Special Forces

America’s immune system cannot function as a series of episodes; the treatment has to be applied consistently, the series of vaccinations completed to the end.

as it appears U.S. Special Forces ODAs, 12-man elements tailor-made for unconventional warfare, are deploying to Syria, it may be worth writing a primary on what they can expect to find when they arrive there.

AC-130 and A-10 airstrikes target an ISIS oil convoy in an effort to cripple the terrorist organization’s source of funding.

A new video has emerged showing the so-called New Syrian Army in action, kitted out with American weapons and equipment.  The train and equip program is a funded and run under the auspices of the CIA but the actual military training which the New Syrian Army receives is conducted by US Special Operations personnel.  The New […]

Today President Obama has authorized the deployment of US Special Operations Forces to Syria.  The strategic signaling has been present for at least a month so this comes as no surprise to our readers.  The covert action programs the CIA and SOF ran out of Turkey to arm and train the Free Syrian Army (FSA) were […]

Nick Turse of Salon feigns moral outrage over the application of special operations forces, but can’t articulate his own vague viewpoints.

Believe it or not the U.S. Army is now running de facto top cover for child abusers in Afghanistan while drumming out soldiers who speak out against the so-called cultural practice.

Today Jade Helm 15, the U.S. military exercise that will take place across Arizona, Florida, Texas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Utah, and Mississippi will kick off.  Involving about 500 Special Operations personnel, the exercise has drawn criticism from conspiracy mongers.  Worse yet, is those conspiracy mongers now form a large enough of a constituency that mainstream […]

While we at SOFREP are big proponents of Special Forces and their Foreign Internal Defense mission, we should do a better job of scrutinizing who we train, why we train them, and what we train them to do.  All too often we train those who can’t be trusted and train those who can in US […]

If it weren’t so troubling, the irony behind the U.S. Army’s latest embarrassing cultural manual would be hilarious.

Unlike the beards of Special Forces operators, the hipster beard conceals a shameful history filled with artisan cheese, craft beer, and homemade shoes.

Kurdish YPG forces receive American AC-130 gunship support for a ground assault.