Joe Biden calls Russia the “largest threat” to democracy in final speech as Veep

Joe Biden calls Russia the “largest threat” to democracy in final speech as Veep

In his final speech before leaving office as Vice President, Joe Biden described Russia as the largest threat to democracy in the world today. Russia has become a common topic of discussion within the American political sphere in recent months, as allegations of Russian attempts at tampering with the U.S. Presidential election, as well as […]

Top 5 questions for the CIA on Russia collection in the Trump administration

Top 5 questions for the CIA on Russia collection in the Trump administration

By now, if you are at all keeping up with current events within national politics and/or the national security world, you are aware of the feud that has erupted between Donald J. Trump and the intelligence community.  Here is a primer, if you still need one. I should say a few things before we get […]

Obama’s final press conference: Concerns about Russia, clemency for Chelsea Manning

Obama’s final press conference: Concerns about Russia, clemency for Chelsea Manning

Departing President Barack Obama participated in his final press conference while at the helm of the federal government today. The president opened by addressing the hospitalization of George H.W. Bush and his wife Barbara, saying that he and Michelle Obama are sending their prayers for a speedy recovery. President Obama also credited the press for […]

Former President George H.W. Bush and wife Barbara both hospitalized

Former President George H.W. Bush and wife Barbara both hospitalized

Former President George H.W. Bush along with his wife, Barbara Bush, have both been hospitalized, according to a statement made by their spokesman, Jim McGrath, on Wednesday. The Senior George Bush, father of forty-third president George W. Bush, sought medical treatment on Saturday as a result of “an acute respiratory problem stemming from pneumonia.” McGrath […]

Cyber defense, cyber war and information operations

Cyber defense, cyber war and information operations

CYBERWAR IS COMING is the name of a paper written in the early nineties. Today, this body of work is close to prescient. But, its revelations have not yet come to pass in entirety. We’ve covered cyber war in some quantity here at SOFREP. Cyber alongside tactical ground assaults as a leverage of power before, after, […]

Will cyberwar tie into ground warfare?

Will cyberwar tie into ground warfare?

Ukraine is the setting for what is a giant experiment of the next generation of warfare. Many of the West’s previous understandings of combat and war still weigh heavily in its planning. The U.S. spends and allocates resources toward whatever is necessary to adapt to the future of war. However, much of the focus is on technology alone. […]

Former President George H.W. Bush hospitalized

Former President George H.W. Bush hospitalized

Former U.S. President George H.W. Bush has been hospitalized in Houston, CBS Houston affiliate KHOU television reported on Wednesday, citing his office chief of staff. Bush, 92, was in stable condition and “doing fine,” Jean Becker told the television station. Bush is expected to go home in a couple of days, Becker told KHOU. Reuters […]

Putin: Those who “fabricated” Trump dossier are “worse than prostitutes”

Putin: Those who “fabricated” Trump dossier are “worse than prostitutes”

Russian President, Vladimir Putin, dismissed allegations regarding the Kremlin maintaining a dossier of damning information about American President Elect Donald Trump for use in black mail on Tuesday, referring to the idea as “rubbish.” Vladimir Putin, along with the Russian intelligence community, were said to have had long-standing ties with Donald Trump in an unsubstantiated […]

Trump’s attitudes toward the EU and NATO could lead to ‘unprecedented changes in US foreign policy’

Trump’s attitudes toward the EU and NATO could lead to ‘unprecedented changes in US foreign policy’

If President-elect Donald Trump’s recent statements on the European Union and the NATO are any indication, his administration could bring unprecedented changes to longstanding alliances between Western countries. In an interview published Sunday with the Times of London and Bild newspapers, Trump questioned the value of the NATO alliance when he was asked whether he […]

Trump reaffirms NATO’s concerns, suggests lifting sanctions on Russia

Trump reaffirms NATO’s concerns, suggests lifting sanctions on Russia

President-elect Donald Trump granted a joint interview to the Times of London and Bild, a German publication, over the weekend, in which he laid out portions of his foreign policy strategy. Among the issues addressed were the sanctions placed on Russia as a result of its military annexation of Crimea, and how the incoming president views […]

President Obama chooses to commute Chelsea Manning’s WikiLeaks sentence

President Obama chooses to commute Chelsea Manning’s WikiLeaks sentence

Outgoing President Barack Obama has chosen to commute the vast majority of Chelsea Manning’s thirty-five-year prison sentence for leaking American intelligence information to Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks. Manning has served seven years of her thirty-five-year sentence thus far, and is now scheduled to be set free in five months, on May 17th of […]