Jack Murphy

Jack Murphy

Green Beret / Army Ranger
Jack served as a Sniper and Team Leader in 3rd Ranger Battalion and as a Senior Weapons Sergeant on a Military Free Fall team in 5th Special Forces Group. Having left the military in 2010, he graduated from Columbia with a BA in political science. Murphy is the author of Reflexive Fire, Target Deck, Direct Action, and Gray Matter Splatter. His memoir, "Murphy's Law" is due for a 2019 release and can be pre-ordered now.

Meet America’s think-tank fellows who support jihad

Elizabeth O’Bagy, a young researcher with the Institute for the Study of War, helped bring America to the brink of war in 2013. Making fraudulent claims of having obtained a PhD, she was a fervent supporter of military intervention in Syria after she allegedly met with Syrian rebel groups. Her public testimony was fawned over […]

How technology hurts the Special Forces mission

There is something about American culture, we love high tech.  I mean, we really love our gadgets.  Tesla death rays that fry terrorists into Kentucky Fried Chicken?  Sign us up!  Americans love defense technology, from laser guided bombs, to night vision goggles, to more futuristic things like the so-called Iron Man suit.  With the development […]

SOFREP attends the Commander in Chief Forum with Clinton and Trump

The Commander in Chief forum, hosted by IAVA and broadcast by MSNBC, promised to be an event in which military veterans would be able to question presidential candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton about veteran’s issues and military affairs.  Instead, it was a canned, staged event in which television host Matt Laurer did most of […]

Range day with Italian Counter-Pirates!

We finished the day by trying to shoot our pistols long range. All of us managed to hit the 100m target, a few hit the 200m target, but only Dennis nailed the 300m target and did it on his first attempt!

Gray Matter Splatter released TODAY!

“Ultimately, Jack Murphy has continued to advance the Action & Adventure pocket novel by pushing the envelope on tomorrow’s threats and military innovations to bring back the mass market paperback experience. The culmination of characters, setting, plot, and technology set the bar for authors looking to give their readers an entirely new experience.” -JT Patten, […]

Why was a folded ISIS flag placed on the casket of a fallen Delta operator?

In a recent article titled, “Inside the Real US Ground War on ISIS” by Mike Giglio, new details about Delta Force‘s collaboration with Kurdish counter-terrorism units is detailed, including the Hawija prison rescue in which Delta operator Master Sergeant Joshua Wheeler was killed. The well researched article mentions Wheeler’s bravery under fire and the admiration […]

China to begin train, advise, assist mission in Syria to back Assad Regime

A few years ago, relatively early on in the war against ISIS, I was smuggled into Northern Syria along a PKK re-supply route.  Taking a small inflatable boat across the river which acted as the border between Syria and Iraq, my first stop in the Kurdish held areas of Syria (known as Rojava) was a […]