A bright future ahead for SOFREP

A bright future ahead for SOFREP

I started this site over eight years ago. Sketched it out on a napkin in a San Diego diner called Coffee Cup. Jack Murphy and I were both writing for Military.com, but both of us wanted to stretch our editorial legs beyond what the staff would let us. So I got to work getting the […]

Incoming! A Letter from the Editor

Incoming! A Letter from the Editor

Our team of unrivaled staff writers make SOFREP exceptional, our readers make it extraordinary. I’m proud and honored to be here with all of you.

Godspeed: Nick Coffman’s farewell to SOFREP

Godspeed: Nick Coffman’s farewell to SOFREP

In January of 2016, I was a Marine Corps veteran. I was looking for a way to reconnect with the military community and I stumbled upon an interesting link for a job posting. SOFREP was offering a tryout for a full-time position as a contributing editor. The rules were simple: submit three articles and the […]

SOFREP Managing Editor Stavros Atlamazoglou: The Stuff of Kings

SOFREP Managing Editor Stavros Atlamazoglou: The Stuff of Kings

It was a black day, a truly black… the day that Stavros left the organization. Who said so? George Edward Hand IV said so. Let me tell you about the relationship that Stavros and I shared coming up together in SOFREP. We originally were just pen-pushing slobs cranking out content for the org. I recognized […]

A Farewell to arms

A Farewell to arms

“Humans are more important than hardware.” This is the one Special Operations Truth out of the five that resonates most with me. It has been at the core of my team-first approach as the Managing Editor of this site. After four years with SOFREP (two as a freelancer, one as full-time writer, and one as […]

14Charlie: An author’s farewell

14Charlie: An author’s farewell

“The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting by fools.” (Thucydides) Dearest SOFREP readership, It is with some sadness I write to inform you that this will be my last post here for a while. Life is nothing but a journey, and the time […]

News from the SOFREP foxhole

News from the SOFREP foxhole

Hey folks, Happy birthday, America. What a month. Legitimate protests smeared by wanton violence. Attempts to whitewash American history for the sake of progress. A seemingly unbreachable political division, which malicious foreign actors and governments are taking advantage of to further their agendas. And in the midst of all, we had the honor to break […]

News from the foxhole

News from the foxhole

Hey folks, June is around the corner, and with it another exciting month packed with content. Steve Balestrieri sits down for an interview with the president of the Special Operations Warrior Foundation (SOWF), a non-profit organization that supports Gold Star families and ensures that the children of fallen commandos receive an education. In a much-anticipated […]