Vasilis Chronopoulos

About the author

Vasilis is a 5 year veteran of Greek SOF having served in 35th Mountain raiders battalion and in the Zeta amphibious raiders battalion. Now he is a freelance security contractor primarily working in the maritime security industry.

Why is Europe freaking out about Trump?

The election of Donald Trump has left everyone in absolute shock. Whether you are utterly excited or outraged with the result, the reaction in the rest of the so-called free world has been one of angst. To better understand why that is, it is important to keep in mind that the perception of the political […]

GRAPHIC: Pipeline protester Sophia Wilansky injured by a ‘concussion’ grenade?

On November 24, we saw reports of a woman, named Sophia Wilansky, who was said to have been injured in the pipeline protests in the Standing Rock. Protesters, her father and the mainstream media claimed that the woman was injured by a “concussion grenade” thrown intentionally at her by the police. Her father’s statement reads […]

Has a new kind of threat emerged in the Indian Ocean?

On October 25th, an LNG (liquefied natural gas) tanker named Galicia Spirit was attacked off the coast of Yemen. What makes this case stand out is that experts and authorities are treating it as a terrorist attack and not your run-of-the-mill Somali pirates angling for hostages. The skiff that conducted the attack was carrying a […]

Radio traffic from Vietnam: MACV-SOG recon teams in contact

All the content in this article comes from ProfessionalSoldiers.com, a forum from Green Berets for Green Berets. I had read it and listened to the recording many years before I come aboard at SOFREP and I wanted to share it as a tribute to the brave men of MACV-SOG as this piece of history showcases vividly what […]

Turkish soldiers seek asylum in Greece

Another ace up Erdogan’s sleeve is the refugee crisis. The EU in general, and Greece as the entry point, has relied heavily on a widely criticized deal with Turkey to stem the refugee flows from Syria and Iraq through the country and to Europe’s shores.