Op-Ed: The OSCE Monitoring Mission- Ukraine
By now if you have been following the Ukrainian conflict, you will have seen or noticed and organization that calls themselves the OSCE (Organization for Security and… Read More
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Op-Ed: The OSCE Monitoring Mission- Ukraine
SOFREP reports from Ukraine: Regressing to WWI tactics
We all have read the history books about living in trenches and thinking, “My god that must suck so bad!…” well guys I can confirm that the trench life is… Read More
SOFREP on the front lines of Ukraine: Trench warfare continues despite ceasefire
In the last month or so we have seen a flare-up in the fighting in east Ukraine, there are a number of theories behind this but that’s not what this piece is about. For me,… Read More
SOFREP in Ukraine, boots on the ground update
The situation here in Ukraine is one that is all too familiar with the promise of a new ceasefire that bears no weight. I think the problem is that when we think of the word… Read More
SOFREP reporting from Ukraine: Ceasefire update
Monday, February 20th, the new ceasefire agreement is in full swing across the front line of Ukraine, but is it going to hold up? I was in one of the front-line villages in last… Read More
Reporting from Ukraine: The New Ceasefire
So here we are again boys and girls another ceasefire in Ukraine, to be honest, I knew about this yesterday but I didn’t really see the point in writing something up on it.… Read More
SOFREP reporting from Ukraine: The commander of the Russian-backed Donetsk People’s Republic killed
The commander of the “DNR” (Russian-backed Donetsk People’s Republic) “Somali” Mikhail Tolstoy, known as “Givi” was killed in Donetsk DNR… Read More
SOFREP reporting from Ukraine: The war heats up
On February 2nd, the war in Ukraine turned up a few notches. It would seem that the once frozen war is escalating back to the old days. With major shelling in Avdiivka and shelling… Read More
These five Westerners were kidnapped in Sub-Saharan Africa. Who has them now?
Sorry for the delay on this article, guys. I was going to walk you through the groups operating in the area. Then I see that my fellow SOFREP writer Derek Gannon did a great job… Read More
Life on the Ukrainian front lines as a Western volunteer fighter
In February, 2015, I arrived in Kiev, Ukraine, for the first time. I was joined by fellow SOFREP author and my good friend Buck Clay. We were there to meet a contact inside the… Read More
Sub-Saharan Africa’s long history of kidnappings
Sub-Saharan Africa has long been one of those places on Earth that just invites trouble & conflict, dating as far back as 500 AD by then there was already an extensive network… Read More
Brexit: Why I voted to leave the European Union
Over the last few months it has been hard to ignore all the hype about what people are calling the biggest vote in British history: Brexit. Read More
Defining the modern-day mercenary (Part 2): Making war your business
I see big changes coming in the next few years, and I want to be the first to say it: These mercenary groups will be the future of the PMC industry. Read More
Ukraine 2016: the Forgotten War
September 5 2014 the first Minsk Agreement came in called the (Minsk Protocol) but just two days later it was broken. Read More
