Cold War

Thanks to their risky choice of disobeying orders some of these soldiers became heroes. They save lives, cities, or the entire world.

Sometimes the only gear needed is a wink, a can-do attitude… and some next-level diving gear. Prepare for a tale of underwater politics, espionage, and treachery.

A sunken Soviet submarine packed with nukes. A window for America to gain the upper hand in the Cold War. A CIA cover story worth three billion dollars. I give you Project Azorian, or how the U.S. tried to steal a Soviet sub. It’s the late 1960s. Nuclear submarines are a key cog in a […]

The Cold War never ended, it just went underground. Now, the old rules are gone and Russia is spying on — and hacking — the United States.

SERE was a “No-Fail” school. If for some reason you don’t make it through they revoke your security clearance. If that happened, I’d be done.

The SERE School training area was in a classified area near the Naval Air Station; its dread status was the stuff of fact, myth, and legend.

The U2 spy plane has outperformed nearly every other form of reconnaissance since its launch in the 1950s — now that’s American ingenuity.

This Week on SOFREP: A military-wide search for extremism, China’s Cold War games, and insights into new findings about COVID-19 testing.

China’s antics in the South China Sea are not new, but a form of Soviet Cold War tactics aimed at misdirection and the spread of propaganda.

A top secret military mission. A famous civilian oceanographer. The story of how the Titanic was found that was never told.

During the Cold War, the U.S. and Soviet Union developed newer, even more powerful thermonuclear weapons. One such attempt was Project Pluto.

DARPA’s program uses sensors to track the behavior of sea life, whereby assessing whether it is natural or caused by an enemy submarine.