Many of the people who read our articles here in SOFREP have either just volunteered for a Specia...

The attacks of 9/11, which seem so long ago, caught the United States by surprise. There were som...

Today is the birthday of Sterling Hayden, he would have been 103 years old today. Most people whe...

We have a lot of posts here on SpecialOperations.com that are geared toward the younger troops he...

British Air Ministry engineer William Godfray De Lisle came up with the concept of an integrally ...

Submachine guns had been Russia’s forte’ during the Second World War, when several mi...

After the forces of Hitler’s Nazi Germany overran most of Europe in the summer of 1940, British...

Soldiers who came from a light infantry or a Ranger battalion will have already mastered the art ...

Once Eugene Stoner, designer of the AR-15/M-16 series of combat rifles, left Armalite Corporation...

Before celebrating Christmas with the family today it was time for some exercise. I was up before...

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“…We are what we repeatedly do, Excellence then is not an act but a habit” Aristotle On...

In 1866, just about 18 months after the Civil War, the U.S. military suffered its worst defeat in...

On the evening of December 13, 2003, in the small Iraqi town of ad-Dawr outside of Tikrit, elemen...

While the majority of people associated with our Special Operations Forces consider Robert Rogers...

Because most of our military bases are in the southern United States, one area that can be neglec...

Okay, so anyone who knows me or has read any of my articles in the past knows that I am and have ...

Time flies when you are having fun, or in the case of the United States Army Special Operations C...

On a cold December evening in December 1773, American colonists, members of the Sons of Liberty ...

We always get some questions vis-à-vis about passing Selection and most of the questions center ...

A good friend of mine is a career law enforcement professional here in New England and although w...

One of the best-known cavalrymen of the Civil War was John Singleton Mosby. He served under J.E.B...