Authorities are still investigating why the man was traveling with explosives
Navy SEALs
Two Years After bin Laden Raid, the Future of Special Operations
The raid that took out Osama bin Laden two years ago Wednesday was only a few minutes old when it nearly fell to pieces.
We’ve all heard the story: one of the helicopters lost lift and crashed into an animal pen before Navy …
BattlelandSpecial Operations
Operation Neptune Spear: The New Textbook for Special Operators
One year removed from the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, hundreds of hours of programing and print pages are being devoted to to telling us what it all means. In this week’s issue of TIME, journalist Peter Bergen and historian …
BattlelandSomalia
Rescue in Somalia: SEALs Strike Again
Even as President Obama publicly praised the Navy’s SEALs Tuesday night for killing Osama bin Laden, a team of the elite war-fighters was wrapping up the daring rescue of a pair of international mine-clearers, including an American woman, who had been held for three months by Somali thugs.
U.S. troops rescued Jessica Buchanan …
BattlelandPakistan
The Pall of Confusion Surrounding bin Laden’s Death
Even when the U.S. government feels like bragging about a military success, it takes several days for the most elementary outline to surface. Now, imagine it’s a secret raid involving sensitive sources and methods that the U.S. doesn’t want to divulge. Pile on top of that a senior White House official a little too eager to spin a …
BattlelandPakistan
Bin Laden: Betrayed By His Face, His DNA…And His Wife
Senior U.S. officials say the U.S. government used several sophisticated methods to confirm that the tall man Navy SEALs killed early Monday in Abbottabad, Pakistan, was, indeed, Osama bin Laden:
1. CIA experts compared known photos of bin Laden with photographs of the corpse, and concluded they were 95% sure the dead man was bin
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