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Mountbatten as an admiral and supreme allied commander, Southeast Asia Command

Lord Louis Mountbatten Becomes Director of Combined Operations A World War II 70th anniversary web article

“We want you home here at once for something which you will find of the highest interest.”

—Telegram from Prime Minister Winston Churchill
to Capt. Lord Louis Mountbatten Oct. 10, …

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SAS War Diary Published

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“The SAS War Diary is a unique account of extraordinary men, warriors, who dared all to win all.

Unlike any other account, and because it is written by the men …

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Dusko Popov

Real Life James Bond, Dusko Popov, Ran Afoul of the FBI Dusko Popov, Pearl Harbor, and J. Edgar Hoover

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“From where I sit, [Hoover] would be more suited to Hitler’s team than ours. And to all intents and purposes that’s where he is.”

– Dusko Popov to British agent …

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Special Air Service Jeeps after a long patrol, North Africa, World War II

Who Dares Wins: The Special Air Service Is Formed World War II: 70 years

“The boy Stirling is mad. Quite, quite mad. However in war there is often a place for mad people.”

—Lt. Gen. Bernard L. Montgomery, Commander, Eighth Army

The SAS – …

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An Australian Special Forces soldier on overwatch at Gizab, Afghanistan. The Taliban was ousted from a northern Oruzgan town and local government restored thanks to a community uprising supported by Australian Special Forces soldiers and their Afghan partner force, the Provincial Police Reserve (PPR). In the northern Oruzgan town of Gizab, 10 members of the Taliban were confirmed to have been killed in a series of firefights commencing on April 21, which saw the SOTG, the PPR, and locals take on the insurgents who were intimidating the population through violence. Australian Defence Force photo

International Special Operations Forces 2010 Year in Review

In an era when there has been unprecedented pressure on special operations forces (SOF), with more SOF deployed in a wider range of theaters and taking a greater number of …

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A British Merlin HC. 3 helicopter of 28 Squadron comes in for a landing in Fao, Iraq, Sept. 29, 2008. The 28 Squadron Merlins have been supporting SFSG activities. DoD photo by Pfc. Rhonda J. Roth-Cameron, U.S. Army.

Allied Defenders International SOF Year in Review

Allied special operations forces (SOFs), principally American and British, are now experiencing their longest continuous commitment since the creation of the SOF concept during World War II. Some have been …

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Afghan commandos and Special Forces soldiers walk away from a village where they searched and cleared every compound. They found hundreds of kilograms of drugs and Taliban documentation in the village in the Shah Wali Kot district, Kandahar province, May 5, 2008.

International Special Operations Forces 2008-2009

There is now universal recognition that the kind of asymmetric warfare conducted in Afghanistan since 2001, and then with rather greater success in Iraq, remains the only viable counterinsurgency strategy, …

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Aftermath of the attack: Destroyed Argentinian Pucara and T-34 Turbo-Mentor attack aircraft lie broken on Pebble Island after the SAS raid. UK Ministry of Defence photo.

The SAS Raid on Pebble Island

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The dispute of the Falkland Islands, or Spanish name Las Islas Malvinas, stretches back over four centuries. The islands, located in the southern Atlantic Ocean, are some …

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