Expert Analysis

SOFREP member Tom Johansmeyer explains why cyber-attacks are a sideshow in the larger conflict in Ukraine.

The exchange of Brittany Griner for Viktor Bout probably makes Americans traveling overseas much less safe from arrest and imprisonment on bogus charges.

A month old story about Lockheed Martine building new missile launchers may tell us something about US strategy in the war in Ukraine

Ukraine keeps knocking down most of the multi-million dollar cruise missiles the Russians launch at them in an attempt to weaken their spirit and destroy their infrastructure.

As global power dynamics change, so does the role of American Special Operations Forces. SOCOM is tasked with keeping up with those changes to keep SOF relevant and effective. Presented here is part of their plan to do just that.

The destruction of the Nordstream 1 and 2 pipelines was of strategic importance in the war in Ukraine. We have a look at the events and offer a hypothesis on who pulled it off and how.

Video of a massacre of Russian troops by Ukrainian soldiers has appeared, but was it a war crime? Or was it the result of a different war crime committed by these now dead Russian soldiers?

There is talk of Belarus entering the conflict in Ukraine with ground forces. Ukraine is taking no chances, but SOFREP thinks Belarus is destined to play a different role in the conflict.

The US Air Force has started to phase out aging aircraft in order to fund new replacements.

The coming winter war in Ukraine may prove to be Russia’s undoing. Russia has had major problems supplying its demoralized army in good weather, and winter brings all new problems that have to be dealt with.

Russia is blamed for missiles that have landed inside Poland killing two people, but they may not have been Russian given the evidence so far.

As long as Moscow tries to force Kyiv to accept the Minsk agreements, which would result in a more humiliating outcome for Ukraine than the full-scale invasion in February, Vladimir Putin will feel validated.