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Delta Force

Special Forces to disband the Commanders-In extremis-Force (CIF)

March 5, 2020 by Jack Murphy

I’ve probably been asked to weigh in on the decision to disband the Special Forces CIF companies about ten times today. Apparently, the final decision is awaiting SECDEF approval at the moment. I wasn’t going to wade into this one but since I’ve been asked, I’ll offer a few thoughts. I’m going to caveat this […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: CIF, counter-terrorism, CRE, CRF, Delta Force, Green Beret, JSOC, Rangers, Special Forces

NITRO ZEUS: The Plan to Topple the Iranian Regime

June 17, 2019 by Jack Murphy

Night fell over the desert. U.S. Air Force aircraft soared overhead, lowering their ramps and emptying their cargo into the night sky. Vehicles were heavy dropped on pallets while operators assigned to 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta parachuted out into the darkness, conducting a military free-fall jump. Hitting their assembly area below, the operators quickly got […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: CIA, clandestine, covert, Delta Force, Dev, DIA, HDBT, Iraq, Israel, Jack Murphy, JPOA, JSOC, Libya, Marines, MEK, NITRO ZEUS, NTS, Oman, operator, Rangers, Saudi Arabia, SEAL, SEAL Team Six, SFOD, SOCOM, Special Forces, Special Operations Forces, Tarhuna, THAAD, title 10, title 50, Trump, UAE, underground combat, WMD

TigerSwan: Private security contractors as agents provocateur at Standing Rock

February 27, 2018 by Jack Murphy

It was early afternoon on October 11th, 2016 when TigerSwan’s program manager, retired Delta Force Sergeant Major John Porter, met with Silverton’s owner, Carl Clifton, inside a hangar at the Mandan Municipal Airport. The hangar was initially used by Silverton security as a clandestine office for their intelligence cell that collected information on the protesters, […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Dakota Access Pipeline, DAPL, Delta Force, Energy Transfer Partners, Jack Murphy, James Reese, John Porter, Rangers, Silverton, sofrep, Special Forces, TigerSwan

An obscure but revealing novel about Delta Force

September 18, 2017 by Jack Murphy

In the publishing world’s search for authenticity, they often procure the names of writers who have been there and done that, but generally being a great soldier does not make one a great writer. Because of this, we end up with a slew of ghost-written mish-mashes of fictional memoirs and non-fictional novels. However, a relatively […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: A Mission for Delta, CAG, CIA, Cold War, Delta, Delta Force, Iran-Contra, KGB, L.H. Burruss, MACV-SOG, Mike Force, Special Forces, Special Operations, Tier One, Vietnam

The birth of American counter-terrorism: the untold story of Blue Light and Delta Force

June 19, 2017 by Jack Murphy

On a dark night in 1977, a dozen Green Berets exited a C-130 aircraft, parachuting into a very different type of war. Aircraft hijackings had become almost commonplace, to the point that Johnny Carson would tell jokes about the phenomena on television. But it was no laughing matter for the Department of Defense, who realized […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: 5th Special Forces Group, Blue Light, counter-terrorism, Delta Force, EDRE, Entebbe, Green Berets, HALO, Ranger Battalion, Rangers, RECOM

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