Culture

Polynesian tattoos are no doubt nice to look at. They are not only pleasant to look at, but their meanings are also just as fascinating.

Faced with advanced weaponry during the Vietnam war, the Viet Cong’s solution against the US army’s sophisticated weapons was made up in part of booby traps made from bamboo sticks, recovered mines and bombs and even single rounds of ammunition.

SOFREP’s Matt Hill, a Marine vet and law enforcement officer working for a school district asks if TikTok is making war on America’s Kids by allowing “Challenges” that encourage teenagers to engage in felony act of vandalism, assault and even mass shootings on school campuses. TikTok is owned by a Communist Chinese company that closely cooperates with the dictates of the government in Beijing. Is TikTok permissive of these things under orders from the Communists?

Combat Veteran Heath Hansen reviews Anders Corr’s “The Concentration of Power.”

The Air Force has discharged twenty-seven enlisted airmen for refusal to get the COVID vaccine. This occurred during the ongoing battle playing out in the courts, the media and in Congress over government authority to issue such mandates in the first place.

The origins of the National Guard are older than America itself as a country. At 385 years old, the National Guard is the nation’s oldest military branch.

Why are we seeing so many senior officers being replaced for “A lack of confidence” in their leadership qualities these days? It’s a system that is supposed to weed out weak leaders before they can be in a position to do real harm. Maybe the way we now evaluate leadership has changed and we didn’t notice it.

Award-winning author Toby Harnden has written a riveting account of the very first days of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan that followed the September 11th Attacks in 2001. Harnden’s book, “First Casualty: The Untold Story of the CIA to Avenge 9/11,” relies extensively on personal interviews with the particpants of these early battles to overthrow Taliban control of Afghanistan.

SOFREP’s resident Football expert and Senior Editor Steve Balestrieri gives you the rundown on the 122nd Army-Navy football game.

Explore the ramifications of what would happen if Artificial intelligence surpassed the intelligence of humans in what is called the “Singularity.”

Under The Influence In one of the stranger, side-stories about Pearl Harbor and the immediate aftermath is the story that when President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave his speech to Congress on December 8, 1941, after the Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, that he quite possibly was under the influence of cocaine.  The issue was […]

Veterans Day is a day for all veterans to be recognized, regardless of the era that they served in or how long their service lasted.