Why The F-35 Is The Right Aircraft To Defeat ISIS

If you’ve been paying attention to our coverage of the developing situation in Syria in this past week, you know one thing – it’s bad and getting worse by the day. The Russian Bear has been poked, and they’re throwing their best at the problem. The latest news out of Syria is that Russia has […]

Inside Russia’s Mission To Rescue Its Pilots

Combat Search and Rescue is one of the highest risk missions that exist on the modern battlefield. The situation is often fluid and very dynamic; the “known” information is extremely small and the risk to the rescue force is usually high. The critical factor to the confidence of the fast-mover pilots flying over denied territory […]

ROE for U.S. Pilots: Just How Restrictive Is It?

Happy Monday, FighterSweep Fans! It was a pretty busy weekend, so we’d like to catch you up on some of the latest coming out of Syria and the Rules Of Engagement (ROE) for U.S. pilots. This past Saturday, the U.S struck an additional 283 oil trucks in the eastern part of Syria. That report comes […]

What Happened When Daesh Decided To Poke The Bear?

This morning I saw the current operations of the United States against Daesh referred to as “Desert Drizzle.” I nearly spit out my drink in amusement, because it’s absolutely the truth. In the twenty-four years since Operation Desert Storm, the decisive application of United States combat airpower has gone from the devastating force of a […]

New U.S. Airstrikes Target Daesh Fuel Trucks

As we alluded to yesterday, the U.S. Department of Defense is sharing targeting data and other intelligence with the French Ministre de la Défense about Daesh targets in Syria. An official at the Pentagon stated, “We will continue [cooperating] with a combination of coalition targets and specific French requested targets for the foreseeable future…We are […]

Understanding Paris: Why Was Paris Attacked?

From the Bataclan Theatre in Paris, one of the first quoted attackers was overheard saying, “I am from ISIS” and IS on Twitter is saying that this is France’s September 11th. If this is Daesh, or simply another reckless claim from them, it is unclear and will be for some time. Daesh, or IS and Al […]

SOFREP Exclusive: Boots on the Ground with the Kurdish Peshmerga

Check out the trailer for SOFREP’s upcoming mini-documentary series in which I rolled out with the Peshmerga on an offensive against ISIS outside Kirkuk, examined Turkish airstrikes in Qandil, and interviewed Americans serving alongside Kurdish forces.  Below you will see some footage of the Peshmerga advance into ISIS territory, all while IED’s were going off […]

US Pilots: “Our Hands Are Tied.”

Against an enemy hell-bent on the destruction of the United States and her western allies,  one might think the number of sorties flown by our guys and gals employing ordnance downrange would be a pretty impressive number. For example, the number of sorties flown in the forty-three days of Operation Desert Storm averaged over 1,100 […]