Jack Murphy

About the author

Jack served as a Sniper and Team Leader in 3rd Ranger Battalion and as a Senior Weapons Sergeant on a Military Free Fall team in 5th Special Forces Group. Having left the military in 2010, he graduated from Columbia with a BA in political science. Murphy is the author of Reflexive Fire, Target Deck, Direct Action, and Gray Matter Splatter. His memoir, "Murphy's Law" is due for a 2019 release and can be pre-ordered now.

MEK Coming Off Terror Watch List

This means it is full steam ahead for Iran once Syria is out of the way.  The CIA will be propping these clowns up the way they did the Muj in the 80’s and our children will probably be getting killed by MEK sometime around 2030. -Jack WASHINGTON — The Obama administration will remove from the […]

A Story That Can Only be Told as Fiction: The Activity #8

SOFREP readers know that I’m a big fan of the comic book series, The Activity, about the highly secretive Intelligence Support Activity or ISA.  We reviewed the graphic novel that collects the first six issues not that long ago. I want to draw our audience’s attention to issue #8 which just hit the stands this week.  Please […]

Arab Spring Turns Into Modern Day Tet Offensive

My sources indicate that the United States and European nations are moving massive amounts of assets around the chessboard in response to these attacks.  This could get very ugly folks. -Jack TUNIS, Sept 14 (Reuters) – Tunisian protesters jumped over the wall of the U.S. embassy compound in Tunis on Friday and broke windows and […]

See What You Missed on SOFREP Radio!

SOFREP radio is where Brandon Webb, Myself (Jack), and our radio producer, Quin regularly interview guests from the Special Operations community, cover the latest news, and offer insider commentary on current events.  If this is news to you, then check out some past episodes.  New episodes go live every week.  Here is a look at […]

CIA Para-Military Personnel Injured in Mexico City Attack

A leaked report in Mexico affirms that the US officials attacked by Mexican Federal Police last week were CIA agents, something that has since been confirmed to InSight Crime. Writing for El Universal, Mexican journalist Carlos Loret de Mola claimed on August 28 that he had been privy to a confidential report confirming that the […]

MACV-SOG: RT Maryland’s Final Mission

On pay day Nov. 1, 1969, Green Beret Gunther Wald could not play in his favorite pay-day pot-limit poker game because he was preparing to launch with his team into Laos for a top secret mission as the team leader of Reconnaissance Team (RT) Maryland, based at Da Nang, Command and Control North (CCN) base […]

Interview With a Night Stalker

Colonel Clay Hutmacher entered military service January 4, 1978, as a private in the U.S. Marine Corps. In May 1984, Hutmacher transferred to the Army after being accepted into the Warrant Officer Flight Training program. After completing flight school, he was assigned as a UH-60 medevac pilot in the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault). Following […]

SEAL Team Six Throws OPSEC to the Wind, Next Time Use Delta Force or Rangers…

With the 9/11 attacks being the story of the last decade, the raid that resulted in the killing of Osama Bin Laden may be the big story of this decade.  Before SEAL Team Six inserted via classified stealth helicopters and killed HVT #1, the White House, the Pentagon, and the CIA had an agreed upon narrative that […]

“No Easy Day”, First Hand Account of the Bin Laden Raid

Yesterday many of us were caught off guard when Penguin books announced that they would be releasing a new book called “No Easy Day” on 9/11 that would be authored by a SEAL Team Six operator who was on the objective and participated in the raid. SOFREP will have more on the ‘No Easy Day‘ […]

Reality Check: Israel is NOT Going to Attack Iran

AFSOC veteran Jeff Emanuel helps cut through the media hype and tells why the constant political posturing will not translate into war. -Jack “U.S. Ponders Ways to Use Force on Iran” “Here’s How the U.S. Could Invade Iran” “U.S. Said Set to Attack Iran” “Does [the U.S. President] Plan to Invade Iran?” “Saudis Deny U.S. […]