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.

SOFREP Exclusive: Details of Obama’s Authorization of SOF Deployment to Syria

Today President Obama has authorized the deployment of US Special Operations Forces to Syria.  The strategic signaling has been present for at least a month so this comes as no surprise to our readers.  The covert action programs the CIA and SOF ran out of Turkey to arm and train the Free Syrian Army (FSA) were […]

SOFREP Exclusive: Boots on the Ground with the Kurdish Peshmerga

Check out the trailer for SOFREP’s upcoming mini-documentary series in which I rolled out with the Peshmerga on an offensive against ISIS outside Kirkuk, examined Turkish airstrikes in Qandil, and interviewed Americans serving alongside Kurdish forces.  Below you will see some footage of the Peshmerga advance into ISIS territory, all while IED’s were going off […]

The Pentagon’s Shame in Afghanistan

Believe it or not the U.S. Army is now running de facto top cover for child abusers in Afghanistan while drumming out soldiers who speak out against the so-called cultural practice.