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If you love your family and friends then you need to share this with them, it could save their lives. My kids are visiting me in New York for the summer, they spend most their time with their mom on the west coast. On our first day in the city I briefed them on what to […]

I was woken up on Sunday morning by a phone call, which ranks just below someone shouting “fire” in terms of God awful ways to be jolted awake on your day off.  It was my neighbor, a friendly guy with a gruff disposition and an equally gruff name: Grizzly.  Such is life in the woods […]

A supposed sanctuary turned into a nightmare—the UN’s failure in Congo is measured in the lives of the girls they were meant to protect.

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 […]

(Editor’s note:  Pusan is now spelled and pronounced Busan.  In this article, historical quotes and names–such as the name of the battle–will use the previous pronunciation in order to maintain contextual integrity.) As the continued trouble in North Korea has hijacked our headlines with Kim Jong-un and President Trump trading jabs of rhetoric, pushing the […]

Vogue Magazine recently did a feature including a photo shoot by Annie Leibovitz on Chelsea Manning, who they’re touting as a hero. “Chelsea Manning Changed the Course of History. Now She’s Focusing on Herself” and it is eye-opening and would be comical if it weren’t so serious. Hero? Hardly, she’s fortunate she’s not still in […]

Here at SpecialOperations.com, we frequently get questions from our readers, many of whom are or will shortly be aspiring members of our Special Operations Forces (SOF). Since most of our articles deal with the training aspect of SOF, we always welcome them. We had a question and answer session this past weekend in one of […]

As the US involvement was winding down in Vietnam in 1971, there was still dangerous work being down by the Special Operations Forces working under the cover of MACV-SOG (Military Assistance Command Vietnam, Studies and Observations Group). This in the shadows unit was once active all South and North Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos but as […]

Former Force Recon Marine Peter Nealen has his latest military fiction novel out, one that I know our readers have been looking forward to for a while now.  This book is actually a prequel to the Praetorian series about a mission taking place in Mexico that the author has been foreshadowing in his books for […]

You can read Part One here. Tytan Tactical, an offshoot of the movie production company Tytan Pictures, has more to offer the training industry than its immense prison and surrounding grounds – it also offers a massive 640-acre range just a few minutes down the road from the prison’s front gate.  Travis and his team […]

The route to the former Putnam State Prison that now houses the offices for Tytan Tactical, as well as its parent and partner companies Tytan Pictures and Tytan Creates, takes you through the small town of Eatonton, Georgia.  Like so many other communities in America’s heartland, Eatonton has fallen on tough times in recent years, […]

This week, SOFREP TV’s show “Training Cell” will take you into the hot, humid, and dangerous world of jungle warfare and combat tracking. In order to engage the enemy, you have to find them first.  “Training Cell” will show you how. Watch former Army Rangers Jonas Polson and Mike Ayala break down how to close […]