Corporal Charles House led his Marine Recon patrol through thick undergrowth under the jungle canopy forty feet above. The country was Vietnam and the year was 1968. Team Dublin City had been inserted three days prior, North of Phu Bai to reconnoiter the area for signs of Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army troop buildups, […]

Brett Jones, a former Navy SEAL who served with SEAL Teams 8 and 10 as well as working as a CIA contractor for 13 years, is now involved with an ambitious project to raise awareness about veteran homelessness.  The film is called “Only Easy Day” and is currently seeking additional funding to finish the production. […]

This morning, I have heard the voices from the Special Operations community, along with many of our readers, loud and clear. They are angry and disappointed that SOFREP chose to publish helmet camera footage from the ambush in Niger back in October in which two U.S. Special Forces soldiers and two support soldiers killed. We […]

It was early afternoon on October 11th, 2016 when TigerSwan’s program manager, retired Delta Force Sergeant Major John Porter, met with Silverton’s owner, Carl Clifton, inside a hangar at the Mandan Municipal Airport. The hangar was initially used by Silverton security as a clandestine office for their intelligence cell that collected information on the protesters, […]

Monday night we had our annual SOFREP party in Las Vegas the night prior to the SHOT show. Subscribers can RSVP ahead of time and we had an open bar from 6 p.m. until sometime around 2 a.m. when we left. Don’t ask me what the bill was … these events are a great opportunity […]

The AKP-MHP fascist rule in Turkey has begun the air and ground invasion operation against the Kurdish town of Afrin. This comes after months of threatening and targeting campaign. Turkey wants to destroy the democratic system which was established on the principle of brotherhood of Kurdish, Arab and Turkmen peoples. There are two main reasons […]

This Friday will see the release of “12 Strong” about the U.S. Special Forces soldiers who spearheaded the invasion of Afghanistan after the events of September 11th, 2001. The Jerry Bruckheimer production was directed by Nicolai Fuglsig and stars Chris Hemsworth as a fictional Special Forces Captain, likely a composite character such as those seen […]

In recent months, the behavior of Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein and the allegations made against him by dozens of women has taken America by storm and set off a chain reaction of women coming forward to speak about workplace sexual assault, sexual harassment, and the boys club that perpetuates this type of bad behavior. While […]

On May 23rd, 4th Light Reaction Company operators alongside a company of Scout-Rangers quietly approached the hideout of terrorist leader Isnilon Hapilon.  The Philippine armed services had been conducting a long-term surveillance operation on the terrorist safe house, located among a small cluster of homes along a road on the outskirts of Marawi.  The U.S. Special Forces-trained […]

Over the years, many have lamented the end of Special Forces, foreseeing the destruction of the Green Berets, a slipping of training and selection standards, and plenty of general navel-gazing about how it “use to be.”  Hell, I remember buying a copy of Soldier of Fortune magazine in the PX at Fort Bragg over a […]

Every red-blooded American, in particular military veterans, has an affinity for Frank Castle.  Born out of the pages of Marvel comics, Frank Castle returned home from war only to have his family viciously murdered by the mafia.  Declaring a one man war on crime, Frank Castle became the Punisher.  In the new Netflix series, Castle’s […]

Head on over to Amazon and throw down the .99 cents to see Six Days, a movie that depicts the British Special Air Service’s (SAS) response to the Iranian embassy crisis in London back in 1980.  Counter-terrorism was still in an embryonic stage but the SAS was years ahead of where the U.S. military was, […]