Military

You don’t surge tankers, raise force protection levels, and send the Marines east unless somebody, somewhere, just greenlit the next chapter.

When the WC-135R fires up its engines and climbs into the stratosphere, it’s not chasing storms or enemy fighters—it’s hunting radioactive ghosts that might signal the world’s next nightmare.

When it comes to missile defense, you can’t afford to gamble—standard doctrine may call for firing two or three interceptors per threat, but with modern missile swarms and decoys, it’s a long shot at best.

When generals choose silence over courage, they abandon the very principles they swore to uphold and leave our soldiers to navigate a battlefield where integrity is the first casualty.

Chief Warrant Officer 2 Dustin K. Wright didn’t die in combat, but in the unforgiving crucible of preparation—where the Army sharpens its blade and sometimes bleeds in the process.

Turning the Army’s 250th birthday into a $45 million political pageant insults the very soldiers it should be honoring—reducing centuries of sacrifice to a hollow campaign backdrop.

Woody Williams didn’t just carry a flamethrower into the jaws of hell—he carried the weight of his fallen brothers, and somehow kept walking.

Bob Lang’s cartoon is a bayonet-sharp jab at a culture where shouting over ceremony has become the new form of patriotism.

On a day when Iran threatens to choke off the world’s oil supply, DC rolls out tanks for a $45 million parade, a Marine vet congressman tells the Secretary of Defense to take a hike, and a fake cop guns down Minnesota lawmakers in cold blood—America feels less like it’s celebrating 250 years and more like it’s holding the line on chaos. Welcome to SOFREP’s Evening Brief for Saturday, June 14, 2025.

President Trump turned what should have been a unifying tribute to our Army’s 250th birthday into a partisan spectacle that disrespected the troops and dishonored the very Constitution they swear to defend.

As Israel and Iran trade missiles in the Middle East, Washington, D.C. braces for a politically charged military parade met with veteran-led protests and arrests, while 200 Marines are quietly deployed to Los Angeles in a historic and controversial mission to guard federal buildings amid growing unrest at home. Welcome to Saturday, June 14, 2025. This is your SOFREP Morning Brief.

Israel won the first round in this fight, now time will tell if Iran can regroup or if they’ll be taken down for the count in round two.