Expert Analysis

SOFREP provides you with an up-to-date report on what Salafi jihadist inspired terrorists are up to worldwide.

If you think America is doing a good job at promoting freedom and democracy around the globe ask yourself this question. Is the world safer and more stable today than it was when the twin towers came crashing down on 9/11?

Russian forces and Wagner Group mercenaries continue pounding the city of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine, slowly forcing Ukrainian forces to exit the city. But at what cost?

One year into the Russo-Ukraine War, SOFREP goes over the lessons learned in this conflict so far.

It has been one year since Vladimir Putin’s army invaded Ukraine. Since that time, the two warring nations have experienced incalculable death and destruction. One can only hope that 2023 sees an end to the bloody conflict.

Scott Sweetow, Former Acting Director of the ATF’s Terrorist Explosive Device Analytical Center (TEDAC) gives SOFREP a fascinating account of demining operations in Ukraine which is becoming the most mined place on Earth

In an, until very recently, almost unheard of event, an American F-22 Raptor shot down an object of unknown origin, making its way slowly across the Great White North. This is the latest in three similar events to take place over North American airspace in the last several days.

If Putin nuked Kyiv tomorrow, the West would likely bend the knee.

The death of Kyle Mullen during BUD/S training in Coronado California and the importance of the SEAL training program are addressed by former Navy SEAL and Naval Criminal Investigation Service Agent David Brown in this SOFREP Member submission.

The UK has announced it will send 14 Challenger II MBTs to Ukraine. It’s a mixed blessing for Zelensky

Japan will double its defense spending in the face of emerging threats by China, North Korea and Russia, and may even build a new aircraft carrier, but it it may be feeding the dragon it wants to defend itself from as well.

Can the “Merchant of Death” go back into the arms business? Why did the US limit the range of HIMARS in Ukraine and is Russia threatening to march into Kazakhstan next?