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Senior Pentagon officials on Thursday defended the small team of American troops targeted in a deadly ambush earlier this month in Africa, an incident that has raised questions about why a slain soldier was not recovered for two days. The Oct. 4 operation in Niger, now under U.S. military investigation, resulted in the deaths of four Special […]
This hasn’t been the best of weeks for the United States. We had the largest mass shooting in our history in Las Vegas and then news came out that a Special Forces team, from the 3rd Special Forces Group working with local troops from Niger, were ambushed and suffered four dead in the firefight. There […]
Clint Emerson, former Navy SEAL, has written a second book titled “100 Deadly Skills: Survival Edition.” Here is an excerpt that focuses on surviving an ambush or an active-shooter situation. The state of survival isn’t what it used to be. Scroll back several hundred years, and the living was harder, but the environment was a […]
Three United Nations troops were killed and five others were seriously injured on Sunday by an explosion in Mali, underscoring the dangers facing the four-year-old peacekeeping mission in the country. The forces were escorting a convoy around 7 a.m. along a road connecting the village of Anéfis to the city of Gao in northern Mali when […]
First, I would like everyone to know that this is published as a free article. While SOFREP normally keeps full articles internal to subscribers, I asked that this one be available to be seen by all. I contacted parents and friends of both Matt and Forrest to make sure it was okay to write and publish […]
Maoist rebels have killed 24 Indian policemen in India’s Chhattisgarh state in one of the most violent and deadly attacks on government forces in years.
Gunmen attacked security forces near St. Catherine’s Monastery in Egypt’s south Sinai on Tuesday, killing at least one police officer and injuring four others, the Health Ministry said, just a week after two deadly church bombings killed 45. Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack on a police checkpoint about 800 meters (yards) from the […]
NEW DELHI — Maoist rebels killed 11 Indian police officers and seized their automatic weapons and ammunition after ambushing a foot patrol on Saturday morning in the eastern state of Chattisgarh, according to a police official. The rebels first set off explosives and then unleashed a barrage of gunfire that lasted for more than an […]
An extensive police dragnet had failed Monday to catch a suspect in the ambush execution of a San Antonio detective, the first of four police officers in three states targeted in a Sunday shooting spree. Three of the incidents appeared to be targeted attacks and involved law enforcement officers sitting unsuspectingly in their patrol cars, […]
The military convoy was escorting a wounded suspect in an ambulance when it came under armed attack on the outskirts of Culiacan in the northern state of Sinaloa early Friday. General Alfonso Duarte told reporters that Guzman’s sons were “very probably” responsible for the pre-dawn ambush. The gunmen reportedly laid in wait for the ambulance […]
That accuracy . . . Maybe those scenes from the movie, Commando are not as improbable as previously thought. Regardless, there really had to be a better way to destroy that boat. Other than the longest sustained machinegun burst(s) ever caught on camera.
The post-ambush recovery showcases an interesting collection of materials. Nevertheless, solid ambush – as it was, immediately successful.
This video demonstrates the textbook example of why it is standard operating procedure to push or assault through the kill zone of an ambush.
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