SOFREP Daily Brief – 12-19-2015

Human trafficking in America On a cool, quiet Thursday night, crimes of all types unfurl on South Figueroa Street. This is one of the main tracks for prostitution in Los Angeles, a strip where sex can be purchased from teenage girls on almost any given corner, where pimps, some of them gang affiliated, carefully guard […]

SOFREP Daily Brief – 12-18-2015

Did a US Special Forces Team Just Deploy to Al-Watiya, Libya in a SOCOM Owned Airplane? Cyber Warfare U.S. intelligence agencies recently identified a Russian cybersecurity firm, which has expertise in testing the network vulnerabilities of the electrical grid, financial markets and other critical infrastructure, as having close ties to Moscow’s Federal Security Service, the […]

SOFREP Daily Brief – 12-16-2015

The Life of Russian Troops in Syria RT Arabic YouTube Channel A Historical Retrospective on the Phoenix Program The Phoenix program is arguably the most misunderstood and controversial program undertaken by the governments of the United States and South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. It was, quite simply, a set of programs that sought to […]

SOFREP Daily Brief – 12-15-2015

The National Clandestine Service is growing ASPEN, Colo. — A military human intelligence organization that has faced headwinds in recent years is still growing in size, the Pentagon’s former intelligence chief said on Thursday. Michael Vickers, until recently the undersecretary of defense for intelligence, said that the Defense Clandestine Service is still expanding and will […]

SOFREP Daily Brief – 12-14-2015

China remains the biggest threat to the United States Singapore said it would allow the US to deploy a spy plane out of its territory to monitor Chinese activities in the South China sea. The move, which angered the Chinese, comes at a time of heightened tensions in the area over China’s building of artificial islands […]

SOFREP Daily Brief – 12-10-2015

Jack Murphy talks Benghazi on Fox Business Watch the latest video at video.foxbusiness.com Army Special Operations veteran Jack Murphy on the latest revelations on the Benghazi attack. – FOX Business Why ISIS will not be defeated In late August 2006, John Mearsheimer and Steve Walt published a book called ‘The Israel Lobby and US Foreign […]

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Marine Corps being pressured to lower standards for women Two years ago, Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, the nation’s top military officer, laid down an edict on the Obama administration’s plan to open direct land combat jobs to women: If women cannot meet a standard, senior commanders better have a good reason why it should […]

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Moscow bus station bombing When ISIS Sinai down a Russian passenger jet over in Egypt early last month it became abundantly clear that Russian civilians are now squarely in Islamic State’s crosshairs following Moscow’s intervention in Syria and aggressive aerial campaign to wipe out anti-Assad elements operating in the country. Subsequent ISIS videos contained a […]

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German Intelligence Service says Saudi Arabia is destabilizing the Middle East Saudi Arabia is at risk of becoming a major destabilising influence in the Arab world, German intelligence has warned. Internal power struggles and the desire to emerge as the leading Arab power threaten to make the key Western ally a source of instability, according […]

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Details emerge about San Bernadino shooting suspects The FBI and police are searching the Redlands townhome tied to San Bernardino shooting suspect Syed Rizwan Farook. Late Wednesday night, police used a battering ram to enter the home and sent a robot in to sweep for possible explosives. Police have identified Farook, a 28-year-old American citizen […]

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Chinese reveal stealth jet breakthrough, designed with stolen American technology… A group of scientists from China may have created a stealth material that could make future fighter jets very difficult to detect by some of today’s most cutting-edge anti-stealth radar. The researchers developed a new material they say can defeat microwave radar at ultrahigh frequencies, […]

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China eyes taking over strategic airbase in the Atlantic Over Thanksgiving, I briefly visited the Azores, an archipelago in the middle of the North Atlantic, home to Lajes Field, a Portuguese Air Force Base that’s also home to the US Air Force’s 65th Air Base Wing. The US has had almost a century of interaction […]