SOFREP Cartoon: Tactical Malfunction at the Bar

In a world where Russia bellows bravado and breaks treaties, the U.S. answers with silent, deep-sea patience—four to five Ohio-class submarines are lurking in the shadows, each armed with dozens of warheads, holding the still-fragile threads of deterrence tight as New START’s expiration looms next year.

US Pulls Out of Three Forward Operating Bases in Syria

U.S. and coalition forces have withdrawn from three forward operating bases in northeastern Syria—Mission Support Site Green Village, Mission Support Site Euphrates (often called the Conoco gas-field base), and a third smaller facility—sometime in May 2025, according to the latest Department of Defense Inspector General quarterly report. These closures represent a mass exodus from the […]

Why Your Grandparents Once Rendered the Nazi Salute to the American Flag

In a moment that feels ripped from dystopian fiction, American schoolkids in 1940 stood with outstretched arms—Nazi-style—saluting the flag under a Pledge written by a Christian Socialist, in a bizarre collision of patriotism, forgotten history, and unintended symbolism.