMMENTARY by Susan Katz Keating A video on a Russian secure …

BOOK REVIEW by Susan Katz Keating When Marty Skovlund Jr. told me a while back that he was working on a book about Navy cryptology tech Shannon Kent, I made a note to myself to look for the book when it was published. Within the special operations community, Shannon’s name …

by Susan Katz Keating Enacted without irony. While marking the anniversary of Victory Day today in Moscow, Russian President Vladimir Putin and other foreign heads of state laid flowers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Alexander Garden. There was no mention of the carnage Putin has wrought in …

Don’t ask questions. Just watch, and contact your Army recruiter. It’s baaaack…… A previous Army PsyOp recruiting vid, Ghosts in the Machine, was so magnificently weird that it tore up the ‘net. The 4th Psychological Operations Group (Airborne) got high props for creeping people out at a whole new level.  The original …

“We weren’t Special Forces or Airborne. We were mostly just a bunch of draftee grunts who turned out to be damn good soldiers.” by Susan Katz KeatingThe soldiers proceeded cautiously through the jungle highlands west of Pleiku, near the Cambodian border, on the morning of May 18, 1967. The men …

Special Forces candidates test their mettle on the Nasty Nick Obstacle course at the U.S. Army’s John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School. The course was named after legendary Green Beret James “Nick” Rowe. READ MORE: Col. Nick Rowe: Long-Ago Conversations With a Special Forces Legend

by Susan Katz Keating “There’s a certain sound…” The song stuck with him for years afterwards. He was being marched to his execution in the jungles of Vietnam, and had been ordered to carry a radio to pick up “Radio Hanoi,” but he secretly dialed in to a station that …

A previous Army PsyOps ghost-clown recruiting vid, Ghosts in the Machine, was so offbeat and effective, it tore up the ‘net. The 4th Psychological Operations Group (Airborne) got high props for creeping people out at a whole new level. Now, some of the video’s same characters are back, dancing through …

by Susan Katz Keating Yes or no; Да или нет? Did a Russian assassination team inflict the mysterious Havana Syndrome on American targets, as reputable journalists allege; or has an innocent unit been framed, as Moscow would have us believe? To anyone looking for answers, here is one Red flag …