Ranger Up! published a fascinating article yesterday about Carlton Higbie, a SEAL who published a book which he hoped would address some of the issues and problems he saw in the military and in America as a whole.  His efforts caught the attention of his chain of command and of course he felt some retaliation.  […]

Back during the war in Lebanon in the 1980’s there were reports that Europeans were drifting into Beirut to engage in senseless killing as snipers around the green line.  Apparently these people were psychopaths just looking for an excuse to shoot someone.  The more things change… -Jack German security officials believe that a number of […]

Staff Sgt. Brian Guzman is the kind of guy who’d rather sit at the back of the room than be on a stage. He joined Army Special Forces to let his work speak for itself, not to get the public’s admiration. He did his job so well – saving wounded comrades in combat and nurturing […]

*Updates coming, article contains gruesome photo below* Update 1: Shots fired in Watertown 7PM EST, suspect thought to be in a boat. Update 2: 7:25PM EST FBI HRT has a dog team on the scene as does a local police unit.  They are preparing to move on the boat the suspect is hiding in which […]

The United States has arrived at a critical inflection point in the development and employment of its special operations forces. (Robinson 3) When I heard about Linda Robinson’s Council on Foreign Relations sponsored white paper I was expecting another abstract academic work which was frighteningly detached from anything resembling reality but was pleasantly surprised at […]

Members of the special operations regiment from Petawawa have placed third in an international competition

700 retired Special Operations soldiers recently signed a petition as a part of the Special Operations Speaks group regarding Benghazi.  Our sources do not run all the way into the Oval Office so we cannot answer all of their questions but many are fairly straight forward.  My answers are in italics, questions I am unable […]

Today I have a guest post from the author of America, our Military, and the Roman Empire. Our guest author served as a US Marine in the Vietnam War, and later as a soldier in the Rhodesian Army during the Bush War, which makes him uniquely qualified to comment on the recent case of an […]

Back to the nuts and bolts of how piracy and counter-piracy works… While underway, pirates are known to begin probing commercial ships as they pass around the Horn of Africa. The vast majority of probes and attacks are at night, although pirates are also known to hide in the fog during they day. The maritime […]

Piracy has probably existed since man first took to the sea, but it took on new dimensions with the advent of commercial shipping. SOFREP wrote about this very topic recently in Benghazi: The Definitive Report, which includes historical background on America’s first war on terror against Barbary pirates off the coast in Libya. Perhaps the […]

I recently found this great article from Air and Space magazine, well worth your time… -Jack BLACK HELICOPTERS ARE A FAVORITE FANTASY when conspiracy theorists and movie directors conjure a government gone bad, but in fact, the last vehicle a secret organization would choose for a stealthy mission is a helicopter. A helicopter is a […]

In a dark corner of American special operations there exists, alongside the Army’s Delta Force and the Navy’s Osama bin Laden-killing SEAL Team Six, a small unit of Army spies known as the Intelligence Support Activity. Created more than 30 years ago, the ISA has had its hand in almost every high-profile American special operation […]