A panicked retreat from Kharkiv, an intense close-quarters firefight caught on video, Chechen solidarity with Russian is showing signs of breaking, and a humorous video of a fleeing tank masks the reality that panic in retreat can be deadly.
10 years ago today, SOFREP published initial reports of the attack on the US Consulate in Benghazi that took the lives of four Americans including a SOFREP Editor, navy SEAL and CIA contractor Glen Doherty
Controversy over the identity of a captured Russian officer, Ukrainian tanks may be fighting at night with thermal optics. And a pro-Russian military V-blogger has a change of heart.
The Ukrainian offensive makes real gains as Russian resistance appears to collapse into a route to the far side of the Oskil River.
Ukraine has pushed deeply into Russian-occupied territory and may trap a fairly large number of Russian troops with their back to a river. And Ukraine is proving the tank is not dead, it was just misused by Russian forces in the first months of the war.
The death of Seaman Kyle Mullins in BUD/S training to become a navy SEAL has the New York Times claiming the training program harbors a culture of brutality, cheating and drugs. SOFREP looks at the evidence of these claims and draws a very different conclusion.
Following an early attempt at piracy last week of a Saildrone Explorer, the Iranian navy seized two more drones in the Red Sea until two US navy destroyers compelled them to release them.
Sanctions are beginning to cripple Russia’s rail system which is critical not just for supplying their troops in Ukraine, but also shipping coal to China and goods to their own citizens.
Russia is claiming that they massacred a 60 Ukrainian man commando unit that tried to seize the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant as UN inspectors were about to arrive. We’re not buying it, it looks staged.
An Iranian vessel of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps Navy attempted to make off with a saildrone explorer research vessel until a US Navy patrol craft and helicopter arrived to retrieve it.
Ukraine has launched an offensive to recapture the city and port of Kherson from Russian forces. Here is how we think it will go and where it will ultimately end up.
The FBI seizing records marked as classified doesn’t mean they are still classified.
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