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Harvey Bringing Out the Real America, Not What We’ve Seen Recently

By Steve Balestrieri | August 30, 2017 Admin, History, Opinion, SOF, SOFREP News, US SOCOM

OPINION: Everywhere in the past few weeks, we’ve been inundated with scenes of violence that have spread around the country via the media like wildfire. Protests in Charlottesville, VA, Berkeley, CA and to a lesser extent in Boston has many people lamenting “What is Wrong With Our Country?” People on the fringe of our society More »

Worst War Movies Ever… Don’t Waste Your Time on These Stinkers

By Steve Balestrieri | August 29, 2017 Admin, Heroes of U.S. Special Operations, History, Movie Reviews, Opinion, SOF, US SOCOM

Back in May around Memorial Day, we listed some of our favorite War Films that are guaranteed to entertain and keep your interest. We could have easily added a couple of more as the genre always has some worthy additions by Hollywood’s filmmakers. This year’s blockbuster “Dunkirk” could easily make its way into that list. More »

Remember, Selection is Just the First, Very Small Step

By Steve Balestrieri | August 9, 2017 Fitness, History, Opinion, Physical Fitness, Preparing for Selection, SOF, SpecOps, US SOCOM

I had the pleasure to host SOFREP’s Question and Answer session on Sunday afternoon where our readers posted in the “Team Room” and I was their sounding board. I just want to thank everyone for the fun back and forth session and hope that we can do it again sometime soon. We got some good More »

Iraq Special Forces, Rebuilding After Mosul Battle, Must Keep Standards High

By Steve Balestrieri | August 2, 2017 Coalition SOF, History, Opinion, Preparing for Selection, SOF, SpecOps, US SOCOM

The Iraqi Special Forces, the best troops in their military are looking to rebuild and re-arm after the nine-month bloody battle for Mosul. The joint US-Iraqi trained “Golden Division” suffered losses reportedly as high as 40 percent during the siege to oust the Islamic State fighters from the city, which was effectively razed to the More »

Do Your Job, That Is the Only Thing That Matters in Special Operations

By Steve Balestrieri | July 28, 2017 Admin, History, Opinion, SOF, SOFREP News, SpecOps, US SOCOM

The following is an opinion of the writer and doesn’t necessarily reflect the views of SOFREP or any other employee of it. Usually, when someone writes that, you can assume that they are going to say something that is inflammatory. Well, this isn’t going to be one of those pieces… I guess it depends on More »

The Public’s Need to Know Doesn’t Include Names of Covert Operatives

By Steve Balestrieri | July 26, 2017 Opinion, SOF, SOFREP News

Last month, the New York Times incredibly posted the name of the Central Intelligence Agency’s, (CIA) top operative overseeing the agency’s efforts in Iran. The Times justified its outing of this undercover and career CIA agent and his role within the agency by saying it was necessary since the agent is “leading an important new More »

Dunkirk an Intense, Masterful, MUST-SEE War Film

By Steve Balestrieri | July 24, 2017 History, Military Aviation, Movie Reviews, Opinion, SOF, SOFREP News, Weapons

  Christopher Nolan’s “Dunkirk” is a masterpiece of a war film that is a must see for any fans of the genre. The battle and evacuation of Dunkirk have been very rarely touched by filmmakers and for that reason, this film is a fresh look at a part of World War II that is largely More »

Does the United States Army Really Need E-10s or E-11s?

By Steve Balestrieri | July 20, 2017 Army, Opinion, SOF, SOFREP News, SpecOps, US SOCOM

Sergeant Major of the Army Dan Dailey was recently at Ft. Bliss, TX among the senior enlisted members of the service and in a closed-door meeting floated the idea that perhaps the Army should consider creating pay grades E-10, and E-11 for the senior NCOs who serve in positions of higher authority. And although the More »

Special Operations Forces Strategic Success Takes Total Effort

By Steve Balestrieri | June 30, 2017 Coalition SOF, Heroes of U.S. Special Operations, History, Opinion, Sea Power, SOF, SpecOps, US SOCOM

Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author’s and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of SOFREP.com nor of any agency of the U.S. government. Recently I’ve been reading some articles about the United States Special Operations Forces and their lack of strategic successes as the More »

Op-Ed: First Woman Battalion Commander in a Special Forces Group

By Steve Balestrieri | June 12, 2017 Admin, Army, SOF, SOFREP News, SpecOps, US SOCOM

A career Quartermaster, LTC Megan A. Brogden assumed her new position as a battalion commander of the 3rd SFG(A) Support Battalion. Her change of command ceremony marked a milestone for the Army’s Special Operations Command. Brogden is the first woman to assume command of a battalion within any of the Army’s seven Special Forces groups. More »

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