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Volume: 19
Number: 1
Year: 2022 Roundup
The Evolution of the Special Forces (SF) Operational Detachment-Alpha (ODA)
“Another Type of Warfare”: U.S. President John F. Kennedy’s Address to the West Point Class of 1962
From “irregular warfare” to Irregular Warfare: History of a Term
Silent Eagle 2011: Strengthening the U.S.-Japan Partnership
“Building the Airplane in Flight”: PSYOP in Operation DESERT SHIELD, Part 2
Volume: 18
Number: 1
Year: 2022
Honoring an ARSOF Legend: MG Robert T. Frederick
The 75th Ranger Regiment: Distinctive Unit Insignia
Spreading the Word Fast: PSYOP in Operation JUST CAUSE
Beyond the Numbers: The 528th Support Battalion in Operations DESERT SHIELD & DESERT STORM
Rising from the Ashes: PSYOP in Operation DESERT SHIELD, Part 1
Volume: 17
Number: 1
Year: 2021
Volume: 16
Number: 1
Year: 2020
Volume: 15
Number: 1
Year: 2019
Michael L. Kunik: Peerless Professional, Patriot
From Leyte to the Levant: A Brief History of the 389th Military Intelligence Battalion (Airborne)
The Battle of Lang Vei: An Operational Analysis
The Path to War in Panama: SOUTHCOM Operational Planning
A Tale of Two Teams: Tactical Loudspeaker Support in Operation JUST CAUSE
“Proving the Concept”: The 528th Support Battalion in Panama
Absolute Confidence: The 617th SOAD and 3rd Battalion, 7th SFG in Panama, 1989–1990
Volume: 14
Number: 3
Year: 2018
Operation WILLING SPIRIT (OWS): Setting Conditions for Operación JAQUE
The Ultimate Deception: Operación JAQUE
Joint SOF Integration—SDO, Bogotá
Total Immersion: Language, Culture, and the Colombian Military
A Different SORT of Mission: Special Operations Resuscitation Teams in Operation OBSERVANT COMPASS
Night Stalker Ingenuity: Taking the ‘Bad Guy’ off the Battlefield without Black Helicopters
Volume: 14
Number: 2
Year: 2018
Volume: 14
Number: 1
Year: 2018
Volume: 13
Number: 1
Year: 2017
Volume: 12
Number: 2
Year: 2016
Volume: 12
Number: 1
Year: 2016
Commando & Ranger Training, Part II: Preparing America’s Soldiers for War
Voice of the U.S. and Aggressors: The 2nd Loudspeaker & Leaflet Company
Setting the ‘Rising Sun’: The WWII service of Psywarrior Elizabeth McIntosh
Vietnam Casualty Resolution: Top U.S. Peace Priority
Major General John Henry Hilldring
Task Force Viking: Addition to the U.S. Army Special Operations Command Memorial Plaza
Volume: 11
Number: 1
Year: 2015
Volume: 10
Number: 1
Year: 2014
Psyche: The 301st Radio Broadcasting and Leaflet Group, Part I
The 6th Ranger Company: Look Sharp, Be Sharp, Stay Sharp
Kreuzotters on the Loose: The 5th Loudspeaker and Leaflet Company, 1951-1952
“We’re not in Kansas anymore”: The 41st Civil Affairs Company in Vietnam, Part II
Commando & Ranger Training: Preparing America’s Soldiers for War
Volume: 9
Number: 1
Year: 2013
Closing Acts: The Special Warfare Campaign at the End of the Korean War
The Army’s Guerrilla Command in Korea: Part II, The Rest of the Story
Operation SPITFIRE: No Lessons Learned
Major Jay D. Vanderpool: Advisor to the Philippine Guerrillas
Fight for the Northwestern Islands
Culture, Language & SPECIAL OPS: Recruiting & Training “TURNCOAT” Agents in Korea
CCRAK: The Combined Command for Reconnaissance Activities, Korea
E & E: West Coast Aircrew Recovery and the Guerrilla-Held Islands
A Combat First: Army SF Soldiers in Korea, 1953-1955
CIA Paramilitary Operations: Korea, 1950-1951
Military Recovery of Downed Airman in Eastern Korea
Volume: 8
Number: 2
Year: 2012
Guerrillas in Their Midst: An Introduction to Veritas Vol. 8, No. 2
A History of Resistance: The Origins of the North Korean Anti-Communist Guerrillas, 1945-1950
Creating an Army Guerrilla Command: The First Six Months, Part 1
John H. McGee: Soldier, Leader, Trainer
One Guerrilla’s Fight: Operating Behind Enemy Lines in the Korean War
TLO: Line-Crossers, Special Forces, and the "Forgotten War"
Working with what you have: The Challenges of Guerrilla Warfare on the Korean East Coast, 1951-1953
Facets of the U.S. Army Guerrilla Commands in Korea: A Photographic Overview
Volume: 8
Number: 1
Year: 2012
The Psywar in Korea: A Matter of Adjustment
Radio Pusan: “The Voice of South Korea.”
Flying High: The 4th MRBC Antenna Riggers
The 4th MRBC in Japan & Korea, 1951-1952
Full Spectrum: Strategic Psywar 1952: UN Psywar Aligns with Allied Bombing Campaign in Korea
Full Spectrum: Contrasts in Independence: March 1st and Plan PATRIOT
Full Spectrum: FEAF’s Humanitarian Bombing Campaign in Korea
Right Man for the Job: Colonel Charles H. Karlstad
We're Asking the Reds to SURRENDER-PLEASE! Collier’s, 13 December 1952
Herbert Avedon: Making Psywar a Career
The Psywar Center, Part II: Creation of the 10th Special Forces Group
Volume: 7
Number: 2
Year: 2011
Rebuilding Psywar: An Introduction
The 1st RB&L Advance Tackles Far East Command Priorities
Top Priority RB&L Missions: Radio Tokyo, VUNC, and KBS
Major General Robert A. McClure
U.S. Armed Forces Radio Stations in Postwar Japan and Korea
Volume: 7
Number: 1
Year: 2011
From a Standing Start: U.S. Army Psychological Warfare and Civil Affairs in the Korean War
Dick Zayac: A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
1st L&L in Korea, A Photographer’s Record
The "Proper Ganders" 1st Radio Broadcasting & Leaflet Group
Same Organization, Four Different Names: U.S. Army Civil Affairs in Korea 1950-1953
Volume: 6
Number: 2
Year: 2010
Rebirth of The Rangers: The Ranger Infantry Companies in Korea
“Cold Steel Third”: The 3rd Ranger Infantry Company
The 8th Ranger Company: “Black Devils” on Hill 628
From Hill 710 to “Big Switch”: Ranger Edmund J. Dubrueil, 1st Ranger Company
The 2nd Ranger Infantry Company: “Buffaloes” in Korea, 29 December 1950-19 May 1951
“That D****d Dam”: The 4th Ranger Infantry Company and the Hwachon Dam
“Travel Light and Freeze at Night”: The 5th Ranger Infantry Company (Airborne) in Korea
“When Men Don't Panic”: 2nd Ranger Infantry Company on Hill 581
Republic of Korea General Paik Sun-yup
A Highly Praised Luxury: The Ranger Infantry Companies in Korea
Volume: 6
Number: 1
Year: 2010
War in the Land of the Morning Calm: The Korean War
25 July 1950: Three Combat Forces
Born of Desperation: Early Special Operations in the Korean War
GHQ Raiders: Wonsan to Chang-to
Eighth Army Rangers: First in Korea
“Volunteering” for Combat: Loudspeaker Psywar in Korea
A Civil Affairs Pioneer: BG Crawford F. Sams, U.S. Army Medical Corps
The U.N. Occupation of P’yongyang
The Ivanhoe Security Force in Korea, 1950
A Giant Enters the Battle: Order of Battle of the UN and Chinese Communist Forces in Korea
"Do what You Can": UN Civil Assistance, Chinnamp'o, North Korea
Volume: 5
Number: 4
Year: 2009
Over the Hills and Far Away: The MARS Task Force
Civilian Irregular Defense Group: The First Years: 1961-1967
Born of Desperation: Early Special Operations in the Korean War
A Collective Effort: Army Special Operations Forces in Deh Rawod, Afghanistan
The Trojan Horse Badge: Distinctive Identity for the 10th Special Forces Group
A Clearer View of Psywar at Fort Riley & Fort Bragg, 1951-1952
Background to A Clearer View of Psywar at Fort Riley & Fort Bragg, 1951-1952
Volume: 5
Number: 3
Year: 2009
Battle Without Bullets: The 41st Civil Affairs Company in Vietnam, Part I: 1965-1967
VALIANT 41: 160th SOAR in Combat in Iraq
A Legacy of Support: The 528th Sustainment Brigade
From the Yak and Yeti to Port-au-Prince: ODA 155 Trains the Gurkhas
A History of the U.S. Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare School Insignia
Volume: 5
Number: 2
Year: 2009
Volume: 5
Number: 1
Year: 2009
Operation BOSTON: An OSS Combined Operation in the Indian Ocean
Beyond The Beach: The 2nd Rangers Fight Through Europe
American’s Foreign Legionnaires: The Lodge Act Soldiers - Part I
SORT(ing) Out the Casualties: The Special Operations Resuscitation Team in Afghanistan
Training the Trainers: Donald D. Blackburn and the 77th Special Forces Group (Airborne)
Biet Dong Quan: Vietnamese Rangers and their American Advisors
Volume: 4
Number: 4
Year: 2008
Introduction: Special Forces in Bolivia
Beggar on a Throne of Gold: A Short History of Bolivia
The 1960s: A Decade of Revolution
The Sixties in America: Social Strife and International Conflict
Che Guevarra: A False idol for Revolutionaries
The ‘Haves and Have Nots’: U.S. & Bolivian Order of Battle
The Bolivian Mission: Site Survey and MTT Mission Prep
“Today a New Stage Begins”: Che Guevara in Bolivia
“Welcome to Bolivia, MTT-BL 404-67X”
Field Sanitation: Practicing Medicine, and Civic Action in Bolivia
Turning the Tables on Che: The Training at La Esperanza
Che’s Posse: Divided, Attrited, and Trapped
The 2nd Ranger Battalion and the Capture of Che Guevara
The Special Forces Mission to Cochabamba, Bolivia 1967
The Aftermath: Che, the Late 1960s, and the Bolovian Mission
Volume: 4
Number: 3
Year: 2008
Volume: 4
Number: 2
Year: 2008
Volume: 4
Number: 1
Year: 2008
“Timing Is Everything”: A PW Escape in WWII
Operation BAAZ TSUKA: Task Force 31 Returns to the Panjwayi
Allied Long Range Penetration Groups for Burma: The Chindits, the Marauders, and the MARS Task Force
A Special Forces Model: OSS Detachment 101 in the Myitkina Campaign, Part I
Evolution of ARSOF Communications
Volume: 3
Number: 4
Year: 2007
Volume: 3
Number: 3
Year: 2007
Volume: 3
Number: 2
Year: 2007
Major Herbert R. Brucker, SF Pioneer, Part IV: SO Team HERMIT in France
“If you liked Beirut, you’ll love Mogadishu”: An Introduction to ARSOF in Somalia
“We Badly Needed Something to Do”: Glider Jumping at Camp Mackall, 1943
OSS Detachment 404: Operations in Southeast Asia
Volume: 3
Number: 1
Year: 2007
Key West: Home of ARSOF Underwater Operations
Resurrected Again: 95th Civil Affairs Brigade (Airborne)
El Paraiso and the War in El Salvador, Part I (1981–1983)
A Team Effort: Special Forces in Vietnam (June-December 1964)
Supplying the Resistance: OSS Logostics Support to Special Operations in Europe
Rangers in World War II: Part II, Sicily and Italy
The Ganders: Strategic PSYWAR in the Far East Part I: Introduction and Movement to the Far East
A Tale of Two Units: The 129th Assault Helicopter Company
Major Herbert R. Brucker, SF Pioneer, Part III: SOE Training & “Team HERMIT” into France
Volume: 2
Number: 4
Year: 2006
ARSOF in Colombia: Introduction
Colombia: A Special Relationship
Barbula and Old Baldy, March 1953: Colombia’s Heaviest Combat in Korea
Across the Pacific to War: The Colombian Navy in Korea, 1951-1955
Colombian Lancero School Roots
Plan Lazo: Evaluation and Execution
Forty Years of Insurgency: Colombia’s Main Opposition Groups
Colombian Special Operations Forces
Plan Colombia and Plan Patriota: The Evolution of Colombia’s National Strategy
U.S. Forces: The Major Command Structure
“Conducting the Orchestra”: AOB 740 in Colombia
“Who taught these guys to shoot like Chuck Norris?” ODA 746 in Tolemaida
“There is a Word I Need to Learn”: ODA 741 and Colombian National Police Training at Espinal
Special Forces in Larandia: ODA 753 and the CERTE
Blue Helmets to Maroon Berets: Batallon Colombia in the Suez and Sinai, 1956-1958, 1982-2006
Volume: 2
Number: 3
Year: 2006
Reminiscences of Detachment A, Berlin 1982–1984
Unique Support for a Unique Unit: The Service Battalion of the First Special Service Force
The SOD-JF in Iraq: A “Total Force” Success Story
Herbert R. Brucker, SF Pioneer, Part II: Pre-WWII–OSS Training 1943
The Failures of Detachment 101 and its Evolution into a Combined Arms Team
Everyone Can Take Pride in This Fight: ODA 163 in Afghanistan
Rangers in World War II: Part I, The Formation and Early Days
Volume: 2
Number: 2
Year: 2006
Soldier-Sailors in Korea: JACK Maritime Operations
Catch as Catch Can: Special Forces and Line Crossers in the Korean War
Task Force 160 in Operation URGENT FURY
Lieutenant General William P. Yarborough
Amputee Soccer and Prosthetics: El Salvador Scores National PSYOP Victory
Logistical Support to Task Force Viking: Task Force Support in Northern Iraq
One Piece of the Puzzle: Setting up Civil Affairs in Gardez, Afghanistan
Volume: 2
Number: 1
Year: 2006
Airborne Signal: The 112th (Special Operations) Signal Battalion in World War II
From Ledo to Leeches: The 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional)
The End Run of Galahad: The Battle of Myitkyina
The 2nd Ranger Infantry Company: “Buffaloes” in Korea
SF Detachment 39: SFLE in Korea
Los Artefactos Explosivos Improvisados: Improvised Explosive Devices in El Salvador
Night Stalkers in the Philippines: Tragedy and Triumph in Balikatan 02-1
Out of Turkey: The 528th Special Operations Support Battalion
Infiltrating Wadi al Khirr Airfield
Order from Chaos: The 422 CA Battalon in OIF
Volume: 1
Number: 2
Year: 2005
The OSS Maritime Unit on the Arakan coast of Burma
Prisoner for a Day: A First Special Force Soldier’s Short-lived POW Experience
Of Mules and Men: The 612th and 613th Field Artillery Battalions (Pack) in Burma
The UN Occupation of P’yongyang
Helicopters in the Korean War: The Rescue of Virginia 1
Dick Zayac: A Picture is Worth A Thousand Words
Conventional Excellence: The 528th Quartermaster Battalion in Vietnam
Volume: 1
Number: 1
Year: 2005
Factors Affecting ARSOF Preparation for Operation Iraqi Freedom
“Alarm Red!” Providing Signal Support in Kuwait
Getting There is Half the Battle: Operation UGLY BABY
Operation VIKING HAMMER: 3/10 SFG against the Ansar Al-Islam
Value Added: A/1/19th SFG in Iraq
North by Northwest: Combat Service Support in Northern Iraq
SOF and the Media during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM
Reaching Out: Psychological Operations in Operation IRAQI FREEDOM
Getting the Message Out: Tactical PSYOP in Operation IRAQI FREEDOM
Objective Beaver: The Search for the Elusive Smoking Gun
The Jump at Objective Serpent: 3/75th Rangers in Iraq
“The Beer’s On Us!”: Little Bird Support at Hadithah Dam
Holding Back the Flood at Hadithah Dam
Team Tank: Armor in Support of Special Operations
This is What You Signed Up For: The Attack on Ayn Sifni
The Battle for Debecka Crossroads
ODA 542: Working with the Free Iraqi Fighters
HACC Baghdad: Civil Affairs in Action
Flash to Bang Time—Twenty-two Hours: The 2nd Ranger Battalion’s Assault on the Rawah Terrorist Camp