The rumor mill is cranking away at full speed as academics speculate and North Korean exiles pontificate, but SOFREP got the inside scoop on where this elusive dictator has been the last few weeks.

The following is an excerpt from Violence of Action: The Untold Stories of the 75th Ranger Regiment in the War on Terror. I was fortunate to be able to read an advanced copy, and there is nothing else out there like this book. Aside from a few news stories and a couple self-published memoirs, there […]

Phonies are everywhere these days and being a CIA fraud is the best of all because you can always claim that your background is Majestic-12 super-top-secret.  “You see, I was a NOC, so all my records are sealed.  That’s why I can’t provide a single shred of evidence to back up my claims.”  Being fake CIA […]

Here’s the transcript of a recent interview I did with Rebecca Frankel, author of War Dogs: Tales of Canine Heroism, History, and Love. Tell us about the piece that you wrote for Foreign Policy that inspired this book. What moved you to expand on “Rebecca’s War Dog of the Week” and bring it to the larger public? […]

While America is deploying soldiers to West Africa to help contain Ebola, it seems that larger problems are developing here at home…

While many are familiar with President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s famous farewell speech, fewer have read the original drafts which include dire warnings about the future of America and what Eisenhower termed a “military-industrial complex.” One of the original drafts, penned by speech writer Malcom Moos, reads: “We must never let power, implicit in this combination, […]

While Congress, the President, and the media play their games, the bodies are piling up in Iraq and Syria as ISIS continues their slaughter.

Since August 8th, 2014 the United States Air Force has been conducting an air campaign against ISIS which has slowly escalated as the Obama administration acclimatizes the public to the inevitable “boots on the ground” that will have to be deployed.  That air campaign has expanded to hit ISIS targets in Syria this week but […]

I shoot two, who fall in shock, disbelieving even as they die. My boys take care of most of the rest. One of the enemy’s AK-47s is empty from the initial assault and he charges Q, who still has plenty of ammunition in his weapon, but slings his own rifle behind his back and lunges toward the enemy.

This comes to us from a current YPG cadre regarding how the Syrian Kurdish Army is organized in terms of its structure and how the men and women in these units actually fight on the ground. -Jack Havel Hassan (havel means comrade in Kurdish), an ethnic Turk and member of the Turkish Communist Party, rested his mangled leg […]

News coming out of Iraq indicates that the YPG (People’s Protection Unit), an armed wing of the PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party), has launched a desperate suicide attack against ISIS tanks as they moved in on a village filled with civilians. SOFREP has been unable to independently confirm all of this information at this time, but […]