Author: Guy D. McCardle

In the shadowy waltz of Cold War espionage, the CIA’s heart attack gun wasn’t just a weapon—it was the grim poetry of paranoia rendered in steel and poison.

The Pentagon tossed Anduril a $99.6 million grenade with the pin already pulled—deliver an AI-powered command system in under a year, or become another cautionary tale buried in the defense tech graveyard.

Sudanese refugees return home, Russia ramps up drone strikes, and Gaza tensions rise. Here’s your SOFREP Evening Brief for July 22, 2025.

Israeli troops push into central Gaza, Russia strikes Kyiv, and Syria begins evacuations as global tensions rise this Monday evening.

Annapolis is trading polished tradition for combat grit as a decorated Marine aviator takes the helm, marking a historic first and a sharp turn toward warfighting focus.

William Carney didn’t just carry the flag at Fort Wagner—he hauled the soul of a nation on his back through a storm of lead, and never let it fall.

Aid-line carnage in Gaza, Syria’s shaky truce, and a cartel kingpin extradited. Here’s your SOFREP Morning Brief for Monday, July 21, 2025.

As Israeli troops reportedly gunned down starving civilians in a Gaza breadline, ICE agents fought to keep their faces hidden from the American public, and Ukrainian drones forced Moscow to shut its skies ten times in a day, the message was painfully clear: in a world ruled by power plays and paranoia, it’s always the innocent who get trampled first. And that’s our world on Sunday, July 20, 2025. This is your evening brief.

While Trump took a bullet and a patriot died, a not so intrepid reporter mistook side-eye from the bleachers for incoming fire and called it PTSD.

About as sexy as a cardboard box and built for the mud, Taiwan’s micro-drones aren’t headline grabbers—they’re battlefield bloodhounds sniffing out trouble before it starts.

As Zelensky calls for peace talks while Russian missiles keep flying, Tulsi Gabbard lobs criminal referrals at Obama-era spooks, and Pete Hegseth’s inner circle unravels faster than a cheap knockoff poncho in a monsoon—reminding us that in D.C., chaos isn’t a bug, it’s the whole damn system. Welcome to Sunday Morning, July 20th, 2025. This is your SOFREP AM Brief.

From Hollywood mayhem to high-stakes swaps and Congo ceasefires, the world’s burning at both ends—and NATO’s new boss says if we don’t start cranking out bullets faster than the bad guys, we might be the next ones getting smoked. It’s Saturday, July 19th, 2025. Here’s your SOFREP Evening Brief