Category: World

From Eton to Equatorial Guinea, Simon Mann’s life was a high-stakes gambit of privilege, power, and private warfare that ended not with a coup, but with a cautionary tale.

Welcome to SOFREP’s morning brief! Begin your Tuesday informed with the latest defense and global affairs stories for May 27, 2025.

Wrap up your Monday with SOFREP’s Evening Brief – covering the latest in defense and world affairs, May 26, 2025.

This isn’t immigration reform—it’s moral cowardice dressed up as national interest, tossing our Afghan brothers and sisters to the wolves after they carried our water through two decades of war.

Captain Kimberly Nicole Hampton was a trailblazer who, with unwavering courage and dedication, made the ultimate sacrifice while flying into danger, leaving behind a legacy of honor, leadership, and patriotism.

Stay updated with SOFREP’s Morning Brief for Monday, May 26, 2025, featuring key developments in defense and global affairs.

As Trump wages war on Harvard, a would-be embassy bomber gets cuffed, Iran edges closer to weapons-grade uranium, and the CIA warns the real threat might already have a badge—welcome to today’s national security gauntlet.

Exploring the shadowy depths of the CIA’s Special Activities Center and Global Response Staff, this piece unveils the pivotal yet largely unseen roles these units play in shaping global events and safeguarding American interests through clandestine operations and covert warfare.

Memorial Day doesn’t mean a three-day weekend to me—it means carrying the weight of names I’ll never stop hearing in the silence.

Welcome to Sunday, May 25, 2025. In a weekend of geopolitical whiplash, Russia and Ukraine pulled off their largest prisoner swap yet, Kim Jong Un’s prized warship flopped like a beached whale, Syria’s new leader cozied up to Turkey just as sanctions lifted, and a jet crash in fog-choked San Diego tragically exposed the cost of failing airport systems.

Good evening. From a knife attack in Hamburg’s busiest train station to Trump’s unapologetically muscular West Point speech and the sudden rollback of U.S. sanctions on post-Assad Syria, this weekend reminded us that the world isn’t getting any quieter—it’s just shifting where the noise comes from.

The Trump administration just swung a wrecking ball through Washington’s national security and energy playbooks—gutting the NSC, greenlighting battlefield-ready nuclear reactors, and watching Kyiv burn under Russian missiles all in the same 48 hours. Welcome to Saturday May 24th, 2025, this is your SOFREP morning brief.