This weekend’s U.S. Navy SEAL raid on a terrorist seaside stronghold in Somalia exhibited the force’s traditional calling card: coming from the sea. It’s one of the lessons SEALs learn early in the chilly waters off San Diego, where all candidates go through initial…Read More…
Dick Couch Answers Questions about; The Sheriff of Ramadi
What inspired you to write The Sheriff of Ramadi? I became interested in The Sheriff when I learned of the intensity of the fighting in Ramadi/al-Anbar, and that the SEALs were taking to the streets to fight with the Army and the Marines. This…Read More…
CNN live interview on how the Navy SEALs got Bin Laden – with Dick Couch
Ret. Navy seal speaks on how bin Laden kill mission unfolded (CNN)–In the dark of night, U.S. helicopters approached a high-walled compound in Pakistan on a mission to capture or kill one of the world’s most notorious terrorist leaders. Read this article and view…Read More…
Interview with Dick Couch on Small Wars Journal.
SOF, COIN, and the Question of Host Nation Viability: An Interview with Dick Couch – by Robert Tollast Few writers have a better knowledge of special operations over the past 40 years than Dick Couch, who graduated from Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL (BUD/S) in 1969…Read More…
60 minute interview with Brian Lamb on C-Span
BRIAN LAMB, HOST, Q&A: Dick Coach (ph), what is a SEAL? DICK COUCH, AUTHOR AND FORMER NAVY SEAL: Well, a SEAL is a member of our special operations community. The SEALs stands for sea, air or land. And they’re a maritime proponent of…Read More…
Act of Revenge
What happens when a Navy SEAL comes home from war with a mission. Garrett Walker is such a SEAL. He is also to his core, a warrior. For the last decade and a half he’s been continuously at war—combat rotation after combat rotation. He’s…Read More…
Always Faithful, Always Forward
When the new United States Special Operations Command was formed in 1986, they gathered special operations components from the Army, Navy, and Air Force. Those ground- and maritime combat components included the Army Special Forces, the Navy SEALs, and the Rangers of the 75th…Read More…
Sua Sponte
Army Rangers are not born. They are made—or as the subtitle would suggest, forged. The modern 75th Ranger Regiment represents the culmination of 250 years of American soldiering. As a fighting force with our nation’s oldest and deepest tradition, the Regiment traces its origins…Read More…
The Warrior Elite (2nd Edition)
In 1999, I joined SEAL Class 228 and followed them start to finish. I was their graduation speaker. During the journey of Class 228, while I was a writer and only auditing the course, the experience took me back to my own trial as…Read More…
Chosen Soldier
In combating terror, America can no longer depend on its conventional military superiority and the use of sophisticated technology. More than ever, we need men like those of the Army Special Forces–the legendary Green Berets. Shortly after I wrote The Warrior Elite, I was…Read More…
