Both the Korean War and the Vietnam War hold a special significance in the history of the Navy SEALs. That is because these two wars marked the official formation of this elite force under the US Navy as a response to the call of then-President John F. Kennedy for the United States military to [...]

In early 1963, the CIA commenced covert SEAL operations aimed at ambushing supplies and snatch missions to locate and capture NVA officers. Poor intelligence plagues these early missions which on the whole were not successful. The SEALs acquired their own intelligence gathering and collation ability which led to intelligence becoming far more useful and being [...]