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Facing Kaliningrad, Belarus, and a live war next door, Poland is pushing its F-16s to the Viper standard with APG-83 radar, Viper Shield, and standoff punch to hold the line while F-35s spin up.

National Guards in Chicago, Gaza talks in Egypt, Russia pounds Ukraine, more news. Here’s your Monday morning rundown, October 6, 2025.

From Rubio warning that Gaza’s war is still live and the hostage file will prove it, to Montgomery’s nightlife district turned casualty scene with two dead and twelve wounded, to Chicago’s Brighton Park where a boxed in Border Patrol convoy met ramming cars and gunfire, the weekend showed fragile talks, lethal streets, and truth that lives on tape. It’s Sunday, October 5, 2025. This is your SOFREP Evening Brief.

As a federal judge slams the brakes on Trump’s Portland troop move and Gaza still shakes under fire despite a White House peace pitch, Andrej Babiš rides a populist surge that could tilt Prague’s compass toward Orbán and away from Brussels and Kyiv in a three front stress test for Western resolve. Welcome to Sunday, October 5th, 2025. This is your SOFREP Sunday Morning Brief.

As Treasury flirts with a $1 Trump coin stamped “FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT” and runs into the living portraits rule, Hamas says it will free every hostage under Trump’s 72 hour Gaza plan while ducking disarmament, and drones over Denmark turn Europe’s airspace into a hybrid battlefield that drains NATO’s time, fuel, and focus. It’s Saturday, October 4th, 2025. This is your SOFREP evening brief.

Command squeezes inches from the ranks and calls it readiness while the real heavyweight, Waste, gulps taxpayer smoothies through a golden straw and rolls past running troops in a golf cart.

I missed my family terribly, yet as we set the conditions for others to carry on, I felt bound to Iraq by hard-won trust and wondered if leaving would betray the mission and the family of man we had become.

As Sanae Takaichi shatters precedent to lead a minority government in Tokyo, Trump sends California Guard units into a courtroom fight over Portland, and Sophie Roske’s eight year sentence for plotting to kill Justice Brett Kavanaugh shows how raw and volatile the moment has become. It’s Saturday, October 4th, 2025. This is your SOFREP morning brief.

US strikes cartels, shutdown deepens, Hamas weighs Trump’s Gaza peace plan terms. Here’s what’s making headlines this Friday evening.

Washington has crossed a legal Rubicon, labeling Caribbean cartels unlawful combatants and unleashing a wartime hunt at sea while Congress and rights groups sharpen their knives.

When a televised roll call of admirals replaces a clear mission, you know the brass has swollen, the bureaucracy is smothering the fight, and our rivals are happy to watch us polish our parade skills while they sharpen their knives.

Shutdown strains troops, Israel halts flotilla, Taiwan on alert for China. Your SOFREP intel drop for Friday, October 3, 2025.