Beginning in the summer of 1965, 3/4 (Third Bn, 4th Marines) were faced with an expanding tactical area of operational responsibility (TAOR) and shrinking numbers due to insufficient replacements coming in to fill combat losses. As a result, the Marines began working directly with the Popular Forces, local militias made up of old men and boys […]
Several media outlets have recently run articles about the impact the legalization of marijuana has been having on the Mexican cartels. Most (such as those from VICE or DailyKos) have been crowing that the legalization of pot is “crippling” the cartels. But is this a realistic view? Let’s take a look. Marijuana is legal in Alaska, […]
In September, 43 “Normalistas,” students studying to be teachers, in Iguala, Guerrero State, Mexico disappeared. They are now presumed to have been murdered. They were kidnapped by municipal police and handed over to “Guerreros Unidos,” the local organized-crime executioners. The response to these kidnappings and presumed murders has been widespread protests in Mexico City and […]
You may have noticed that we have been working here at SOFREP on expanding the amount of content that falls under current events and open-source analysis. This is going to continue to expand. Most of us have become convinced that the present models of war and politics have become increasingly divorced from reality. A good […]
Over the last 25 years or so, starting with Desert Storm, there has been a concerted effort to avoid the kind of hatred and abuse that was heaped upon returning Vietnam veterans. This is commendable. Men should not be spat upon and vilified simply because they did their duty and went to war. Most of the […]
On September 22, the Zaydi Houthi movement in Yemen seized control of the capital, Sana’a. This came after a week of clashes with the Yemeni government that reportedly killed up to 340 people. The Houthis, a Shi’a tribal group, have been fighting with the Sunni-dominated government for representation. The Houthis as a group are generally […]
Some of 2nd Recon Bn’s Amphibious Reconnaissance Marines doing their Amphib thing. Bold Alligator is a multinational exercise hosted by the US, concentrating on littoral warfare. Started in 2011, it has been held annually ever since, and involves as many as eleven allied countries conducting combined-arms littoral operations at Camp Lejeune, NC and Virginia. http://youtu.be/3R7FH-tR3sw […]
Rumors have been flying around the Internet over the last week about Abu Bakr al Baghdadi, the self-styled “Caliph Ibrahim” of the Islamic State, being caught in a Coalition airstrike against Daash leadership. Daash’s own media have acknowledged that he is wounded, and the waters were further muddied on November 10 by a report put […]
Short answer: Probably not. Even as it appears more and more inevitable that a renewal of Western involvement in the ground war in Iraq is coming, there are no indicators that it would be anything other than a repeat of the later stages of Operation Iraqi Freedom. That means lots of heavy, high-profile armored vehicles […]
The Chechen jihadist fighter has achieved near-legendary status in the last decade-plus. “Chechen” has become synonymous with “militarily competent jihadist.” Any time coalition forces have met jihadists on the battlefield who maneuver and shoot well, they are presumed to be Chechens. In 2005, the effective insurgent snipers in Iraq were all presumed to be Chechens. […]
Before 9/11, most Americans had probably never heard of Al Jazeera. The Qatar government-owned, Doha-based broadcaster was pretty focused on the Arab world. It also wasn’t very old, having only been established in 1996, and gone 24-hour in 1999. The first that most Westerners heard of it was during the initial invasion of Afghanistan in […]
H. John Poole defines “distributive operations” as small units (roughly squad-sized) working alone. While he primarily writes about the application of “distributive operations” to counterinsurgency, the use of many small, autonomous units scattered across the battlespace has come to the forefront of ISIS’ tactics in Al Anbar province. ISIS’ commander in Al Anbar is believed […]
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