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Latest Op-Ed stories, analysis, and updates from SOFREP.

Dusty Turner, Former Navy SEAL Trainee, Walks Free After 30 Years in Prison

Dusty Turner, Former Navy SEAL Trainee, Walks Free After 30 Years in Prison

March 5, 2026

Dusty Turner walked out of prison Thursday morning after 30 years and seven months behind bars, stepping into a world that moved on without him while the arguments about the case that put him there continue to echo decades later.

Why Most People Quit Before They Compete

Why Most People Quit Before They Compete

March 5, 2026

Most people never fail at the thing they want, they fail in the comparison they make before they ever step into the arena.

The Iran War: A Thumb Nail Strategy Analysis by Robert Bruce Adolph

The Iran War: A Thumb Nail Strategy Analysis by Robert Bruce Adolph

March 5, 2026

Strategy is not measured by the number of targets struck or missiles launched, but by whether the enemy’s will to resist collapses, and recent American wars have shown how badly those two things can diverge.

War Powers in Real Time: What Happens If Congress Pushes Back During Active Combat?

War Powers in Real Time: What Happens If Congress Pushes Back During Active Combat?

March 4, 2026

When American aircraft are already in the air and forces are in contact, the war powers debate stops being constitutional theory and becomes a real-time test of whether the United States can fight a war without fracturing the political framework that authorizes it.

USMC Colonel (Ret) Eric Buer – The Rise of the Iranian Proxy: A Fool’s Errand

USMC Colonel (Ret) Eric Buer – The Rise of the Iranian Proxy: A Fool’s Errand

March 2, 2026

Amidst the shadowy web of proxies and patrons, Tehran’s gamble with its Axis of Resistance exposes both its strategic cunning and its Achilles’ heel, threading a precarious line between regional dominance and diplomatic isolation.

SOFREP Cartoon: Is the VA Looking for Ways to Pay Disabled Veterans Less?

SOFREP Cartoon: Is the VA Looking for Ways to Pay Disabled Veterans Less?

March 2, 2026

If feeling better becomes the trigger for getting paid less, then something in the system has lost sight of what those injuries cost in the first place.

The Thumbs-Up and the Bomb: Operation Epic Fury – The Timing Deserves More Than a Headline

The Thumbs-Up and the Bomb: Operation Epic Fury – The Timing Deserves More Than a Headline

March 1, 2026

Less than 24 hours after a televised promise of nuclear breakthrough and “peace,” bombs fell on Iran, and whether that thumbs-up was theater or the strike was predecided, the sequence raises hard questions about intent, leverage, and the kind of stability long-term security actually depends on.

The Spell You’re Already Under: How Words Secretly Tell You Who To Be… And Why You Should Stop Wanting To Listen

The Spell You’re Already Under: How Words Secretly Tell You Who To Be… And Why You Should Stop Wanting To Listen

February 26, 2026

Words don’t cast spells over your life, they just build frames, and if you’re not paying attention to who built the frame and why, you’ll start mistaking someone else’s narrative for your own truth.

The Bolduc Brief: The Power of Service Over Self: The Importance of Discernment in Leadership

The Bolduc Brief: The Power of Service Over Self: The Importance of Discernment in Leadership

February 26, 2026

The tape over your heart carries the weight of the mission, and when you let that matter more than the one with your own name on it, discipline stops being a rule and becomes a choice to serve something greater than yourself.

Imminence and Authority: What Law Governs a Presidential Strike on Iran?

Imminence and Authority: What Law Governs a Presidential Strike on Iran?

February 25, 2026

Whether a President may strike Iran without Congress turns not on politics but on a single legal threshold, the difference between stopping an imminent attack and launching a preventive war.

The Pizza Theorem: Nobody Wins the Argument… When a University Does Its Job

The Pizza Theorem: Nobody Wins the Argument… When a University Does Its Job

February 24, 2026

When the shouting stopped and the questions started, three kids in a sticky-floored pizza joint learned that justice, like most hard truths, refuses to fit inside a single statistic or a single story.

Sovereignty Without Security: The Western Hemisphere’s Cartel Crisis

Sovereignty Without Security: The Western Hemisphere’s Cartel Crisis

February 24, 2026

Across the Western Hemisphere, governments invoke sovereignty while cartels exercise coercive authority, and until security and law are restored in fact, not rhetoric, the contest for control will continue to tilt toward those who rule through fear.

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