Afghan War Blog

Special Forces More Active in Afg?  A recent news report says the U.S. Special Forces could be playing a larger role in Afghanistan. The ...

JSOC Officers Moving Up. It appears that the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) crowd is doing well in the U.S. Army. General Votel,...

ANASF Trains ALP Recruit SOF and Helmand Province. The fight for Helmand province is still ongoing despite the end of the fighting seas...

Gen Votel to CENTCOM?.  The Internet continues to spread the word that the current USSOCOM commander is on the short list to succeed Gener...

Afghan Intelligence Chief Resigns. The chief of the Afghan spy agency - National Directorate of Security or NDS - has resigned amid polic...

VSO, Gant, Water, Crops, and COIN. One writer, Doyle Quiggle, manages to combine a variety of topics (although related) into an essay on ...

Behind the Scenes. Barbara Star, CNN Pentagon Correspondent, interviews General Votel (cdr of USSOCOM). Votel chats about SOF successes, ...

Seymour Hersh , an investigative journalist, author and contributor to The New Yorker , has accused General McCrystal and others of the Spec...

The secretive special operations task force - called JSOC - is reportedly targeting the Haqqani Network in Afghanistan. Read a recent news ...