Buck Clay

The Department of Defense (DoD) has announced its findings following a year-long review of department policy on military awards and decorations.

Back in 1999, I enlisted in the U.S. Army and started my adventure with basic training. While there, I was subjected to a new life experience, but I still recall what was hanging on the walls of my training company and spontaneously throughout the training post. In what seemed like the hallway of every building […]

This woman appears to be under 30, but claims to have been in the corporate grind since 1996. In addition, her photo, and her similar connections, are all using stock photos as their profile pictures. Image courtesy of the author. Over the past year, SOFREP has drawn the attention of an increasing number of incidents […]

The Kiev International Exhibition Arms and Security, is an amazing demonstration of Ukrainian independence and defense capabilities. The expo showcases Ukraine’s own technical competence and its growing collaboration with foreign defense partners. The exhibition was initially launched in 2004, but had limited success as Ukraine was emerging onto the international stage. By 2015 the exhibition […]

It is not yet clear what plan of action federal authorities have in mind to quell the situation in Oregon, or if they are simply hoping for reason to take hold. All that is clear is that there are armed men with varying missions and goals in Burns.

Officials from Baghdad and Washington are playing a fast-and-loose game of roulette by arming and empowering Shia militias throughout Iraq in a bid to hasten the eradication of Daesh.

I am not, nor was I ever, a mercenary, and the few times that people felt sorry enough to give me a few dollars, it was always far short of delaying my imminent 2015 bankruptcy, and was geared toward providing rations outside of standard chow.

Daesh is an apocalyptic, merciless crusade that employs fear and terrorism to propagate its message and impose its rule.

It is easy to forget that domestic terrorism still occurs regularly within the United States while we have been directly at war with foreign terrorists since 2001.

Tabloid-level allegations are clouding a possible renewed investigation of four Navy SEALs, initially conducted by the deputy staff advocate and Combined Forces Special Operations Command, Afghanistan. The accused now face a possible double jeopardy situation, having been previously cleared of charges. Renewed anxiety for the SEALs is now prevalent thanks to hoisted media hype and manipulated document leaks. […]

A ragtag group of backwater extremists have risen to international media heights and challenged the peace of mind and collective safety of the free world. Generally speaking, most people know little about them. A dangerous position, and if one man is historically noted as an expert on that point, it is Sun Tzu. In his classical […]

The reality of this is that Turkey could have simply called this the unfortunate situation that it is, apologized, and asked how to make it right instead of escalating it into an international political spectacle.