Watch: Office of Strategic Services (OSS) Archive – How To Derail a Train

Train Wreck: Experiments To Derail Trains – Archive Footage In March 1944, the United States National Defense Resources Committee & Office of Strategic Services performed a number of experiments on the Claiborne-Polk military railroad to help determine the best way to derail trains. The results were presented in the film “Derailment”. The film discusses the amount […]

Support the Office of Strategic Services Congressional Gold Medal Act

Urge your United States House of Representative to honor our World War II heroes of the OSS by passing a resolution to all the granting of the Congressional Gold Medal to veterans of the Office of Strategic Services, forerunners of the Central Intelligence Agency. On Nov. 4, 2015 Senators Roy Blunt [R-MO] and Mark Warner […]

Integration of Women in SOF Units

In December 2015 Secretary of Defense Ash Carter announced that all military training, occupations, and units will be open to women to include those found within the special operations forces. (1). Early in 2015 female volunteers were selected to attend the Army’s Ranger School. The first class started in April 2015 with 19 female students. […]

Talk the Talk: Foreign Language and the Art of Intelligence

When working within a target country or diaspora, dialect is often the difference between getting the right information and having to go back and get it right. Claiming to be from one place but using the dialect of another area will land you in a world of “this sucks.”

How to Operate Like a Spy: CIA Declassifies OSS Field Manual

The CIA isn’t known for sharing its secrets with anyone, let alone the public.  As such, the contents of an old Office of Strategic Services field manual aren’t something to be missed. As SOFREP has covered previously, the days of the OSS were the glory days where espionage, sabotage, and war-fighting all converged under the […]

Special Forces

Explore the intricate structure, diverse missions, and rich history of the US Army Special Forces, an elite military unit uniquely organized to counter insurgencies and unconventional threats.