Category: Europe

The US government announced that it had uncovered plans of the Russians making a gruesome fake video as a pretext to invade Ukraine.

China’s Xi Jinping and Russia’s Vladimir Putin join forces against the West during a meeting ahead of the Beijing Winter Olympics.

Lithuanian gov’t accelerates its purchase of M270 MLRS and encourages Germany and the US to send more troops to their country amid tensions.

TikTok is now being used as an unlikely source of vital information about Russian military movements along the Ukrainian-Russian border.

Zelensky has told the West to stop creating panic among Ukrainian citizens as it poses a threat to the Ukrainian economy.

Did you know that the Vatican doesn’t have a military? If so, how did it survive World War I and II? Who guards the Pope during normal days

In observation of the recent International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we bring to you an unsung Holocaust hero that history books often leave out. This is a story of a British banker who took a two-week holiday to Prague in 1938 in what was then Czechoslovakia and left with over 669 Jewish children, saving them from […]

Edelweiss flowers are small, white flowers usually found in the Alps. For the German soldiers, they meant so much more.

The new year always brings the promise of new things being just on the horizon. The world is a volatile place today, with shifting economies, the continued presence of Islamist terrorism around the world, and the Great Game of competition between nations seeking diplomatic, strategic, and economic advantages around the globe. Everyone is a prognosticator […]

From Russia to China and even TikTok subverting law and order in public schools, this is the SOFREP week in review.

In a seeming de-escalation of the security crisis along the Russian-Ukrainian border, Moscow has withdrawn ten-thousand of the estimated 110,000 troops it has positioned near the border. Moscow did this even as it reasserted its demand of a legal guarantee that Ukraine will never be admitted to NATO, that the U.S. cease selling arms to Ukraine and that it act as mediator in negotiations between Russia, Ukraine and European countries.

The air war over Europe was a bloody affair for Allied pilots flying bombing missions over occupied Europe and Germany. Large bomber formations were savaged by flak and/or German fighters. Losses were so heavy that any crew that survived 25 missions were sent home. Few did. Things would soon change, however, as the P-51 Mustang […]