Author: Frumentarius

I guess they were not kidding at the Team when they said a lot of SEALs do not make it through the background check and polygraph, and I am better off staying in the Teams.

Here at SOFREP, we collectively strive to be, and consider ourselves, a largely apolitical organization in that we do not often come down on one or the other side of the usually contentious left-right debate in America. True, we will occasionally weigh in on politically sensitive matters—see here, and here, and here—but, generally, we like […]

It has been almost 14 years since the attacks of 9/11/2001, and during that time, America’s intelligence professionals at the CIA, mostly from the Counterterrorism Center and the Near East Division — though from the other Divisions within the National Clandestine Service, as well — have been on the front lines of the War on […]

In CIA Director John Brennan’s recent speech and Q&A session at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), as well as in his recent address to agency personnel at CIA headquarters, the head of America’s leading human intelligence agency discussed the way forward for the agency, the grand restructuring of its workforce, and how it operates against the […]

During his recent speech and accompanying question and answer session at the Council on Foreign Relations, CIA Director John Brennan made a seemingly rare public admission regarding the way the agency handles detentions and interrogations of terrorism suspects.  Brennan stated the CIA had overcome the recent termination of its enhanced interrogation program by returning to […]

By now, most SOFREP readers, and indeed, most Americans, are familiar with the story of ‘Lone Survivor,’ subject of a bestselling book and popular Hollywood movie. For those who are not, it’s essentially about a four-man SEAL element in Afghanistan in 2005 whose mission was compromised, forcing them to evade a large Taliban force pursuing […]

The denouement in the regrettable tragedy of David Petraeus was not a blockbuster, fireworks-filled, epic courtroom scene as some expected (hoped?) it would be. Rather, it was a whimper, a quiet legal resignation, and a tactical surrender to the legal forces arrayed against the former celebrated general and CIA director. One of the country’s more […]

According to an article in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, quoting an emailed statement from former Navy SEAL Eric Greitens, Greitens is considering a run for statewide political office in Missouri. Speculation among Missouri political types is that Greitens is considering a run for Missouri governor, though the former SEAL’s emailed statement did not specify to […]

If you are considering going to BUD/S and becoming a SEAL, this series of videos is an absolute must to acquire an insightful view into the mindset of guys in the Teams.

Recent comments on Twitter and on SOFREP.com’s Facebook page have spurred some of us here at the site to wonder if we are experiencing first-hand a Russian covert action program to counter-message what the Russian government sees as articles and opinions hostile to Russian interests. Recent SOFREP articles by Brandon Webb and Eric Jones, for […]

Let me put the bottom line up front on this one: We should not continue to dog-pile NBC Nightly News managing editor and host Brian Williams for his exaggerated war story that has caused such a furor this past week, and has led to the anchor’s pulling himself off the air until NBC completes its […]

If you read some of the leading news agency articles on President Obama’s recent official visit to India, you might be forgiven for thinking that the point of it all was to model Michelle Obama’s latest wardrobe choices, or to celebrate a ‘bromance’ between the U.S. president and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. After all, […]