Category: Editorial Cartoon

Who is responsible for the 2003 invasion of Iraq? Don’t say, “Thanks Obama” for this one.

What went wrong in Ramadi?  ISIS capitalized on a incoming stand storm to conceal their advance, which included the use of VBIEDs followed up by machine gun fire, one of their mainstay TTPs to kick off an assault.  Using weather to mask troop movements is warfare 101 and should not have come as a surprise.

While we at SOFREP are big proponents of Special Forces and their Foreign Internal Defense mission, we should do a better job of scrutinizing who we train, why we train them, and what we train them to do.  All too often we train those who can’t be trusted and train those who can in US […]

ISIS seeks to take credit for any kind of attack, or act of god, to give an exaggerated impression of how important they really are.

The next brawl of the century comes down to two scrappy opponents: the Taliban and ISIS. Regardless of who loses, we win.

Saudi Arabia enters the fray in Yemen.

Special Operations may be able to dodge the worst of the coming DOD budget cuts, but the military as a whole will be hit hard.

Our BS meters are already way into the red.

Does America place its troops in unnecessarily dangerous situations because of overly restrictive Rules of Engagement in places like Afghanistan?

Here at SOFREP, we collectively strive to be, and consider ourselves, a largely apolitical organization in that we do not often come down on one or the other side of the usually contentious left-right debate in America. True, we will occasionally weigh in on politically sensitive matters—see here, and here, and here—but, generally, we like […]

Can a nation be both a friend and a foe to the United States at the same time? Today we have a situation in which Iran is a de facto ally of ours in the fight against ISIS, but also a country we’re actively trying to subvert in places like Yemen. While arrangements like this leave […]

Has anyone ever stopped to actually ask what it is that America wants to accomplish with our foreign policy? What are our long-term goals? What is our strategy to achieve those goals? Instead, our diplomatic, intelligence, and military forces are constantly in ‘react mode’ due to a lack of guidance from our legislative and executive […]