Guy D. McCardle

When nuclear policy sounds like a bathroom joke, FAFO stops being a meme and starts reading like the instruction label on a world-ending button.

A former Army HUMINT team leader who treated Top Secret access like a ticket to Beijing now has four years to think about the keys he tried to hand a hostile service.

From a blood-slicked LNER carriage to a White House red line on Nigeria and a Navy strike sinking a smuggler in the Caribbean, Saturday night showed how violence, policy, and power can collide at speed. Welcome to Sunday, November 2, 2025. This is your SOFREP Morning Brief.

From U.S. helicopters pushing relief into storm battered Jamaica to Maduro drilling four million militia for a fight he says is coming while El Fasher bleeds under RSF atrocities, this week reads like a field manual on power, logistics, and civilians paying the bill. It’s Saturday, November 1, 2025. This is your SOFREP Evening Brief.

Putin’s idea of holiday cheer is a million body bags strung up like ornaments—proof that in the Kremlin, even failure gets a parade.

From midnight to dawn, a mapped trail from Sugarcreek to West Milton left three Wright-Patterson colleagues dead and a base community clutching grief while investigators work the why.

From empty SNAP cards and sickout-slowed skies to a “97 percent” win policed with curfews and an internet blackout, the through-line is brutal and simple: hungry families, stranded travelers, and silenced voters pay while leaders trade blame and phone numbers. Welcome to Saturday, November 1st, 2025. This is your SOFREP Morning Brief.

NASA’s quiet supersonic jet soars as global tensions rise from Gaza to Ukraine. Here’s what’s making headlines this Friday evening.

Dan Crenshaw has turned the House into a war room, aiming the intelligence, sanctions, and if needed the rifle sight of American power at cartel empires that poison our streets while daring Washington to flinch.

Pentagon expands Guard powers as global tensions flare from Europe to Asia. Here’s your Friday Morning Brief rundown, October 31, 2025.

Trump skips APEC as China takes lead; crises deepen from Gaza to Sudan’s Darfur. Here’s what’s making headlines this Thursday evening.

Essential Provisions Field Fuel is the only ready to eat meal I trust to keep me sharp and moving when the shift runs long and the terrain gets ugly.