Jack Murphy

From the Craycroft gate on D-M, it’s approximately 138 miles to our destination at Gila Bend Air Force Auxiliary Field for the July 25 combat search and rescue training mission for pararescuemen from multiple rescue squadrons and rescue groups on D-M. As we arrive at Gila Bend and take the dirt road to our final […]

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 I want to take a moment to introduce our newest SFOREP writer to our readers and welcome him to the team.  Coriolanus comes from a background in intelligence analysis and is quite simply a wealth of information, bringing a completely new perspective to SOFREP that Brandon and I are sometimes lacking.  When I asked Coriolanus […]

Warning: political satire to follow… For the record, I like Muslims as a whole.  I think that they have been misrepresented and misunderstood in many ways.  When I was deployed to Iraq I trained and fought with Muslim soldiers, many of whom would have laid down their life for me if it came to that.  […]

Posted today on craigslist is a solicitation for film extras to appear at the Ecuadorian embassy in London.  Is Assange going to use a small army of body doubles to confuse authorities as he makes his escape to politcal asylum in Ecuador or are they just looking to fill seats at a fake press conference?

The conflict in the Middle East is winding down, US forces are withdrawing, and wars are being handed over to various proxy forces to fight in the context of the so-called Arab Spring from Egypt, to Libya, to Syria. Once Syria falls, more than likely after the US Presidential elections are complete, the Arab Spring […]

As someone who has worked extensively with translators overseas, I know how important their role is and how critical they are to the mission. When I read Sibel Edmonds’ story I was shocked but not necessarily surprised. I wasn’t surprised at the lack of professionalism that she witnessed among the staff of translators at the […]

In The Shadow: Chinese Special Forces Build a 21st Century Fighting Force by Scott J. Henderson In its effort to build a modern 21st Century fighting force, China has had its own revolution in military affairs that has touched almost every aspect of the armed forces. Chinese special-operations forces have been no exception. Major transformations […]

Washington, D.C. – Department of Defense officials recently announced the limited deployment of the new Inverted Multi-Purpose Ballistic Tomahawk Bayonet, or IMBTB. The new piece of tactical equipment is being assigned to a select number of ‘specialty units’ currently fighting the war on terror in Afghanistan. “The IMBTB is a combination of military hardware in one […]

If you were not suicidal prior to starting this online training, you sure will be by the time you finish…

Everyone knows about the polygraph. Funny enough, it was invented by William Moulton Marston who was also the mind that came up with the DC Comics character Wonder Woman. Now you know why she carries her “lasso of truth”! But familiarity with the polygraph also means that plenty of people know how to defeat or […]

Four Thai soldiers were shot dead today in a brazen daylight attack carried out by suspected Muslim insurgents in Thailand’s violence-prone south. Two other soldiers were wounded. Video footage of the attack in Pattani province was captured by surveillance cameras that authorities have installed throughout Thailand’s three southernmost provinces, where an Islamist insurgency that erupted […]