Kurdish Rambo Joins the Fight Against ISIS
This Kurdish Rambo recently joined up with the Peshmerga to help defend Kurdistan from the ISIS hordes.
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The Merc Whisperer: The Future of Freelance Soldiers
Contractors are going to be swimming in a world of warfare between institutionalized, state-run violence and deinstitutionalized violence as freelancers.
The Foreigners Who Go to Fight Someone Else’s War (2015 Edition)
MERCENARY! The imagery is painted in our psyche from books, films, and even popular music. It is the image of the lone wolf merc deep in the Congo with a rusty AK-47, running from the law back home, and desperate to end his down and out streak with a hand full of blood diamonds in […]
Wanted: ISIS Looking to Hire Oil Experts, Other Professionals
“The Engineer.” In Afghanistan and a few other Muslim countries, it is a term of respect afforded to men in positions of authority or specialty based on their past education. For anyone with an engineering background, and specifically with an oil background, well, old brother ISIS just might have a job for you. Recent reporting […]
Taking SOFREP to the Next Level
SOFREP’s future is quite simple. Hire a bunch of ex-Green Berets, Rangers, SEALs, and other assorted lunatics to travel to and write about third-world war zones. Our writers understand the terrain and can write about it from a much more informed point of view.
Another Key to ISIS’ Success
There have been many factors to the rise of ISIS, from a relatively obscure Al Qaeda affiliate that had been forced almost completely underground by a combination of US military power and the Sahwa militias in Al Anbar Province (ISIS was originally Abu Musab al Zarqawi’s Al Qaeda in Iraq), to a cross-border rebel/terrorist group […]
Mosul Dam Recaptured
On August 16, US airstrikes in the vicinity of Mosul Dam began. Previously, airstrikes had largely been centered on protecting Erbil, where the US Consulate is located, and some in support of humanitarian relief operations on Sinjar Mt. The limited authorization for strikes “in support of humanitarian operations and to protect US personnel and facilities” […]
Other Dimensions of the ISIS Offensive
Questions have arisen as to just how ISIS could take Mosul, Tikrit, and Bayji, and now Taji as well, according to Rudaw, while hardly firing a shot. While conspiracy-mongering is par for the course in the Middle East, making Maliki’s claims of betrayal sound initially suspect, names are beginning to come up that make the […]
