Canada

Canadian officials from the bi-national aerospace defense command NORAD weigh in on recent events over their airspace, and they might have shot down a Chicago area balloon hobbyist groups missing inexpensive, yet well-traveled, craft.

The government of Canada has declared that it will dispatch naval vessels to Haiti in order to gather intelligence pertinent to the situation of escalating gang-related violence in the nation of the Caribbean.

In an, until very recently, almost unheard of event, an American F-22 Raptor shot down an object of unknown origin, making its way slowly across the Great White North. This is the latest in three similar events to take place over North American airspace in the last several days.

In the years following World War II, the cost of war was a major topic of discussion. The United States and its allies had spent billions of dollars on the war effort, and there was a lot of debate about how to pay for it all.

“We’ve seen an alarming increase in the number of unsafe aerial intercepts and confrontations at sea by PLA aircraft and vessels,” U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Secretary Lloyd Austin said. He added that the occurrence made by the Chinese side “should worry us all.”

A Quiet Homecoming The first piece I wrote for SOFREP, way back on March 10th of this year, was about a Canadian Sniper that goes by the nickname of Wali. Wali went to Ukraine to put his considerable skills to use as part of the International Legion fighting against the Russians. Today, Wali is back […]

Learn about the Excalibur GPS-guided artillery round that Canada is sending to Ukraine along with four howitzers to fire them. The Excalibur Round can put 48 pounds of high explosives through the sunroof of your SUV from 40 miles away.

Western governments protest the government of Mali hiring Russian mercenaries under the guise of bringing in the Wagner Group which is accused of operating as a proxy for Moscow and Vladamir Putin.

The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), is an intergovernmental organization founded by Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, Iran, and Venezuela. OPEC is considered to possess majority control of the world’s crude oil production and the most considerable influence on oil pricing. OPEC also sets production targets for each member country in an attempt to […]

A Royal Canadian Navy helicopter went down on Wednesday in the Ionian Sea, Greece, during a NATO exercise. The CH-148 Cyclone helicopter was carrying six servicemembers (four crew and two passengers). Contact with the aircraft was lost approximately 50 nautical miles west of the Greek island of Kefalonia. As of Thursday morning, the search-and-rescue (SAR) […]

Last weekend, a man went on a shooting rampage in Nova Scotia, Canada, killing at least 16 people, including one police officer. This is the worst active shooter incident in Canadian history. The active-shooter incident began in the late hours of Saturday. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) has identified Gabriel Wortman, aged 51, as […]

Frank Buckles lived an amazing and long life. He joined the Army at only 16 years old to fight in World War I, and later as a civilian, working in the Philippines, was captured by the Japanese at the outset of World War II. He survived three hellish years as a POW at Los Banos […]