Jack Murphy

This post is going to be a little different from the others in SOFREP’s Women’s Self Defense series.  Namely, this post will deal with some of the laws of last resort and some of the brutal realities associated with a woman who is confronted with sexual assault.  This isn’t going to be pretty, so fair […]

Due to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, the FAA finally had to release a list of who is flying drones over American airspace and where they are located.  Some of these drone flights are fairly benign, such as soldiers learning how to fly the Raven on military installations.  I don’t think most Americans have […]

Brandon recently did a podcast for military.com about his new Navy SEAL memoir, The Red Circle.  Give it a listen over at military.com!

When I served as a sniper in the US Army I was never given the Tom Berenger award or any such nonsense, but having conducted dozens of combat operations as a sniper and having graduated from the Army sniper school, I would not have thought that this book would be packed full of new content […]

I wrote just a few weeks ago about how the computer virus called Duqu was worming through foreign computer networks, running recon for the next Stuxnet style attack.  Now Reuters is reporting that a virus has infected the oil control facility on Kharg Island in Iran.  Is this the beginning of round two? -Jack DUBAI […]

Enjoy a few pictures from the capabilities demonstration that the 75th Ranger Regiment did for the public at Ft. Bragg a few days ago, and head over the Regiment’s official Facebook page for more!

Scarborough Shoal: A Conflict Over Some Submerged Rocks? While a joint US-Filipino Naval exercise is taking place off the coast of Luzon, the Chinese Navy is running their own exercise simultaneously in the region. “China’s official Liberation Army Daily warned that recent jostling with the Philippines over disputed seas where both countries have sent ships […]

Hey folks, Dr. Phil is out with this piece about how vets with PTSD are “monsters” and “damaged goods.”  I’m pretty sure he’s just doing it for ratings and that in a few days he will disavow the entire incident and blame it all on an unpaid intern who went rogue on his producers (that’s […]

Camp Buehring, Kuwait- 2nd Lieutenant John R. Boyd didn’t expect to receive such a fulfilling mission straight out of the Officer’s Basic Course. Luckily for him, his unit was deployed two months after his graduation to Kuwait in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. When asked about his thoughts on his first deployment, the young Lieutenant focused […]

I received this e-mail from a friend and veteran who fought in Vietnam with the Marines and later served in Rhodesia during the Bush War.  His perspective and insight is interesting and thought provoking to the point that I felt it would be a waste to just let it sit in my inbox and that […]

Some insightful commentary from the media on this operation for a change!  Be sure to click the link at the bottom of the page for the video segment which shows the SBS operators scaling their way into the building.  Also, make sure you read Blake’s take on the Kabul attack. -Jack British Special Forces were […]

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