Category: North America

Nuclear weapons have been an integral part of American offensive and defensive capabilities since their very inception.  Ever since J. Robert Oppenheimer uttered the famous words, “I am become death, the destroyer of worlds,” in awe and terror while witnessing the destructive power of splitting the atom, the United States has done everything it could […]

In the 1970’s, terrorist kidnappings were widely feared and personal security teams were deployed by governments and the wealthy to protect likely kidnappees. The guys at H&K wanted to sell the MP-5 to these teams, but had to come up with a discreet way to carry it around.  They built a polymer and aluminum brief […]

Surveillance video shows a dark-colored vehicle pulling from a parking spot and slowly starting to drive away at a gas station in Birmingham, Ala. The trunk pops open and a woman, seemingly trapped inside, propels herself from the car — landing on her back before running inside a convenience store. Frantically, she pleads: “Please help me! Please help […]

A mass grave was recently discovered in the Mexican state of Veracruz containing more than 250 human skulls that all appear to have been the victims of cartel violence in recent years. “For many years, the drug cartels disappeared people and the authorities were complacent,” Jorge Winckler, the state attorney general, said in a television […]

The U.S. Marine Corps has been rocked by scandal in recent weeks, after investigative journalist and Marine veteran Thomas James Brennan uncovered a secret Facebook group full of Marines and veterans that were sharing thousands of pictures and videos of female service members in various states of undress, many without their permission, and some without […]

In 2014, a group of hackers made off with the account information for 500 million Yahoo users, gaining access to their e-mails and other Yahoo applications.  At the time, it was the largest disclosed data breach in history.  On Wednesday, the Justice Department is moving to indict those responsible, including two criminal hackers, and two […]

Members of the National Guard are being activated all along the East Coast to be ready in case civilians or first responders need their assistance in the aftermath of Winter Storm Stella’s assault on the Northeast. According to the National Guard Bureau, as many as 1,700 guardsman have been activated as far south as Virginia […]

Marines and veterans sharing nude images of female service members on web pages and in Facebook groups like Marines United have recently come to the forefront of concerns levied by policy makers and military leaders throughout the country, and with good reason.  As a number of us here at SOFREP have made clear, these practices […]

Private and commercial space ventures have been garnering headlines in the United States for months now, but last week NASA took a big step toward getting back in the fight as congress passed the NASA Transition Authorization Act of 2017, authorizing $19.5 billion dollars in spending for the space agency in 2017 and providing guidance […]

An image of the U.S. Navy’s Virginia class submarine, the USS Mississippi, appeared on the cover of Honolulu’s Star Advertiser earlier this week, as the submarine returned to its home port at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.  Although the image itself is a pleasant one, depicting the massive nuclear submarine juxtaposed against the serene landscape of the […]

In summer 1999, Salvador “El Chava” Gomez, who had helped guide the Gulf cartel to the top of Mexico’s narco hierarchy, was gunned down, reportedly on the orders of his long-time friend and partner, Osiel Cardenas Guillen. The killing earned Cardenas the nickname, “El Mata Amigos,” or “the friend killer.” And while he hated that […]

Written for Ms Florence Maestes; God keep you Lost Girls don’t go to Girl Scout meetings or slumber parties. Lost Girls go to the corner of Fifth and Main to fix, or hook a trick. They juggle Johns. Lost Girls don’t sit at the Thanksgiving day table with the adults or the kids. They eat […]