Planter-turned-mercenary Jean “Black Jack” Schramme carved his legend in the Congo Crisis—a self-styled guardian of order who tried to bind a failing state with Katangan steel and hired guns.
Coast Guard Icebreaker debut, US-China Panama canal clash, and EU warns Trump ahead of Putin summit. Welcome to your Tuesday Morning Brief.
Hamadeh’s Syria mission, SOF hazard tech, Nigeria gang raid, and Zelenskyy’s warning. It is Monday evening. This is your SOFREP Brief.
Trump didn’t summon an army of occupation; he pulled a field-expedient tourniquet—the D.C. Guard—to cinch the capital’s bleeding edges and keep the streets from turning into a fracture line.
Appeasing dictators is not a strategy for peace—it is an open invitation for tyranny to spread unchecked across the globe.
Fred B. McGee wasn’t chasing glory on that Korean hillside—he was just stubbornly, relentlessly doing his job, one impossible step at a time, until every man he could save was off that mountain alive.
From Trump’s DC crackdown plan to Gaza’s expanding war and Australia’s Palestinian recognition push, here’s your Monday morning brief.
The same guys who once tried to crucify me for telling our stories are now slinging war tales to sell vitamin gummies with discount codes, and the hypocrisy is louder than any gunfight we ever fought.
Ceding Ukrainian land to Russia would not only violate Ukraine’s sovereignty and international law, but also reward aggression, embolden further expansionism, and undermine the global order the U.S. and its allies are bound to defend.
In Ukraine’s war, Elon Musk’s satellites shifted from lifeline to leverage, and that power—once a gift—became a weapon of his choosing.
A 22-year-old tank crewman with a top-secret clearance allegedly tried to trade America’s most guarded armor secrets for a Russian passport, proving the deadliest threats can come from within.
(The following tribute was co-authored with Frumentarius by semi-regular contributor to this space, John Martin, with contribution also from Brandon Webb. John is the Republican county clerk of Crawford County, Missouri, and a historian who has specialized in Naval Special Warfare (NSW) history for over 15 years.) At the end of his book, Unleash the […]
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