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ISIS In Syria Being Decimated, Russia, Assad Call For US to Withdraw

By Steve Balestrieri | February 28, 2019 Air Power, Army, Coalition SOF, Heroes of U.S. Special Operations, History, Opinion, SOF, SOFREP News, SpecOps, US SOCOM

Opinion: The Syrian Defense Forces (SDF) have continued to hammer the forces of the Islamic State (ISIS) that lay in front of them. The Syrian government of President Assad, along with their Russian allies are calling for the United States now to withdraw from the country. “We also call on the United States, whose military More »

US Aid to Venezuela Thru Colombia Now is the Crux of the Crisis

By Steve Balestrieri | February 19, 2019 Admin, Air Force, Coalition SOF, Heroes of U.S. Special Operations, History, Military Aviation, SOF, SOFREP News, SpecOps

Opinion: The United States is pushing the envelope against the authoritarian regime of Nicholas Maduro in Venezuela. No one is arguing, except Maduro that the tons of medical supplies are urgently needed. The people of Venezuela are in dire need of food, medicine and an end to the hyper-inflation devastating the once prosperous nation’s economy. More »

Maduro Uses Greed to Maintain Loyalty of Top Military Leaders

By Steve Balestrieri | February 5, 2019 Admin, History, Opinion, SOFREP News

Opinion: When the facade comes off, these leftist Socialist leaders who decry the evils of capitalism usually live in an opulent lifestyle that would make Bernie Madoff green with envy. Venezuela is a prime example. Nicholas Maduro has a tenuous, illegal hold on the Presidency but he, like his predecessor, Hugo Chavez knows, that as More »

5000 Troops to Colombia? It’s Probably Not What You Think

By Steve Balestrieri | February 1, 2019 Coalition SOF, History, Opinion, SOF, SOFREP News, SpecOps, US SOCOM

Opinion: Like everyone else, we all saw the yellow notepad that John Bolton may or may not have inadvertently showed to the press during a Monday briefing. On it was two hastily scrawled notes about supporting the Afghanistan peace talks and the other was the “5000 troops to Colombia” alleged bombshell. Immediately alarms began going More »

Mission Accomplished 2 for US SOF? No Easy Answers in Syria

By Steve Balestrieri | December 24, 2018 Coalition SOF, France, Heroes of U.S. Special Operations, History, Opinion, SOF, SOFREP News, SpecOps, Terrorism, US SOCOM

President Trump ruffled quite a few feathers both here in the United States and abroad when he tweeted out a few days ago that our troops were being pulled out of Syria. The President said, “We have defeated ISIS in Syria, my only reason for being there during the Trump Presidency,” which he said during More »

Green Beret Medic Ronald Shurer II Receives  Medal Of Honor

By Steve Balestrieri | October 2, 2018 Air Force, Army, Coalition SOF, Heroes of U.S. Special Operations, History, Military Aviation, SOF, SpecOps, Terrorism, US SOCOM

On Monday, President Trump decorated former Green Beret medic and SSG Ronald Shurer II with the Medal of Honor for outstanding heroism and bravery during a combat mission in Afghanistan in 2008. Amazingly enough, Shurer was once rejected by the military for a medical condition before he joined and was accepted shortly after 9/11. Shurer More »

President Maduro Warns Military of Impending ‘US Invasion’

By Special Operations | July 6, 2018 Admin, Air Power, History, Military Aviation, SOF, SOFREP News, SpecOps, US SOCOM

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has warned the military to be on alert after reports on Wednesday had the United States planning to invade the country. President Trump supposedly was calling for the invasion with his staff. “You cannot lower your guard for even a second, because we will defend the greatest right our homeland has More »

Trump Administration Weighing Terrorist Label for Iran’s IRGC

By Special Operations | July 3, 2018 Admin, Coalition SOF, History, SOF, SOFREP News, SpecOps, Terrorism, US SOCOM

There is an ongoing debate in the Trump administration on whether the United States should label the powerful Iran Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization. The move is seen as using everything in their power to halt Iran’s force projection in several areas. While some warn a designation could pose risks to US personnel More »

Russia Withdrawing Troops and Aircraft from Syria

By Special Operations | June 29, 2018 Air Force, Air Power, Army, Coalition SOF, History, Military Aviation, Navy, Sea Power, SOF, SOFREP News, SpecOps, Terrorism, US SOCOM, USMC

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that the Russians have withdrawn a large number of troops and aircraft, according to state-run news agency Tass, Putin said they withdrew more than 1,000 military personnel and more than 20 aircraft from Syria in the last few days. “Only over the past several days, 13 planes, 14 More »

Trump’s VA Nominee Wilkie A Polarizing Figure, Will He Work For All Vets?

By Steve Balestrieri | June 28, 2018 Admin, Opinion, SOF, SOFREP News, US SOCOM

President Trump’s nominee to head the Department of Veterans Affairs, Robert Wilkie is a very qualified, conservative Washington insider, who has over three decades of experience navigating the minefields of D.C. politics. And he has a tough job to do manning one of the nation’s largest bureaucracies that is always under the microscope. Wilkie is More »

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