The Last A-Team: Special Forces Aren't Special Anymore

Published: 6/10/2026

A New Vision for Special Forces

Published: 6/10/2026

Why Green Berets Can't Stop Asking Who They Are

Published: 6/10/2026

Operationally Detached: Why Decentralization, Not Consolidation, Is the Future of U.S. Army Special Forces

Published: 6/10/2026

Visible vs. Valuable: Why Restructuring U.S. Special Forces Won't Fix a Failure of Perception

Published: 6/10/2026

The Special Forces Identity Crisis and Rethinking All of Special Operations

Authored by:

Retired Lt. Col. Greg Banner

Published: 2/9/2026

Who Are the Green Berets Supposed to Be? Revisiting the Special Forces Identity Crisis

Authored by:

Greg E. Metzgar

Published: 8/5/2025

Mission or Meaning? Rethinking the Identity Crisis in U.S. Army Special Forces

Authored by:

Siamak T. Naficy, PhD, and W5 Maurice "Duc" DuClos

Published: 7/1/2025

Special Forces Does Not Have an Identity Crisis, SOF Has a Special Forces Identity Problem: A Response to Colonel Croot

Authored by:

David Shell

Published: 5/16/2025

There is an Identity Crisis in Special Forces: Who are the Green Berets Supposed to Be?

Authored by:

Col. Edward C. Croot

Published: 12/11/2024