Desiree Huitt

Phil Campion, former British SAS, sits down with SOFREP for an interview. Here, he gives advice on making it through any selection course.

The bombs were reported to be hidden in flower pots approximately 50 meters apart from one another and witnesses stated that they were detonated 30 minutes apart. Images from the scene show phone fragments which could have been used to detonate the devices.

One of the Pararescuemen describes his skill set as being a “mixture of being a paramedic, a firefighter, a rescue diver, mixed with a mountain rescue specialist.”

If you invented a product you would probably go out of your way to show that it works, but would you do this?

President Dwight D. Eisenhower pushed for the creation of the U.S. Army Marksman Unit in 1956 in order to improve marksmanship Army wide. Since then, the unit has competed in every summer Olympics that the United States has participated in since 1960 and the team has earned 24 Olympic medals. Here are the Soldiers shooting in the 2016 […]

This is one of several suspicious packages destroyed by the bomb squad since the Olympics began this past week.

I have mentioned this before when covering the Clinton e-mail server scandal. Leaking human intelligence can have grave consequences for both the sources and handlers. Foreign countries collect most of their information on the Unites States from open source intelligence and they will not pass up an opportunity to gather intelligence from the a server left unattended, especially from the Secretary of State and State Department.

Dabiq magazine is an ISIS publication geared toward recruiting more foreign fighters and inspiring more attacks in the West.

According to the Guardian, a Muslim man yelled “Allah akbar” as he attacked the two officers with a machete.

He allegedly tried to recruit people over social media for “sleeper cells” in order to plot attacks and carry them out in the U.S. in support of Islamic State.

Phil reflects on the fact that the difficultly with SAS selection was not the course itself but actually getting selected for the interview.

Police suspect National Democratic Front of Bodoland NDFB(S) (Songbijit) was behind the attack.