Category: SOF

Discipline is not blind obedience but the daily choice to serve the mission, manage risk with clear eyes, and lead with humility so teams can adapt, innovate, and win.

Hammerhead Six is a hard, practical lesson in how small Special Forces teams won ground in Afghanistan by mastering culture, accountability, and relationships instead of relying on firepower alone.

Twelve men, no script, and a mission set that swings from training guerrillas in the mountains to calming down armed allies in a cramped room at midnight—this is the quiet, decentralized grind where Special Forces actually earns its keep.

In a quiet room in Chantilly this April, CIA tech minds and SOCOM operators will start sketching the tools that will let small teams see more, move lighter, and think faster than the enemies waiting for them.

They drove us into oxygen debt until the pool felt like a grave, and when one man actually died and came back, the only question waiting for him at the surface was whether he was tough enough to climb back in.

Ammo was life in Prairie Fire, because when the NVA hit hard and the sky went quiet for hours, the only thing standing between ST Idaho and getting overrun was what we could carry, shoot, and keep running in the dark.

In my SEAL training I learned to develop positive habits that affect real change by identifying the negative self-talk I wanted to fix.

Read the exclusive account of what kinds of gear SOG recon teams carried during their top-secret missions into Laos, Cambodia, and North Vietnam.

NATO just put the UK in the hot seat that answers first when things go sideways, handing London the alliance’s rapid-response SOF command for 2026–2027 and betting that speed, integration, and a multinational special operations brain trust can buy time before a crisis turns into a war.

BROTHERS rips Yaël Sion out of the warm, so‑called safety of the team, strips her down past rank, résumé, and operator ego, and dares you to suck it up and ride shotgun while she bleeds, breaks, and still brings unholy hell to the world that cut her loose.

SOFREP’s favorite pipehitter, Geo Hand, shares how he has modified his own personal defense weapon.

Perhaps SEAL Team SIX forgot their clown car as they could barely lead a VIP to the local airport without disastrous results.