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Dürer’s knight rides on as a reminder that leadership is measured less by the enemies at your back than by whether you keep your principles intact when politics, temptation, and fear start whispering in your ear.
Brigadier General (Ret.) Donald C. Bolduc, former US Army Special Forces Commander. (US Army)
I am not crossing into Cambodia because I want to, but because borders now behave like quiet intelligence services, and once you have been attached to a war, even a routine visa run starts feeling like you are moving through someone else’s threat matrix.
The author in Ukraine, equipped for front-line operations, stands as a reminder that modern wars leave marks that travel with you long after the fighting moves on. Image courtesy of the author
Brown shooter hunt widens as FAA, White House and Venezuela moves dominate. Here’s your Wednesday morning brief, December 17, 2025.
A still from FBI-released footage shows the suspected shooter surveilling the area near Brown University shortly before the attack. Image Credit: FBI.
Pentagon reviews vaccine discharges, EU eyes Russian assets, M23 rebels to withdraw. Here’s what’s making headlines this Tuesday evening.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth signs a memorandum on April 23, 2025, regarding the discharge of service members who refused the COVID-19 vaccine. Image Credit: Department of Defense / DVIDS.
The SIG Sauer M250 is the Army admitting that the next fight is farther out, tougher targets are the baseline, and the squad needs a belt-fed gun that brings real overmatch instead of hoping 5.56 and good intentions will carry the day.
An infantryman fires the SIG Sauer M250 during a buddy team live fire exercise at Fort Campbell in 2023. Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons
If Lobaev’s catalog reads like a roll call of overbuilt, mile-plus problem solvers, it is because these boutique .308-to-.408 CheyTac bolt guns and suppressed urban counter-sniper rigs were engineered to punch holes in physics, wallets, and anyone unlucky enough to be downrange when the “whispering death” models start working.
SVL Saboteur-L sniper rifle in .308 Winchester. Photo by Lobaev Arms.
Fuentes sells antisemitism and Kremlin-friendly authoritarian nostalgia the way the internet sells everything else, as meme-flavored entertainment stripped of consequence, and Europe cannot afford to treat that kind of cultural poison as harmless content.
What should feel like a straightforward moment of recognition too often turns into a slow, bureaucratic grind where lost awards, subjective gatekeeping, and poor communication leave deserving service members feeling dismissed instead of honored.
US strikes drug-smuggling boats, USS Nimitz returns, France convicts ex-rebel leader. Here’s your Tuesday morning brief, December 16, 2025.
ISIS kills two US troops, Brown gunman still loose, Ukraine peace talks stall. Here’s what’s making headlines this Monday evening.
The Legends M1A1 .177 turns your backyard into a full-auto grin factory, marrying Thompson swagger with blowback bite and thirty-round bursts that make soda cans disappear in a hurry.
The tanker seizure off Venezuela, executed under a lawful warrant and powered by tight interagency teamwork from the Coast Guard, FBI, Homeland Security Investigations, and the Department of Defense, shows how the United States can hit terrorist-linked maritime networks where they move money and materiel while staying inside the lines of due process.
Bondi has always sold the illusion that the world’s older hatreds cannot reach the sand, until December 14 proved how quickly ideology can turn a public shoreline into a killing ground.
Brown shooting probe shifts as ISIS kills US troops and Zelenskyy resists concessions. Here’s your Monday morning brief, December 15, 2025.
From gunfire ripping through a Hanukkah crowd at Bondi Beach, to Hamas confirming the loss of a top commander under Israeli fire, to Zelensky signaling he will trade a NATO dream for enforceable security guarantees, December 14 delivered a blunt reminder that terrorism, war, and deterrence are colliding across continents at the same moment. It’s Sunday, December 14th, 2025. This is your SOFREP Evening Brief.
SOUTHCOM’s Pirate Upgrade. The mission is sus, but the fit is fire!
Some operations are designed to make headlines, but this one was built to make deadlines slip, shipments vanish from the ledger, and an assembly line in Iran go quiet weeks later when the missing parts never show.
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