Jamie Read

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 explaining the main groups involved in this article, so I decided it was best to have a rethink and take you […]

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 Azov Battalion. A fellow young Brit like myself, he had been here a few months and went by the name “Swampy.” The first meeting […]

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 of trans-Saharan trade routes. But peace would not last for long through the discovery of the camel; this enabled tribes to expand the […]

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.

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.

September 5 2014 the first Minsk Agreement came in called the (Minsk Protocol) but just two days later it was broken.

Each member of the team has seen his fair share of the front lines in Ukraine. Some of the team have even been awarded medals for their services.

In my previous article about the refugee camp in Calais, France—known colloquially as “The Jungle”—I mentioned how happy people appeared to be there but like everything that looks too good on the surface, there is a darker side to the camp trying to claw its way out. It was my second day in The Jungle, and I had made […]

I heard many stories on my walk through The Jungle about the refugees’ hardships, but the one thing that stuck with me is how happy they seemed to be there.

CTSOF are trained by the SAS in all aspects of counterterrorism, close-quarters combat (CQB), and hostage-rescue operations.

Tuesday 15th of March in Belgium: terrorists suspected to be involved in last year’s Paris attack get in to a shootout with Belgium’s elite CT unit the GSGU and French Police units in a joint counter terrorism operation that went wrong. The police were trying to break into a flat in Brussels near the hotbed […]

After arriving in Belgium and spending a few days there, I decided I needed to speak with someone who had been in the country longer than me, preferably someone inside the military who could give their point of view on the security situation in Belgium. I headed over to Antwerp to meet a U.S. Air […]