Category: Expert Analysis

We have to demand better from both our political leadership and the modern news media.

We think rumors of a coup in China are nonsense, the navy has decommissioned 5 of our most powerful warships in the face of a growing naval threat from China and Ukraine has received a long-awaited boost to its air defenses that may have just given Russian air forces a black eye.

A bogus Rand Report is going around claiming the US planned the entire Ukraine war prior to January 2022 to destroy both Russia and the economy of Europe. We detail why faked report done in a cartoonishly amateur way doesn’t really matter to people it is trying to convince.

Russia calls up 300,000 “Reservists.” Don’t think that this means 300,000 combat troops are going to the front. We explain what they are probably going to do with all these people if they can find them.

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.