Category: Expert Analysis

News of North Korea’s latest nuclear development, which appears to be a hydrogen bomb estimated to be five to ten times more powerful than any previous nuclear ordnance North Korea possessed, has sent shockwaves around the world.  No longer does Kim merely possess the destructive power of an atom bomb, he now has a thermonuclear […]

The DoD will announce the name of a new director for the Defense Prisoner of War/Missing in Action Accounting Agency (DPAA) Tuesday after 16 months of inaction through two administrations and some in-house machinations, SOFREP has learned. Today, there are 1,603 Americans still listed as missing in Southeast Asia (SEA) from the Vietnam War, including […]

Long story short: The first five people to post a picture of themselves with their dog in the comments section below this article will each win their own copy of “Megan Leavey” on Bluray. Back in May, I had the opportunity to get a sneak peek of the movie “Megan Leavey,” before it was released […]

Here in the relative safety and comfort of our American way of life, we’ve come to a crossroads: thanks to a strong economy and the variety of food sources afforded to us by way of capitalism, we’ve all taken to eating as a hobby, rather than a utility.  Our monkey brains are hard-wired to appreciate […]

Back in April of 2015, Netflix launched season one of the Marvel series “Daredevil,” and the internet collectively sighed, bracing ourselves for another ugly outing of the character we watched Ben Affleck butcher twelve years prior… but many of my nerd brethren nonetheless buckled in to see what this new extension of the Marvel Cinematic […]

For decades, the U.S. government has been accused of not only secretly investigating the existence of extra-terrestrials on and around our planet, but of conducting a generation-spanning cover up aimed at keeping the public at large in the dark about such visitors.  For many Americans, these accusations are little more than a plotline in some […]

The United States Marine Corps is no stranger to high-profile guests.  Katy Perry once filmed an entire music video, that aside from insinuating women should shave their heads prior to enlistment, served as much as a recruiting commercial as it did a chance for Perry to strut her stuff.  These kinds of deals are beneficial […]

Recently an article on the Huffington Post posited that service in the United States military leads to the “unfortunate side effect” of developing racial prejudices, a stance the writer supported by explaining that his uncle was a police officer in the NYPD, and also prejudiced.  I wish I could offer you a more logical explanation […]

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A report filed by a panel of independent U.N. experts filed earlier this month shows that two North Korean shipments to a Syrian government agency responsible for the country’s chemical weapons program have been intercepted within the last six months, indicating that the two nations have been cooperating in the development of weapons of mass […]

President Trump’s announcement of a new strategy for the war in Afghanistan on Monday brought about a wide variety of responses.  Many hoped that the President’s “America First” mindset would lead him to withdraw U.S. forces from the nation’s longest war, while some others lamented the idea of yet another troop surge… but President Trump’s […]

The designated marksmanship rifle has a unique role to fill in combat. While it can never fill the role of a sniper rifle it is designed for on demand accuracy. Primarily used as a mid range precision weapon, the DMR allows the end-user to eliminate enemy personnel on a squad level while his colleagues deal […]