Chinese students sent abroad can be used to gather industrial intelligence information and to monitor those who China’s PRC view as subversive.

Who is responsible for the 2003 invasion of Iraq? Don’t say, “Thanks Obama” for this one.

What went wrong in Ramadi?  ISIS capitalized on a incoming stand storm to conceal their advance, which included the use of VBIEDs followed up by machine gun fire, one of their mainstay TTPs to kick off an assault.  Using weather to mask troop movements is warfare 101 and should not have come as a surprise.

Hey Team Room members, apologies for taking so long to get Jaeger: At War with Denmark’s Elite Special Forces up on here for you guys.  We promise that all SOFREP ebooks will be made available to our Team Room members, no double charging you guys for additional material we put out.  So on that note, […]

MERCENARY!  The imagery is painted in our psyche from books, films, and even popular music.  It is the image of the lone wolf merc deep in the Congo with a rusty AK-47, running from the law back home, and desperate to end his down and out streak with a hand full of blood diamonds in […]

While we at SOFREP are big proponents of Special Forces and their Foreign Internal Defense mission, we should do a better job of scrutinizing who we train, why we train them, and what we train them to do.  All too often we train those who can’t be trusted and train those who can in US […]

Seeking to secure their near abroad and fearing NATO encirclement, the Russians are simply acting in what they perceive to be their national interests.

Hersh’s recent work about the raid which killed Osama Bin Laden is the most thorough and accurate we have yet seen. Read why we think so.

ISIS seeks to take credit for any kind of attack, or act of god, to give an exaggerated impression of how important they really are.

Let’s hope that de-radicalization programs in countries like Britain have more to do with flipping former ISIS members into intelligence assets rather than letting them skate by and reintegrate into a society they hate.

Is it time for us to hoist the Jolly Roger and sanction the first American pirates in 200 years?

Saudi Arabia enters the fray in Yemen.