Author: Guy D. McCardle

When the missiles came and the sky turned hostile, it wasn’t doctrine or diplomacy that held the line—it was a handful of twenty something Americans with steady hands and nerves of steel.

West Bank violence flares, Trump defends Iran strike, and more. Welcome to Thursday, June 26, 2025. This is your SOFREP Morning Brief.

Oil drops despite Iran strike, Gaza toll climbs, and Congress moves to ban Chinese AI. Here’s tonight’s brief for June 25, 2025.

Brandon Webb’s life reads like a classified op with footnotes in blood and saltwater—equal parts sniper, author, surf rat, and entrepreneurial insurgent.

Somewhere between Cold War nostalgia and modern drone warfare, an aging Iranian F-5E met its fiery end on a Dezful runway—proof that in the Middle East, even museum pieces still get shot at.

When the mission calls for shutting down a nuclear nightmare before it starts, the Army’s Nuclear Disablement Teams are the specialized warfighters slipping in through the back door with brains, guts, guns, and a Geiger counter.

Trump’s big, brash ceasefire rolled off the runway like a flaming shopping cart—loud, chaotic, and destined to explode before anyone could say “mission accomplished.”

Iran just lit the fuse in a powder keg it doesn’t have the hands to hold, and if one American dies, the response won’t be symbolic—it’ll be biblical.

As U.S. bunker-busters hammer Iran’s nuclear sites and Tehran threatens to choke off the Strait of Hormuz, a deadly suicide bombing at a Damascus church shows just how fast the fuse is burning across the Middle East. Welcome to Sunday, June 22nd, 2025. This is SOFREP’s Evening Brief.

We did more than send a message—we carved it into the bedrock with a 30,000-pound pen named MOP and left Tehran to read it in the dark.

After the U.S. dropped bunker busters on Iran’s nuclear sites, Tehran fired off missile barrages at Israel, kicking off a brutal exchange that’s drawn in Washington, rattled the region, and made clear this fight is only getting hotter. Welcome to Sunday, June 22, 2025. This is your SOFREP Morning Brief.

As Khamenei retreats to a bunker, Israel picks off his generals one by one, Trump lands a Nobel nod from Pakistan for stopping a nuclear standoff, and U.S. B-2s loaded with bunker busters are quietly headed for Guam—because nothing says peace quite like preparing for war. Welcome to your Saturday Evening Brief for June 21, 2025.