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.
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It amazed me how often I saw SEAL sniper students make the stalk successfully, set up position for firing with time to spare, but never take the shot.
War is not glorious; it is the white hot rattle of a MEDEVAC, two blood slick hands locked after an IED blast near Kandahar, and a young sergeant who learns the hard Latin that war is only sweet for those who have not been through it.
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.
Harrison turned the Navy’s front office into a command post, but when Hung Cao’s confirmation made that turf grab look like a blockade, Hegseth ran the FAFO playbook, pulled the plug, and reminded the E-Ring that power without permission is a short tour.
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.
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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.
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