Tag: Jack Murphy

The 1999 documentary series, “The Mayfair Set,” directed by Adam Curtis and broadcast on BBC, recounts a story about traditional British gentlemen aghast their country was declining as a world power in the aftermath of World War II. One by one, colonies were lost and England’s economy went into a tailspin, giving rise to socialist […]

Former NSA and CIA director Michael Hayden recently made an appearance on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” where he commented that conspiracy theories surrounding Special Operations Command’s Jade Helm training exercise were stirred up by Russian influence agents. Jade Helm was an unconventional warfare training exercise run across the southwestern portion of America by the U.S. military. The […]

Much hand-wringing and melodrama has surrounded the broad daylight break-in that happened at the North Korean embassy in Spain on February 22nd. Adrian Hong Chang and former U.S. Marine Christopher Ahn are accused of breaking into the embassy, holding several North Koreans hostage, and stealing a tranche of computer hard drives and documents. The alleged […]

Recently, we’ve experienced some staff changes at NEWSREP that resulted in a bit of consternation among readers, which is understandable.  Unfortunately, sometimes decisions have to be made for business purposes. However, the site has nominally been run with a staff of five-to-seven writers, and this will continue to be the case this month, featuring articles […]

A recent article confirmed to me something I was told about by a Special Forces sergeant major who once worked in Special Forces Detachment Korea. Today, people living in North Korea know what life is like in South Korea. In previous decades, North Koreans had been so brainwashed, they actually thought they were the lucky […]

An excerpt from my memoir, “Murphy’s Law“: Things took on a new level of cool when Little Bird helicopters showed up at our FOB one night. We were going to have one night of training for an aerial platform support mission, then, during the next period of darkness, we were going hot for a high-value […]

As news breaks about businessman and former U.S. Navy SEAL Erik Prince supposedly pitching yet another plan to send American contractors into yet another country (Venezuela), a new report indicates there are more contractors in Afghanistan than ever before, nearly 5,900. Since President Trump took office, Prince has proposed numerous plans to essentially withdraw the […]

Norwegian fishermen spotted a Beluga whale on April 29th that appeared to be wearing some type of harness. The whale also appeared to be tame and came right up to the boat, evidently looking for the humans to feed it. The harness it wore carried a camera mount that had “Property of St. Petersburg” written […]

In the aftermath of the attack on Chabad of Poway, a California synagogue, during Passover, some observers were surprised to hear that there was only one fatality. As tragic as that is, similar attacks, such as that perpetrated by the New Zealand mosque shooter or the Florida nightclub shooter, were far deadlier. The contrast is […]

What a crazy week it as been with the book release!  Yesterday I did a interview with CBS, then was on the Brain Kilmeade show, then did my regular podcast with Ian Scotto interviewing former CIA case officer Bob Baer, met with my agent, and then drove over to Northvale, New Jersey for a book […]

I’m very excited to be able to share my memoir with readers today and it has already been interesting to see how the book is connecting with different people in different ways.  Some readers like to read about the combat missions, some are more interested to read about getting smuggled across international borders as a […]

My memoir, “Murphy’s Law: My Journey from Army Ranger and Green Beret to Investigative Journalist” releases as an audiobook on April 23rd. The book is also available in hardcover later this month. I decided I wanted to be the one to narrate the audiobook edition.  It’s my story, so it only makes sense that you […]