Expert Analysis

Russia is incapable of achieving air superiority in Ukraine. Here’s why.

Experts are concerned that if Luhansk in Ukraine joins the Russian Federation that Ukraine’s troops battling to retake the region will then be invading Russian territory.” We take a look at these claims.

President Zelensky is asking the US for more powerful weapons systems, and we are not so sure that’s a good idea.

As Ukraine finds mass graves in liberated Izyum and Germany fails to deliver on its promises of weapons, Ukraine faces a Dilemma as winter approaches in consolidating its gains in recapturing lost ground.

Ukraine is going to have a POW problem with prisoners they can’t exchange, Russia can’t get fresh units to move into Ukraine and one of our predictions about Russia and the war, comes true, about two weeks late.

A panicked retreat from Kharkiv, an intense close-quarters firefight caught on video, Chechen solidarity with Russian is showing signs of breaking, and a humorous video of a fleeing tank masks the reality that panic in retreat can be deadly.

Ten years after the attack on the US Consulate in Benghazi and the masterminds are still at large and operating out of Libya. Global Threat Intel Analyst Sarah Adams gives SOFREP a three-part plan to capture them.

Controversy over the identity of a captured Russian officer, Ukrainian tanks may be fighting at night with thermal optics. And a pro-Russian military V-blogger has a change of heart.

The Ukrainian offensive makes real gains as Russian resistance appears to collapse into a route to the far side of the Oskil River.

Ukraine has pushed deeply into Russian-occupied territory and may trap a fairly large number of Russian troops with their back to a river. And Ukraine is proving the tank is not dead, it was just misused by Russian forces in the first months of the war.

The death of Seaman Kyle Mullins in BUD/S training to become a navy SEAL has the New York Times claiming the training program harbors a culture of brutality, cheating and drugs. SOFREP looks at the evidence of these claims and draws a very different conclusion.

Sanctions are beginning to cripple Russia’s rail system which is critical not just for supplying their troops in Ukraine, but also shipping coal to China and goods to their own citizens.