In a video interview, the mother of Abu Tayeh claims that the Jordanian government gave him a promotion and a medal after he murdered three US Special Forces soldiers at King Faisal Air Base.  The Green Berets were stopped at the gate checkpoint outside the base where Abu Tayeh was in charge of running the […]

Years ago I was having a conversation with a friend who, at the time, worked at ABC news.  He told me that they never run anything that negative about Russia because the last time they did, the network was kicked out of the country for like seven years.  They learned their lesson and played nice […]

Years later, when he read a newspaper article that said Beckwith had a sign on his desk at his Texas-based security company which read, “kill ’em all and let God sort ’em out” he had been disappointed in the man he now considered his mentor.  He wrote him a scathing letter, and one of the […]

It was such a fine line, this difference between a legal and an illegal killing.  In the shadowy world of espionage and counter-terrorism, the line was even more difficult to define.  Yes, the men and one of the women under his command had already killed more than two dozen people since the operation began in […]

I was in my senior year of high school on September 11th 2001.  It was another morning in computer class.  Mr. Greer came in and said that he didn’t want to upset anybody but that a plane had just crashed into the World Trade Center.  We figured it was some kind of large scale accident. […]

SOFREP friend and occasional writer Sam Faddis is embarking on his latest mission.  This time it isn’t classified intelligence work in Turkey or para-military operations in Iraq, but a run for the United States Senate.  You can learn more about Sam and where he stands on the issues at his website.  Sam plans to focus […]

Robert Gordt joined the Kurdish YPG militia in March of 2017 and was martyred near Raqqa on July 5th.  Robert (or Rob or Bobby as some knew him) had a long history of political activism stretching back to the Occupy Wall Street movement in 2011.  While the first wave of foreign volunteers who traveled to […]

As the White House and the Kim regime play a game of chicken with each other the media is once again ramping up for a full-scale freak out about North Korea.  Remember the last one a few months back?  Yeah, nothing happened, just like every other time.  There are some new and important developments this […]

In the event that the balloon goes up on the Korean peninsula, U.S. Special Forces has a secret weapon in South Korea that has been poised and ready to roll since shortly after the Korean War.  Special Forces Detachment Korea (SFDK) has made a long-term quiet contribution to strategic military-to-military relations between America and South […]

On August 29th Abbas Antar lost his life in a small village north of Tal Afar called Afgani in what has been described as a friendly fire incident with the Iraqi police.  This follows on the heels of another Tal Afar ISWAT member who was killed by a ISIS sniper in Mosul recently.  With Tal […]

A new white paper published by the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments has been released about America’s involvement in irregular warfare for the past 250 years.  The report was written by David Johnson who has followed up his 24-year-Army career by teaching at Georgetown and West Point.  The report concludes that in many ways […]

Many people don’t understand why universities include a core curriculum of mandatory study, one that usually includes study of classic western art and literature.  This came about in the aftermath of World War I and was reinforced by the horrors of World War Two.  The western world had come perilously close to destroying ourselves, our […]