Write for SOFREP: End the War on Boredom!

Saddle up, warriors of the pen and keyboard, and let your words be your sword, your wit your shield; dive headlong into the fray and shake the pillars of heaven by writing for SOFREP!

A bright future ahead for SOFREP

I started this site over eight years ago. Sketched it out on a napkin in a San Diego diner called Coffee Cup. Jack Murphy and I were both writing for Military.com, but both of us wanted to stretch our editorial legs beyond what the staff would let us. So I got to work getting the […]

Incoming! A Letter from the Editor

Our team of unrivaled staff writers make SOFREP exceptional, our readers make it extraordinary. I’m proud and honored to be here with all of you.

Godspeed: Nick Coffman’s farewell to SOFREP

In January of 2016, I was a Marine Corps veteran. I was looking for a way to reconnect with the military community and I stumbled upon an interesting link for a job posting. SOFREP was offering a tryout for a full-time position as a contributing editor. The rules were simple: submit three articles and the […]

A Farewell to arms

“Humans are more important than hardware.” This is the one Special Operations Truth out of the five that resonates most with me. It has been at the core of my team-first approach as the Managing Editor of this site. After four years with SOFREP (two as a freelancer, one as full-time writer, and one as […]

A look behind the SOFREP scenes

This month’s cartoon features our venerable power-house writer Alex “A-Blast” Hollings at the office. Alex has been successfully working from home for a number of years now, writing for several imminent organizations and routinely embraces the luxury of not being required to wear pants at his place of employment. This is the first in a […]

SOFREP unveiled: A look at what goes on behind the scenes

The debut of the SOFREP Team Room cartoon feature depicts Managing Editor Stavros Atlamazoglou clad in flamboyant pirate attire leading his mob of writers, termed his “pirate crew,” forward into the resurrected SOFREP format. Against odds, “Charge!” he cries out in his native Greek language. Heavy-lift writer Alex “A-Blast” Hollings follows swinging from a (pirate […]