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As I write this, Hurricane Irma is making landfall at the tip of Southern Florida.  Here in Georgia, current projections say my home, and family, are lucky enough to not get hit by the storm at its most powerful, but it’s now tracking to be a Category 3, hopefully a 2, upon its arrival in […]

SOFREP friend and occasional writer Sam Faddis is embarking on his latest mission.  This time it isn’t classified intelligence work in Turkey or para-military operations in Iraq, but a run for the United States Senate.  You can learn more about Sam and where he stands on the issues at his website.  Sam plans to focus […]

Navy SEALs jump from the ramp of a C-17 Globemaster III April 15, 2010, over Fort Pickett Maneuver Training Center, Va. The jump was part of a joint training exercise with 517th Airlift Squadron members from Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska.   U. S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Brian Ferguson

Robert Gordt joined the Kurdish YPG militia in March of 2017 and was martyred near Raqqa on July 5th.  Robert (or Rob or Bobby as some knew him) had a long history of political activism stretching back to the Occupy Wall Street movement in 2011.  While the first wave of foreign volunteers who traveled to […]

As the White House and the Kim regime play a game of chicken with each other the media is once again ramping up for a full-scale freak out about North Korea.  Remember the last one a few months back?  Yeah, nothing happened, just like every other time.  There are some new and important developments this […]

It dawned on me during the Harvey disaster, while having a beer on my friend’s farm in Portland Oregon, that if something really bad, I mean devastating, happened to the U.S., call it natural disaster, an act of terror, or worse yet N. Korea launches a nuke onto American soil, most Millenials along with Gen […]

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi declared victory over Islamic State militants in Tal Afar and the entire province of Nineveh on Thursday. Tal Afar became the next target of the US-backed war against IS following the recapture of Mosul, where it had declared its “caliphate” over parts of Iraq and Syria in 2014. Mosul is […]

Long story short: The first five people to post a picture of themselves with their dog in the comments section below this article will each win their own copy of “Megan Leavey” on Bluray. Back in May, I had the opportunity to get a sneak peek of the movie “Megan Leavey,” before it was released […]

Read part nine here. We were in a hasty harbor area. Those left on the course were to receive a set of orders for the final assault on a jungle camp we had been watching for nearly three weeks. All the hours spent on recce and writing reports was all going to be tested. Everything […]

Hurricane Harvey brought with it torrential downpours, historic flooding, and utter devastation for many communities in Texas and Louisiana, but fortunately for the residents of many in the affected regions, a different kind of flood soon followed: an outpouring of volunteers, donations, and support from Americans of all walks of life. After a look at […]

Record breaking astronaut Peggy Whitson is set to return to earth on Saturday, after more than nine months in orbit as the commander of the International Space Station. Prior to this long duration mission, Whitson had already accumulated more than a year in space on two prior ISS missions, which is a record in itself, […]

A U.S. Army Ranger assigned to Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment looks down the sights of an M240B machine gun during company-level, live-fire training at Camp Roberts, Calif., Jan. 30, 2014. The Rangers trained to maintain their tactical proficiency.   DoD photo by Staff Spc. Steven Hitchcock