Hey Team Room members, here is a preview of something I am working on right now.  I’m still waiting on some additional information so this is still a work in progress.  Please keep this on the down low until I publish it on SOFREP. -Jack Much has been made of the threat of piracy over […]

Into the Modern Era Dreams of a trans-Saharan railway began in the 1860’s but were abandoned when interest waned in the wake of the killing of Colonel Flatter and his expedition in 1881 by the Toureg tribesmen of southern Algeri15. World War One brought about a renewed interest in penetrating deeper into the Sahara to […]

Here’s a post Jack posted on The Loadout Room last year. This is serious Ranger training shit. And kids, seriously, don’t try this at home.

Check out Brandon and I making an appearance on Sean Hannity’s hour long special about Benghazi which aired last night:

Here’s a video showing a French combat engagement in Mali, around February 26, in support of Operation Serval.

Some of the more adorable criticism that part 1 of this article received was that I need to do some growing up.  That is cute and condescending all at the same time.  The thing is, I grew up in the Special Operations community during a time of war.  Like many others in Army Special Operations, […]

The Wad Nun Network By the early twentieth century, what Ghislaine calls the Wad Nun network had evolved into, “an expansive operation with agents in key western African markets…” ranging from Timbuktu to Dakar to Conakry. It should be noted that this truly was a network of people working together, rather than a homogenous ethic […]

All this following on the heels of a shootout between the Malaysians and the Sultan’s Royal Guards.  Things are continuing to get ugly in Sabah.  I am told that Malaysia’s elite VAT 69 Commando unit is also on the prowl. -Jack MANILA, Philippines (3rd UPDATE) – Malaysian security forces launched fresh attacks on the more […]

Special thanks to a SOFREP reader who very graciously translated from French to English for us.  The original article can be Philippe Chapleau’s website. -Jack Almost 2300 French soldiers have deployed (or waiting to be deployed) to Malian territory (according to Jean-Yves Le Drian, 3700 are in the theatre of operations which is from Senegal […]

By: Josh L. In the summer of 2010 I finally received the news that I had been waiting to hear since I first joined the Army nearly eight years earlier,  I finally got a mission to somewhere other than Iraq.  It was a Civil Affairs guy’s dream mission, the destination Kinshasa, Congo: “the heart of […]

The following news comes from a Filipino Facebook page but is believed to be accurate as I’ve cross referenced it with other sources: BREAKING NEWS: The Number of armed Filipinos in Sabah has reached 300, at least six camps have been set up and still waiting for reinforcements from Tawi-Tawi. Raja Muda Azzimudie Kiram, who […]

Just a quick but important update about the new ebook that Brandon and I released this week. Benghazi: The Definitive report has made quite a splash and I’ve been doing media for it all week, with both myself and my co-author scheduled to do some television appearances starting on Monday. We both believe in this […]