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Iran WMD Raid: Inside JSOC's Most Challenging Mission Yet
For more than three months, a Joint Special Operations Command task force has been standing by in the Middle East, prepared to execute what some insiders say would likely be the most dangerous mission the command has ever been assigned: rec...
F-15E pilot downed over Iran had been shot down a month prior
F-15E weapon systems officer suffered a parachute “malfunction” when he punched out
The pilot of the F-15E Strike Eagle shot down April 3 over Iran was also the pilot of one of the three F-15Es shot down by a Kuwaiti F/A-18 in a friendly f...
The High Side Crew Talks JSOC spies, and more in Recent Podcast Appearances
Hey folks, hope you’ve been enjoying the recent articles on The High Side. We’ve got more coming at you this summer. In the meantime, Sean Naylor, Zach Dorfman, and myself (Jack) have appeared on a couple podcasts recently that we wanted to...
The school of hard NOCs gets tougher for JSOC
The growing challenge of putting operatives under commercial cover
When the elite forces of Joint Special Operations Command sprang into action in April to rescue a downed F-15 weapon systems officer in Iran, it created countless headlines...
FBI 'spooked' by sophisticated theft of agricultural drones in New Jersey
The crop sprayers could be extremely dangerous in terrorist hands
The sophisticated theft of 15 crop-spraying drones last month in New Jersey has the FBI worried as experts warn of “ridiculously bad” consequences and “a potential nightmare...
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Sean has been reporting on national security for more than three decades, including 23 years at Army Times, stints at Foreign Policy and Yahoo News, and contract and freelance work for The New York Times, NBC News, Newsweek and Intelligence Online.
Jack served in 3rd Ranger Battalion and 5th Special Forces Group and is an investigative journalist who has reported from Syria, Iraq, and the Philippines. He is the author of Murphy's Law and co-host of The Team House.
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