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I had followed 32 Battalion’s exploits throughout the 1980s in Soldier of Fortune magazine ...

I know what you’re thinking: “Here’s this FOG (F***ing Old Guy) preaching again about b...

During the war in Vietnam, the U.S. Army Special Forces were headquartered in Nha Trang. During t...

Just this past weekend, while chatting online on our private writers’ page with SOFREP’s ...

We’ve been focusing on Memorial Day in the past week, writing about some of the heroes of past ...

“It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men li...

If you aspire to become a member of the Special Operations Forces community, then the name T.E. L...

In February 1943, under the command of Major General Orde Wingate, the 77th Indian Brigade, also ...

After the U.S. troops had been driven out of Burma by the Japanese in 1943 during World War II, t...

The “Memphis Belle” a B-17F Flying Fortress of the Eighth Air Force would become the most fam...

So, you’ve volunteered to be in Special Forces and you’re getting ready to go to Special Forc...

Unconventional Warfare (UW), the bread and butter of Army Special Forces teams.  One of our read...

He was wounded 37 times by bullets, shrapnel, a bayonet, and a rifle butt but his only thoughts w...

Let us talk about standards… Oh no. Standards! Not that dirty word again. But it is a very ...

The endless Global War on Terror has claimed the lives of about 7,000 American soldiers, mainly i...

Major General John Frost is best remembered as the battalion commander of a British airborne infa...

In the early hours of December 20, 1989, 28 years ago, the United States began operations against...

Prior to the war in Afghanistan, the conflict in Vietnam was the longest in United States history...

Situated in the northwestern portion of South Vietnam, along the border with Laos, lies the A Sha...

Charles Ernest Hosking Jr. was a career soldier who fought as a U.S. paratrooper in World War II ...

Hannah Duston, also alternatively referred to as Dustin, Dustan, and Durstan in early Colonial re...

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