Tag: National Security

ump’s characterizations of Mexicans that Trump used to kick off his presidential campaign, saying he “cannot agree with such a generalization for Mexicans” being rapists, drug dealers and criminals.

Friday after the vote result was announced, Rice replied: “Bummer.”

The United States’ aircraft carriers have always been an almost untouchable deterrent, steel behemoths capable of projecting the full weight of the U.S. military wherever they deploy. Yet while many militaries could never hope to match the U.S. carrier fleet in size and strength, countries such as China, Iran and Russia have spent recent years adjusting their forces and […]

When it comes to taking down the worst of the bad guys and protecting the homeland, most people probably think of SEAL Team Six killing Bin Laden or the FBI arresting an ISIS sympathizer. While their feats are well-known, there are several other units within the U.S. military, intelligence community and law enforcement that you’ve probably never heard of. […]

Here at SOFREP, we collectively strive to be, and consider ourselves, a largely apolitical organization in that we do not often come down on one or the other side of the usually contentious left-right debate in America. True, we will occasionally weigh in on politically sensitive matters—see here, and here, and here—but, generally, we like […]

This year’s State of the Union address contained 6493 words, and only 855 of those were dedicated to foreign policy and national security.