Category: Expert Analysis

As our warfighting capability continues to erode, it is arguably in our best interests for the Syrian Civil War to go on.

A scandal is brewing at the Air Force Academy. Racked by some huge sexual assault and drug incidents, the Air Force Academy allowed the Office of Special Investigations (OSI), an Air Force undercover law enforcement unit (similar to but not the equivalent of the Army’s CID or Navy’s NCIS) to develop informants among the cadets. Four have […]

If we were casting for a Star Wars redux movie, Obama would be my pick for Vader, and JSOC would be his Death Star. He’d be perfect to lead us from the American Galactic Republic to the American Galactic Empire, where everyone lives in fear of reprisal at home and abroad. Public citizens emails and […]

We’ve done a lot to cover the Syria conflict, and explain how not black and white the situation is. SOFREP recently wrote a book on the subject, The Syria Report by Kerry Patton. Syria has historically been a strong ally to Iran since the Islamic Revolution in 1979, and also supported the regime during the Iraq invasion that came a […]

Earlier this month (the exact date is unclear) the leader of the Tawhid Brigade, Abdelqader Saleh, was killed in an airstrike in Aleppo.  Saleh had been with the uprising from the beginning.  He was involved with the initial demonstrations against the Assad government, then took up arms when matters became violent.  Even in recent years, […]

There is a lot of talk in the media, and amongst soldiers, about how and why the Army has come off the rails in so many ways.  Some of it is the same bitches, gripes, and complaints that have been around since the Romans sacked Gaul, but the use of statistics to measure job competency, […]

On Nov 1, 2013 Hakimullah Mehsud, the emir of the ‘Movement of the Taliban’ in Pakistan, was killed in North Waziristan in a US drone strike.  This was the second or third time he was rumored to have been killed by drone strikes, but this time the Pakistani Taliban confirmed that he is dead.  Mehsud […]

Modern warfare, as waged by the US, seems to be mostly about timelines.  In some respects this is necessary, especially in a combined-arms environment.  When you’ve got a lot of moving parts to the operation, to include ground, air, artillery, multiple units moving in the AO at the same time, having time hacks built into […]

Since the fall of The Wall, the Russian military has seen better days.  It went from a force of four million men and $400+ billion budget, to 1.5 million active and a $90 billion budget today, but Russia has consciously invested in raising the quality of its forces over the last decade. This year has […]

There’s been a lot said lately about the discrediting of COIN doctrine.  We have two glaring examples of its failure right in front of us: Iraq is descending into sectarian chaos again, as the death tolls rapidly approach the darkest days of American involvement, and Afghanistan is a basket case.  Of course, Afghanistan can be […]

In recent discussions with European diplomats, Prince Bandar Bin Sultan, Saudi Arabia’s intelligence chief and ambassador to the US, said that the Kingdom was considering severing diplomatic ties with the United States over Syria, Palestine, and Iran. Bin Sultan claimed that the US has deliberately not pursued military action against Bashar al Assad, making this the […]

The following views and opinions are mine alone. I’ve written about Navy SEALs in the media before as have others in the community. As an author, I’ve felt the backlash by some in the community personally. However, friends in the community with whom I served remain friends regardless of some ungrounded character assassination attempts I’ve […]