OP-ED | 5 Books To Keep Your Mind As Trained As Your Body As the self-appointed SOFLETE literary critic and grouchy librarian, I have harangued you all to read David Joy and Larry…
OP-ED | Crush Your Goals and See Them Driven Before You The holiday season is here bringing along food, family arguments and flavorful cocktails. The typical pattern includes closing October with…
OP-ED | That Time Sturgill Simpson Gave Me His Door Money It was chilly, the trees that dotted the interstate were bare and the sun was returning home to the horizon…
OP-ED | On This Auspicious Day, TYFYS Let me start by wishing all our Vets a happy Veterans Day from SOFLETE HQ. And now let me roll…
OP-ED | #Inspoculture: Your Path to Terminal Failure I almost failed sniper school. En route to the course’s final evaluated test, known as a "stalk lane&…
OP-ED | Behind the Badge... Coping With Stress in The High Tempo Workplace “314 for an unknown injury accident at South 4th Street and Main Avenue South.” “314 copy, en route. 314 I’…
OP-ED | From Bangui, With Love “What is Europe now,” lamented Winston Churchill in 1947, “a rubble heap, a charnel house, a breeding ground for pestilence…
OP-ED | Why Venezuelan Unrest Will Disrupt More Than Your World Cup Bracket Chaos continues to spread in Latin America as the situation in Venezuela descends into authoritarian rule. The foundation of the…
OP-ED | Thai Caving 101: How a Simple Hike Became An International Rescue Nightmare For most people, getting trapped in a cave is scary enough. Now imagine walking into a dry cave for two…
OP-ED | Behind the Badge... Coping With Stress in The High Tempo Workplace “314 for an unknown injury accident at South 4th Street and Main Avenue South.” “314 copy, en route. 314 I’…
OP-ED | From Bangui, With Love “What is Europe now,” lamented Winston Churchill in 1947, “a rubble heap, a charnel house, a breeding ground for pestilence…
OP-ED | Why Venezuelan Unrest Will Disrupt More Than Your World Cup Bracket Chaos continues to spread in Latin America as the situation in Venezuela descends into authoritarian rule. The foundation of the…
OP-ED | Thai Caving 101: How a Simple Hike Became An International Rescue Nightmare For most people, getting trapped in a cave is scary enough. Now imagine walking into a dry cave for two…
OP-ED | You Want To Be A Rockstar? Get Used To Feeling Like A Roadie Recently, I wrote about resilience as a tool to combat failure. Resilience can be difficult to implement, but that does…
OP-ED | Anecdotal Instruction AKA The "A Recon Sniper Told Me..." Method People seem to want to skip to the head of the line and call themselves things they never earned. From…
OP-ED | Deja Vu...Forever In 2001, Task Force Dagger boldly and courageously invaded Afghanistan, toppling the Taliban in record time by empowering their Afghani…
OP-ED | Where Conan Steered Me Wrong No shit, there I was… I was standing in front of a stacked array of monitors among a half dozen…
OP-ED | Ranger Review of War Machine Our friends over at Combat Flip Flops hit the keyboard to give you the Ranger Review of the Netflix original…
OP-ED | 5 Books To Keep Your Mind As Trained As Your Body As the self-appointed SOFLETE literary critic and grouchy librarian, I have harangued you all to read David Joy and Larry…
OP-ED | Crush Your Goals and See Them Driven Before You The holiday season is here bringing along food, family arguments and flavorful cocktails. The typical pattern includes closing October with…
OP-ED | That Time Sturgill Simpson Gave Me His Door Money It was chilly, the trees that dotted the interstate were bare and the sun was returning home to the horizon…
OP-ED | On This Auspicious Day, TYFYS Let me start by wishing all our Vets a happy Veterans Day from SOFLETE HQ. And now let me roll…
OP-ED | #Inspoculture: Your Path to Terminal Failure I almost failed sniper school. En route to the course’s final evaluated test, known as a "stalk lane&…
OP-ED | Behind the Badge... Coping With Stress in The High Tempo Workplace “314 for an unknown injury accident at South 4th Street and Main Avenue South.” “314 copy, en route. 314 I’…
OP-ED | From Bangui, With Love “What is Europe now,” lamented Winston Churchill in 1947, “a rubble heap, a charnel house, a breeding ground for pestilence…
OP-ED | Why Venezuelan Unrest Will Disrupt More Than Your World Cup Bracket Chaos continues to spread in Latin America as the situation in Venezuela descends into authoritarian rule. The foundation of the…
OP-ED | Thai Caving 101: How a Simple Hike Became An International Rescue Nightmare For most people, getting trapped in a cave is scary enough. Now imagine walking into a dry cave for two…
OP-ED | You Want To Be A Rockstar? Get Used To Feeling Like A Roadie Recently, I wrote about resilience as a tool to combat failure. Resilience can be difficult to implement, but that does…
OP-ED | Anecdotal Instruction AKA The "A Recon Sniper Told Me..." Method People seem to want to skip to the head of the line and call themselves things they never earned. From…
OP-ED | Deja Vu...Forever In 2001, Task Force Dagger boldly and courageously invaded Afghanistan, toppling the Taliban in record time by empowering their Afghani…
OP-ED | Where Conan Steered Me Wrong No shit, there I was… I was standing in front of a stacked array of monitors among a half dozen…
OP-ED | Ranger Review of War Machine Our friends over at Combat Flip Flops hit the keyboard to give you the Ranger Review of the Netflix original…
OP-ED | All Quiet On The Western Front, But What About The Eastern One? Foreign Policy released this piece talking about an interesting move by the German Government. Since 1945, there has been an…
OP-ED | What's the Secret to Passing Ranger School? I get this question asked of me a lot and I've probably given this little spiel in varying levels of…
OP-ED | How To Lose The Next War In The Middle East In 2007, Michael Scheuer wrote the seminal book, "Through Our Enemie's Eyes." A decade later, thoughtful military leaders…
OP-ED | The Long Game The mission of the Ranger Regiment changed dramatically during my time there. Each change was accompanied by different tactical and…
OP-ED | Surfers, Hippies, Hipsters, and Snowflakes — Counterculture In Special Operations Special Forces students huddle together loosely in the cool grey light of dawn. Breath hangs on crisp morning air, as…
OP-ED | How to Turn a Fleet of Main Battle Tanks into a Graveyard of Fossils With victory of the forces of ISIS, the Government of Iraq has a window of opportunity to rest, refit, and…
OP-ED | Does Bigger = Stronger? Not Usually Americans vision of strength and fitness shifted in the late 1970s. When guys like Arnold Schwarzenegger and Lou Ferrigno began…