Trump’s Dramatic Ukraine U-Turn: From “Trade Land” to “Take It All Back”
Trump’s sudden pledge that Ukraine can reclaim all occupied land is less a policy than a gamble—one that only matters if he backs it with steel, not slogans.
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Morning Brief: Russian Arctic Missile Launch, Drone Incursion Over Romania, Qatar Wants Accountability from Israel
From hypersonic launches in the Arctic and drone incursions over NATO skies to Qatar’s fury at an airstrike on its soil and Beijing branding Trump’s tariffs as economic blackmail, the world is staring down a storm of flashpoints that prove great powers are testing every boundary at once. Welcome to Monday, September 15th, 2025. This is your SOFREP Morning Brief.
The Bolduc Brief: The Renaming of the Department of Defense – A Political Theatre and Misguided Priorities
Renaming the Pentagon won’t fix failures—real reform lies in strategy, leadership, and accountability, not political theater over titles.
The Bolduc Brief: Why Ukraine Must Reject Territorial Concessions to Russia
Ceding Ukrainian land to Russia would not only violate Ukraine’s sovereignty and international law, but also reward aggression, embolden further expansionism, and undermine the global order the U.S. and its allies are bound to defend.
Why the Laws of War Can’t Keep Up With AI-Powered Killing Machines
We thought drone warfare would be the future—turns out, it was the present all along, and we just didn’t recognize the buzz of change until it hovered over the tree line, camera rolling.
Women in Combat: The Cost No One Wants to See
She wasn’t a symbol, or a narrative, or a talking point—she was a dying girl in the mud, and I watched her last pixilated breath.
What Marjorie Taylor Greene Gets Wrong About Ukraine
I didn’t fight in Ukraine because it was easy—I fought because it was right, and watching Marjorie Taylor Greene parrot Kremlin lies from the safety of her seat in Congress makes me wonder if she even knows the difference.
Ukraine May Not Win, But It Will Not Lose
Victory isn’t flags on rooftops or borders redrawn—it’s the stubborn act of existing, of speaking your mother tongue in defiance, while the sky falls and the world debates your worth.
America Must Not Repeat the Mistakes of Bush’s Afghan War
The war in Afghanistan wasn’t lost in the dust of Helmand or the peaks of Kunar—it was fumbled in the Oval Office by a president who mistook nation-building for strategy and arrogance for resolve.
Drones are Changing the Face of War
Drones aren’t the future of warfare—they’re the present, and anyone not paying attention is already a step behind.
Meanwhile, in Ukraine: Musings From Day 1,213 of the War
While the world’s eyes are fixed on the Middle East, Ukraine is slugging it out in a no-holds-barred brawl with Russia, trading drones, artillery, and defiance in a fight that’s shaping the future far beyond its borders.
Are We About to Join the Fight in Iran? What You Need to Know
You don’t surge tankers, raise force protection levels, and send the Marines east unless somebody, somewhere, just greenlit the next chapter.
