Afghanistan

9/11 has been called this generation’s Pearl Harbor, and I agree, but the cohesion that the attacks in New York, Washington D.C., and Pennsylvania generated was short-lived.

May God bless those men and women in Kunduz and all those who made the ultimate sacrifice for this world’s quest for peace

De Oppresso Liber roughly translates to “To Free the Oppressed,” and the actions of both CPT Quinn and SFC Martland reflected exactly that.

Believe it or not the U.S. Army is now running de facto top cover for child abusers in Afghanistan while drumming out soldiers who speak out against the so-called cultural practice.

The veteran community is tired of politics as usual, and they are starting to make themselves heard on all forms of media regarding the elections of 2016.

Billions and billions of dollars have been dumped into Afghanistan in nearly 15 years of war, with very little to show for it.  Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires in more ways then one.

I am simply explaining these feelings, or my experience with them, upon returning from a year in Afghanistan during the Global War on Terrorism.

ISIS would be well advised to note history’s lessons as they begin to wade into battle in Afghanistan, a country known as “The Graveyard of Empires.”

Happy Tanker Tuesday, FighterSweep Fans! As a follow-up to yesterday‘s aerial tour of the Hindu Kush mountains in Nuristan Province, we have a short, homegrown clip of a couple Boeing F-15Es rejoining with a KC-135 Stratotanker for gas over Afghanistan. With its conformal fuel tanks and two “bags” (wing tanks), the Dark Gray can carry […]

Barg-i Matal. It’s one of the most rugged, treacherous, and vertical districts in northeastern Afghanistan, largely walled off from the outside world by the Hindu Kush mountains. Very, very few people live there, which makes one wonder how it was also the site for some of the most ferocious battles for the U.S. Army’s 10th […]

The de-institutionalization of violence has opened the door to ambitious war entrepreneurs.

Hey Team Room members, apologies for taking so long to get Jaeger: At War with Denmark’s Elite Special Forces up on here for you guys.  We promise that all SOFREP ebooks will be made available to our Team Room members, no double charging you guys for additional material we put out.  So on that note, […]