Why a movement to contact mission turned into such a travesty is being hotly debated behind the scenes, and a number of Ranger officers are expected to lose their jobs over the multitude of failures and poor planning.

Americans do need to know what really happened on 9/11 without the conspiracy theories, without the political spin, and without anyone softening the edges for us.

Force 12 is calling all manufacturers who want want their products considered for review on SOFREP, SpecialOperations.com, The Loadout Room, and others.

Gray Matter Splatter is the 4th book in the series about Deckard who is a former CIA para-military officer turned mercenary but it is written so that anyone can pick up the book and start right here without having to read the three previous books. However, SOFREP Team Room members can read the previous Deckard novel right here on the website for free.

Sandwiched between ISIS held and Kurdish held Syria, lays a city under siege.  Manbij is a medium sized city south of Kobani and North West of the ISIS capital city of Raqqa.  While many civilians have already fled the city, thousands more are trapped inside.  With coalition airstrikes backing up the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces […]

During the 1980s, the South African Recces had a lion for an official mascot who was even made an honorary Recce.

America has some choices to make about our future counterterrorism strategy, and we’d better start coming up with answers now.

Today Nick Irving took a few moments of his time to answer some questions from his upcoming book “Way of the Reaper” which is a follow-up to the New York Times Best Seller “The Reaper” which chronicled one of Nick’s deployments to Afghanistan as a sniper with 3rd Ranger Battalion. 1. “The Reaper” went on […]

After careful analysis, we will see that these attacks are not at all sophisticated or well planned, and this, in fact, a lot scarier than if they were.

SOFREP reached out to Channon and he told us that Alan does in fact work with him and the New Earth Army. He also said that Alan is free to speak his mind as he sees fit.

As Turkish military helicopter gunships rain lead down on buildings belonging to their own intelligence service, a curious character waits in Saylorburg, Pennsylvania. Fethullah Gulen is a former imam and political figure living in exile in the United States.  While Israeli newspapers have recently decried him as an anti-semite, others have described him as a […]

Using UNCLOS (United National Convention on the Law of the Sea) the Philippines claimed that the West Philippine Sea fell with in their exclusive economic zone.