There are some Ranger legends out there, the kind a Platoon Sergeant or even a Sergeant Major who has served in the 75th Ranger Regiment might tell you about if you ask him.  The time 2/75 got called in to deal with a prison riot in Central America with axe handles, the combat jump into […]

Taking place on an old air force base in Słupsk, we are told that Delta and 160th are conducting this training with Poland’s counter-terrorism unit, GROM.  These training exercises are always interesting because we can see the relationships and bridges being built between nations, as well as the sharing of TTP’s as joint learning that […]

We get a lot of requests to cover this story or that story.  Some of these requests jump right off into conspiracy theory territory.  It isn’t that I don’t believe that conspiracies exist, it’s just that I don’t have the time of day for people who espouse conspiracy theories without a shred of evidence. For these […]

Hey Team Room, Thanks to all of our new members for signing up and supporting SOFREP. I’m in the process of lining up some awesome new writers for the site and am really excited about that. I also wanted to take a moment to introduce myself to our new members. I grew up in New […]

I am one of two guys who served in 1/101 LRRP, F/58 LRP, and L/75 Ranger, not the only one.

We certainly live in interesting times. The Middle East has seen a series of revolutions that many in the Arab world have waited to see for fifty years.  From the beginning of the Post-Colonial period, many nations in the Middle East have been ruled by royal families and dictators.  Some of these leaders were installed […]

There has some controversy over SOFREP switching over to a subscription model last week.  Not as much as we expected, there was a possibility that it all could have turned into a Netflix-esque disaster, but certainly some push back.  I can understand where people are coming from, it is the principle of the thing more […]

There I was, a brand new E-2 in 3rd Ranger Battalion.  I had been there maybe two months when the Battalion Sergeant Major told our Company First Sergeant that A/co was not sending enough of our guys to Ranger School.  We were light on tabbed Spec-4s at the time.  So, in accordance with the Sergeant […]

Social Dynamics Social dynamics may differ from group dynamics in that they are related to how the soldier sees his place in society rather than his place within the group to which he belongs. “For some soldiers, it was important to justify the killings in terms of a formal structure, a framework that would legitimate […]

Last week’s prison break in Benghazi is just the latest indicator that Libya, and Benghazi in particular, is sliding deeper into chaos and sectarian violence. Between the prison breaks, riots, bombings, and shootings, there is something else that has gone overlooked. While much of the violence appears to be tribal in nature (with Libya roughly […]

The psychology of war crimes in Nazi Germany is something that has been studied, philosophized over, and even apologized for in the decades since Second World War. Today, new primary source evidence has surface that allows us to study Nazi soldiers in World War Two in order to determine what the psychological drivers for these […]

On July 23rd the Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) launched a well-planned and probably rehearsed raid on the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad. The ISI staged out in the desert prior to the attack with dozens of vehicles. This is the same organization that US Special Operations was fighting prior to our departure from Iraq. In this […]