FBI gate crash, Trump meets Starmer, China stirs tensions. It’s Thursday, September 18, 2025. This is your SOFREP Morning Brief.
Roosevelt Roads is awake again—an 11,000-foot spear thrust into the Caribbean, where F-35s and Ospreys turn a once-quiet slab of concrete into America’s forward deck for interdiction, deterrence, and the next storm that dares roll through.
The war of terror is not fought with bombs or bullets, but in the human heart, where fear seeks to claim ground that only we can choose to surrender.
Retired Adm. Robert P. Burke’s fall from the Navy’s upper deck to a prison cell shows how the revolving door between four stars and six-figure “leadership training” gigs can turn honor into collateral.
Midshipman’s threat sparks Naval Academy lockdown, leads to federal charge. It’s Wednesday, September 17, 2025. This is your SOFREP Morning Brief.
The so-called “Española” brigade—born from Russia’s football hooligan underworld—has become both a neo-Nazi mercenary force and a combat testbed for Moscow’s newest assault rifles in Ukraine.
When the courtyard turned into a killing ground at Baghdad Airport, Paul R. Smith climbed into the turret, took the fight on his shoulders, and made damn sure his men walked away alive.
Beijing’s parade wasn’t a nostalgia act—it was a live-fire syllabus on how China plans to fight: with massed autonomy, spectrum dominance, and algorithms woven into steel.
Vegas may be a city that never sleeps, but that day, standing in front of Chainsaw with his broken cane and unwavering grin, I knew that some connections run deeper than any lights, noise, or the ghosts we carry in our heads.
A bogus online threat spun Annapolis into chaos, ending with a midshipman mistakenly attacking a police officer and getting shot in the confusion.
Years of envy and humiliation had hardened into a poverty of consciousness, where cruelty was mistaken for devotion and crime disguised itself as holy war.
When the smoke of rumor is thicker than the facts, you steer by the brightest light—and right now, that’s the Navy’s plain statement: lockdown for threats, details still unknown.
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