Now that you can pick up Season One of the Global War on Terror on DVD at Best Buy, we are rolling into Season Two, live and in HD, in dozens of countries around the world. Season One closed out the Mega-FOB and MRAP portion of the war in Afghanistan and Iraq. With it, the […]

Once upon a time you had to be a member of one of two units in US Special Operations to be considered an operator.  Those units were SEAL Team Six and Delta Force and only those who passed selection and training were entitled to call themselves that, not support personnel or those on the periphery. […]

Today we have for our readers a special interview with an aerospace engineer and friend of SOFREP, who we know as ColonelProp, who graciously allowed us to kill a few hours of his time with our questions.  Because this individual works on some sensitive programs for the United States government, this interview had to be […]

A Mass Casualty event is pretty much exactly what it sounds like.  When a military unit sustains so many injuries that it can no longer support itself, it becomes what is known as a Mass-Cas event.  This doesn’t happen very often, thankfully, although we know of some other examples where casualties became overwhelming, such as […]

The Australian military wrapped up a large scale training exercise dubbed Iron Moon in late September which saw a widespread use of Special Operations Forces and capabilities.  The training scenarios included training jumps, ship seizures, and recovery operations more commonly known to the public as hostage rescue. Using the waters off the coast of North […]

While much has been made over the last twelve years of American Special Operations Forces in Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, Pakistan, and other locations around the world, Russian Special Operations have been almost completely overlooked. What American and Russian SOF share in common is the War on Terror. Both nations have had to tangle with extremist […]

This is the last call for those wishing to join Michael Schlitz, Ben Harrow, myself, and many other veterans and supporters for the Tunnel to Towers 5k put on by the Gary Sinese Foundation this Sunday.  We ruck marched the course last year to raise money for Michael’s smart home, which is now fully funded.  […]

We now have a list of some of the alleged terrorists behind the shopping mall massacre in Nairobi, Kenya.  The mall was apparently attacked because it was known to be frequented by Westerners.  The list of terrorists involved now in the media is preliminary and should not be taken at face value until confirmed. The […]

One area in which Benghazi: The Definitive Report was lacking was in some of the details of America’s response the night of, and in the aftermath of, the attack on our Temporary Mission Facility/Consulate in Benghazi. We hope to shed some more light on this issue, but first let’s take a look at it from the […]

The other day, Jeremy Scahill decided to go ahead and tweet a picture of me wearing my Ranger t-shirt out at a bar in Brooklyn.  No one in the bar seemed to care about it, but the Twitter commandos sure did.  There was a decent sized shit storm of vegan lesbians calling for blood in […]

There are certain Special Operations legends out there that are sometimes hard to make heads or tails of.  One involves a little-known prison riot in Panama which resulted in a subsequent snatch and grab operation that the 2nd Ranger Battalion was involved in.  The author first heard about this event from his Platoon Leader in […]

It is to our shame that human trafficking continues to exist within the United States.  The practice goes on in a highly secretive nature.  In this author’s experience, investigating human trafficking and weapons trafficking are two hot subjects that greatly increase your odds of turning up in a ditch somewhere with a bullet in the […]