Medal of Honor Monday: James H. Howard’s One-Man Air Force
On a winter day over Oschersleben, James H. Howard turned a lone P-51 into a brick wall for the Luftwaffe, riding nerves of steel and dead-eye gunnery to shove a sky full of Fortresses home.
News
Morning Brief: Record-Long Government Shutdown, Israel Receives Three More Hostage Remains, Hegseth Reaffirms Vietnam Ties
Trump holds firm as shutdown drags on; global tensions flare from Gaza to Ukraine. Here’s your Monday Morning Brief rundown, November 3, 2025.
Evening Brief: Harvard Medical School Explosion Believed to Be Intentional, Chicago Takes on ICE Block by Block, Hegseth Hits Hanoi
Before sunrise Boston hunts two masked runners after a Harvard Med lab floor blast, Chicago neighborhoods turn block chats into shields against ICE, and in Hanoi Pete Hegseth pairs war legacy work with lift and logistics as U.S. and Vietnam tighten defense ties. It’s Sunday, November 2nd, 2025. This is your SOFREP Evening Brief.
Sudan’s War in Context: History, Factions, and Perspectives Behind the Crisis
From Darfur to Khartoum, Sudan’s war reads like the worst kind of rerun: militias rebranded, generals trading uniforms for power, and civilians paying in blood while the world shrugs.
Is it Time to End the American Global War on Terror?
Terrorism isn’t an enemy to be defeated, it’s a symptom of despair and miscalculation—and until America accepts that truth, every strike it makes will plant the seeds of the next war.
SOFREP Sunday Cartoon: Nuclear Policy for the Reality TV Age
When nuclear policy sounds like a bathroom joke, FAFO stops being a meme and starts reading like the instruction label on a world-ending button.
Ex Army Sergeant Gets Prison for Trying to Feed China U.S. Secrets
A former Army HUMINT team leader who treated Top Secret access like a ticket to Beijing now has four years to think about the keys he tried to hand a hostile service.
Morning Brief: 10 Injured in UK Train Stabbing, Trump Threatens Military Action in Nigeria, Narco-Trafficking Strike Kills 3 in Caribbean
From a blood-slicked LNER carriage to a White House red line on Nigeria and a Navy strike sinking a smuggler in the Caribbean, Saturday night showed how violence, policy, and power can collide at speed. Welcome to Sunday, November 2, 2025. This is your SOFREP Morning Brief.
Evening Brief: Joint Task Force Bravo Deploys to Jamaica, Maduro Readies for a Fight, Atrocities in Sudan
From U.S. helicopters pushing relief into storm battered Jamaica to Maduro drilling four million militia for a fight he says is coming while El Fasher bleeds under RSF atrocities, this week reads like a field manual on power, logistics, and civilians paying the bill. It’s Saturday, November 1, 2025. This is your SOFREP Evening Brief.
SOFREP Saturday Cartoon: Season’s Bleedings from the Kremlin
Putin’s idea of holiday cheer is a million body bags strung up like ornaments—proof that in the Kremlin, even failure gets a parade.
The Jukebox: Delta Force Remembrances – Wish You Were Here
In a quiet bar where ghosts keep their own rhythm, Cordova’s three plays of “Wish You Were Here” turn grief into a kind of communion for the living.
The Bolduc Brief: The Government Shutdown – A National Security Concern Amid Congressional and Presidential Failures
When Washington lets the government grind to a halt over partisan trench fights, it creates a self-inflicted readiness gap that our adversaries are eager to exploit.
