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President Trump will visit MacDill Air Force Base this Monday. He is set to receive briefings from U.S. Central Command and U.S. Special Operations Command. The President will lunch with service members and deliver remarks. The visit will be his first official visit to MacDill Air Force Base. The president will spend the weekend at Mar-a-Lago […]

Summer, Spring, or Winter Selection? If you’re trying to time your arrival to Special Forces Assessment and Selection, I’ll help. Spoiler Alert: Winter or Spring. My neighbor’s tulips are coming out already, and it’s only the beginning of February. By that I mean, the winter selection moving’s forward are not going to be as bad as […]

Politico reported, “Iraqi translators eligible for waivers under travel ban.” The article’s first paragraph read, “Iraqi translators and interpreters who’ve worked with U.S. armed forces will be considered for waivers to bypass President Donald Trump’s travel ban, a top official from the Department of Homeland Security said Tuesday.” But the exceptions won’t end there because […]

Ukrainian troops and pro-Russian rebels have been locked in a three-day-long battle with limited supplies and no resupply in sight. These troops do not have the training we do in the West, but they’re getting a lot of on-the-job-training, Ukrainians and Russian alike. In the early days of the revolt, pro-Russian separatists beat men to death. […]

The war in Ukraine is intensifying. The war between Ukrainians and separatists is escalating and has been the past several months. The war in Ukraine is not a static and boring war. Avdiivka, a frontline port city, is under bombardment. The shelling of Avdiivka has become so severe that authorities are considering and preparing to evacuate civilians. […]

Ukraine’s civil war, their effort toward energy independence from Russia and a desire for a nationalist state might be a glimpse into the  European future. Ukraine is a wreck, and there’s no easy solution, or any at all, in sight. In Syria, there are options to act as band-aids. But, in Ukraine, we see opposing […]

Starting next sunday SOFREP and SpecialOperations.com will host a weekly ruck march. For more information and to express your interest please leave comments below. When: next SUNDAY 2/5/2017 @ 1 P.M. EST Where: Rock Creek Park, Washington D.C. Western Ridge Trail Total Distance:  ~5 -6 miles Elevation Gain:  335 ft. Elevation Descent: -203 ft. Parking:  […]

The tyranny of doubt describes a plan or act of people’s nation to begin to destabilize; starting with a seed of doubt that can grow and sow chaos. The tyranny of doubt is a tactic used in psychological warfare, too. People can do it to themselves or outside actors can enact it. It has many […]

As the world waits to see how the U.S. will approach both Syria and Ukraine, a world leader weighs in and advocates to maintain sanctions on Russia. President Poroshenko of Ukraine has urged the West to keep the sanctions on Russia. These remarks came after POTUS Trump told The Wall Street Journal he would consider lifting the […]

President Trump has made good on his promise to build a border wall. Making good on the border wall was a significant commitment as the border security guard union supported candidate Trump in his presidential bid. POTUS Trump signed and has so doing put into motion enhancements to border security. Here are some of the core […]

Planning for the worst and hoping for the best might be a thing of the past, one day. A military course of action could be an equation and a computer can solve it. How accurate is your gut feeling? What if you could quantify that feeling and then study how it might play out? That’s […]

Priority in the new administration is to defeat ISIS and eliminate the threat that the so-called caliphate poses to the United States and the region. President Trump has sworn in and begun his work signing many executive orders. Promises are leading to action. The foremost, although yet to be discussed, of which is defeating and […]