Tag: Cambodia

Read the exclusive account of what kinds of gear SOG recon teams carried during their top-secret missions into Laos, Cambodia, and North Vietnam.

Adventure has its own discipline: it makes you earn every mile, read every piece of water, and accept that the best days are sometimes the ones where you catch nothing except the truth about why you came.

I am not crossing into Cambodia because I want to, but because borders now behave like quiet intelligence services, and once you have been attached to a war, even a routine visa run starts feeling like you are moving through someone else’s threat matrix.

From where I sit in Phuket, watching FPV suicide drones carve into Thai positions from a frontier run by casinos and scam compounds, it is clear this is no border misunderstanding but a conflict engineered by foreign operators using Cambodia’s criminal economy as cover.

From a beach town built on smoothies and Muay Thai camps, I am watching two neighbors drag a century of bad maps, criminal economies, and political ego back to the edge of a shooting war.

Gaza talks, EU sanctions, and North Korea’s missile test dominate global headlines. Here’s your Thursday morning rundown, October 23, 2025.

From humanitarian corridors in Gaza and peace talks in Malaysia, to a young cadet’s tragic death at Fort Knox and Elon Musk yanking the plug on Starlink mid-battle in Ukraine, it’s been a week that reminds us power, conflict, and consequence don’t always come in uniform. Welcome to your Sunday Evening Brief.

An escalating border war in Southeast Asia, a deadly dorm shooting in New Mexico, and the hero’s welcome of a convicted terrorist in Beirut all point to a world growing more volatile, where violence—whether across borders, on campuses, or from decades-old grudges—keeps finding new ways to erupt. Welcome to your morning brief for Saturday, July 26, 2025.

Even the land of smiles has a breaking point—and this time, it’s launching F-16s instead of fire lanterns.

US boosts Ukraine, Thai-Cambodian clash turns deadly, and a spy scandal erupts in Norway. Here’s your Thursday morning brief, July 24, 2025.

Iran threatens NPT exit, Gaza starves, Russia rearms, USAF grounds M18, and Trump reignites the Russia probe—here’s tonight’s brief.

Ceasefire collapses in Syria, US expands migrant detention, and more. Here’s what you need to know this Friday evening, July 18, 2025.