News

The CIA’s decades-long Oswald cover-up is finally unraveling, Trump’s Medicaid cuts are gutting rural America like a trout on a dock, and even his “ceasefire magic” with Putin fizzled faster than a wet match—three reminders that truth, health care, and peace are all in short supply. Here is your SOFREP Brief for Saturday evening, July 5th, 2025.

York didn’t need nods or Gucci gear to be lethal—he just needed faith, a clean rifle, and the will to get up and move forward when hell broke loose.

Those who still believe Iran can be deterred by half-measures or diplomatic niceties haven’t learned a thing from the last two decades of American missteps in the Middle East.

Robin Olds roared into combat with a handlebar mustache, a middle finger to bureaucracy, and a brain wired for turning aerial warfare into an art form.

The global board’s flipped, and while the diplomats fumble for pieces, the strongmen are already playing a new game with live ammo.

While Kyiv burned under a record-breaking Russian drone assault and Hamas eyed a ceasefire deal with fingers crossed behind their back, President Trump saluted B-2 pilots at the White House—just not by name, because in 2025, even heroes have to hide. Welcome to Saturday, July 5th, 2025. This is your SOFREP Morning Brief.

Hamas weighs US-brokered ceasefire deal, Russia strikes Kyiv hard, and Congress passes major cuts. Here’s your July 4th Evening Brief.

In every platoon, there’s always that one guy who manages to be a human IED—volatile, unreliable, and liable to blow up your mission and your morale in a single bad moment.

In 2001, a pint-sized German diesel sub snuck past an entire carrier strike group managing to get within ramming distance of the mighty USS Enterprise, like a ghost in broad daylight. She fired a mock torpedo, then surfaced to wave hello with green flares—just to let everyone know they’d been “sunk.”.

This Independence Day, as we fire up the grills and look up to the skies ablaze with fireworks, let us also light the torch of accountability in our own hearts—because freedom, as our forefathers knew, isn’t a gift handed down, it’s a responsibility earned every day.

Border militarization expands, Russia ramps up chemical warfare, and more. Welcome to Friday, July 4th, 2025. This is SOFREP’s Morning Brief.

Fireworks blast in California, Gaza aid scandal, Russia backs Taliban—Thursday evening’s headlines span chaos from Esparto to Kabul.