Morning Brief: Vance Addresses Marines For Corps Birthday, US Repatriates Alleged Drug Traffickers, Durand Line Goes Quiet

From Red Beach where Marine Vice President JD Vance saluted a roaring 250th birthday, to Caribbean waters where a Navy strike sank a narco sub and sent its survivors home into a legal gray sea, to the Durand Line where guns fell quiet under Qatari and Turkish mediation, the week showed American power flexing while policy and peace try to keep pace. Welcome to Sunday, October 19, 2025. This is your SOFREP Morning Brief.

A Marine Raider Comes to Grip With The Hypocrisy of MARSOC leadership

“May the Lord judge between you and me… but my hand shall not be against you. As the ancient proverb says “out of the wicked comes forth wickedness”; but my hand shall not be against you.” — 1 Samuel 24:12 & 13 Hello. My name is Aaron. I am a husband to a wife I […]