SOFREP Exclusive: Details of Obama’s Authorization of SOF Deployment to Syria

Today President Obama has authorized the deployment of US Special Operations Forces to Syria.  The strategic signaling has been present for at least a month so this comes as no surprise to our readers.  The covert action programs the CIA and SOF ran out of Turkey to arm and train the Free Syrian Army (FSA) were […]

John Brennan, CIA Director to Step Down?

File this in the “rumor” category, but when it comes to reporting on the inner workings of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), rumor is often the currency of the realm.  According to some officers inside the CIA’s operations directorate, the National Clandestine Service (NCS), there are rumors floating around the Agency that the Director of […]

Hot Pursuit and International Law

The Indian government has lauded the raid as a success, and hinted that they’d continue such hot pursuit operations in the fight against future enemies.

China’s Unrestricted Warfare (Pt. 1)

The 1999 PLA white paper “Unrestricted Warfare” can help to broaden our definition of what constitutes war before we lose one we didn’t even know we were in.