SOFREP Sunday Cartoon: M18 Unintended Discharges in the Spotlight
A sidearm that holsters like a housecat and bites like a rattlesnake—God help us if it starts asking for rank and pension.
Author: Guy D. McCardle
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Guy D. McCardle is a sixteen-year veteran of the United States Army and most recently served as a Medical Operations Officer during OIF I and OIF II. He holds a degree in Biology from Washington & Jefferson College and is a graduate of the US Army Academy of Health Sciences. Guy has been a contributing writer to Apple News, Business Insider, International Business Times, and Medical Daily. He has over 8,000 answers and more than 30,000 followers on Quora, where he is a top writer on military topics. McCardle is the Managing Editor of the SOFREP News Team, a collective of military journalists.
Morning Brief: Israel Announces Tactical Pause in Fighting, Mass Stabbing in Michigan
From Gaza to Michigan, from the Thai-Cambodian border to Trump’s press podium, the world’s on edge—knife attacks in supermarkets, artillery in border towns, and leaders calling not for peace, but for someone to “finish the job.” Welcome to Sunday Morning, July 27, 2025. Here is your SOFREP Morning Brief.
Evening Brief: Trump Calls Leaders of Cambodia and Thailand, Pro-China Politicians in Taiwan Retain Power
Welcome to your SOFREP Saturday Evening Brief: From Trump’s tariff-fueled ceasefire push in Southeast Asia to political deadlock in Taiwan, a deadly courthouse siege in Iran, and the massacre of Christians in Nigeria’s Plateau State, the world feels like it’s teetering on a knife’s edge—and the blade’s getting sharper.
From the Swamp to the Sewer: The Deep State in Retreat
They thought the shadows would shield them forever, but now they’re flailing in the sun, exposed, desperate, and one step from being flushed out for good.
Morning Brief: Cambodia/Thai Border Clash Continues, New Mexico Dorm Shooting, Lebanese Terrorist Released
An escalating border war in Southeast Asia, a deadly dorm shooting in New Mexico, and the hero’s welcome of a convicted terrorist in Beirut all point to a world growing more volatile, where violence—whether across borders, on campuses, or from decades-old grudges—keeps finding new ways to erupt. Welcome to your morning brief for Saturday, July 26, 2025.
Evening Brief: Israel, US Consider ‘Alternative Options’ as Ceasefire Talks with Hamas Stall; Ukraine Holds Line Against Russian Summer Offensive
Ceasefire talks stall, border clashes erupt in Asia, and Ukraine holds the line—catch up with SOFREP’s Evening Brief for July 25, 2025.
SOF Pic of the Day: Brazilian Special Forces with M110 Rifle
A Brazilian Special Forces operator leans out of a helicopter with an M110 sniper rifle in hand, a ghost in the sky ready to put round on target if the mission calls for it.
Morning Brief: France to Recognize Palestinian State at United Nations in September, Thailand Rejects Foreign Mediation in Escalating Border Conflict with Cambodia
Sudan’s civil war worsens, France backs Palestine, and Thai-Cambodian border tensions spike. Here’s your Friday morning brief, July 25, 2025.
Evening Brief: Saudi Arabia Pledges $6.4 Billion in Syrian Investments; Russian Glide Bombs Kill 2, Wound 33 in Eastern Ukraine Strike
US quits Gaza talks, Trump bans “woke AI,” and Thai-Cambodian clashes turn deadly—here’s tonight’s brief, July 24, 2025.
‘Nobody Told Us About the Bomber’: A Delta Pilot’s Chilling Near Miss
It wasn’t war, weather, or mechanical failure that nearly brought down Flight 3788—it was a blind sky, a bomber on autopilot, and a rural system running on hope and habit.
Morning Brief: US Central Command Rejects Iranian Claims of Naval Incursion Near Gulf of Oman, Global Space Economy Hits $613 Billion in 2024
US boosts Ukraine, Thai-Cambodian clash turns deadly, and a spy scandal erupts in Norway. Here’s your Thursday morning brief, July 24, 2025.
Evening Brief: Iran Threatens Nuclear Treaty Exit as Europe Mulls Sanctions Reinstatement, Russia Launches $1.1 Trillion Rearmament Plan
Iran threatens NPT exit, Gaza starves, Russia rearms, USAF grounds M18, and Trump reignites the Russia probe—here’s tonight’s brief.
