The OSS Returns

After 81 years. Maybe Trump is getting ready to dissolve the CIA.



Built by some of WWII’s most visionary minds, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) carried American resolve into the hardest places and against the most determined enemies. It embodied the determination of Americans who believed they could achieve the impossible.

Today, after 81 years, the OSS returns.

Our operators deserve a voice equal to the burden placed upon their shoulders. @ASWAndersonSOF advocated for a Secretariat for Special Operations that operates in both name and function, setting the pace, driving coordination, and ensuring SOF has the resources needed.

This redesignation strengthens SOF representation within @DeptofWar and reaffirms America’s commitment to the forces entrusted with the Nation’s most demanding missions.

Read more here
media.defense.gov/2026/Nov/06/20…

In WWII, the Office of Strategic Services was forged on a defining American truth: when the Nation is tested, Americans rise, endure, and prevail.

The men and women of the OSS went into the night with no promise of safety, no guarantee of return, and no expectation of praise. They went because their country called. They went because the cause was just. They went because Americans do not turn from the hard road when duty points the way.

That legacy lives today in America’s Special Operations Forces. They carry the Nation’s hardest missions into the world’s most dangerous places, often without recognition and always with extraordinary responsibility.

Today, I am pleased to announce that Secretary Hegseth has signed a pivotal memorandum enabling the ASW(SO/LIC) to fully exercise its statutory authority in line with Congress’s intent by elevating the office to Under Secretary of War equivalence and restoring its name to the Office of Strategic Services (OSS).

This action is a pledge that those sent into the hardest places, entrusted with the gravest responsibilities, and called upon when all else has failed will have a voice equal to the burden placed upon their shoulders. They will be given the resources, authority, and support required to prepare, to endure, and to prevail.

In honoring our Special Operators, we honor the courage, sacrifice, and unbreakable American spirit that has carried this Nation through its hardest hours and will carry us forward still.

Read the full release here:
war.gov/News/Releases/…

BOOM: Secretary Pete Hegseth just posted "THE OSS IS BACK."

He's moving to elevate special operations by renaming the top civilian office after the World War II Office of Strategic Services, the legendary unit that took the fight behind enemy lines.

His memo calls it "time for a BOLD, FOUNDATIONAL CHANGE."

It directs $45 MILLION and about 100 billets to the effort. A full undersecretary still needs Congress.

The best warriors on the planet should have a real voice at the Pentagon, and finally they will.

Our operators earned a seat at that table. We stand with them.

BREAKING: SecWar Pete Hegseth just BROUGHT BACK the legendary WWII Office of Strategic Services, the elite spy-and-sabotage unit that gave BIRTH TO THE CIA, 81 years after Truman shut it down

"The OSS is back."

The renamed special ops office gets at least $45 MILLION a year and 100 dedicated billets

Hegseth keeps getting targeted and he refuses to slow down!

Hegseth's memo puts its civilian chief on EQUAL FOOTING with the Army, Navy and Air Force secretaries.

He's also asking Congress to make it a permanent Under Secretary of Strategic Services.