Memorial Day Redux

Memorial Day Redux

Sorry we forgot to post this one over the long weekend.  Worth remembering just the same.

The Fall of Ramadi

The Fall of Ramadi

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.

The Farce of Training Foreign Militaries

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 […]

Overestimating ISIS

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.

Budget Cuts Hit DOD Hard

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.

Restrictive ROE’s from 1965 to 2015

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