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Once again a deranged man turned a quiet Sunday service into the killing fields.

From where I sit, you don’t win trust by lecturing warfighters; until Pete Hegseth owns his gaps, listens hard, and speaks candidly with the President and the flag officers, he’ll keep driving the people he must persuade into polite, passive resistance.

Standing on Little Round Top’s granite spine for the fifth time, I can still trace where Chamberlain’s exhausted 20th Maine pivoted on cold steel and, against repeated assaults, shattered the Alabama charge and saved the Union flank.

Trump pushes Gaza ceasefire, Russia pounds Kyiv, Moldova backs EU path. Your SOFREP intel drop for Monday, September 29, 2025.

On a single volatile Sunday, Moldova votes under disinformation crossfire with fraud claims ricocheting across Telegram, New York’s mayoral race snaps into a Mamdani–Cuomo knife fight after Eric Adams bows out, and a Michigan LDS congregation endures gunfire and flames in its sanctuary. It’s Sunday Evening, September 28th, 2025. This is your SOFREP Evening Brief.

Headphones in, lone-wolf mode on—no handshakes, no hype squad—just iron, intent, and the discipline to show up when everyone else ghosts.

A day after the Mogadishu firefight, Delta’s A Squadron lifted in to bolster a bloodied Task Force Ranger—17 Americans killed, 106 wounded, and Gary Gordon and Randall Shughart earning the Medal of Honor.

A gunman came by water and left by water—a drive-by with a propeller that turned Southport’s postcard bar into a battlefield in the time it takes a guitar riff to fade away.

Gathering 800 flag officers isn’t leadership—it’s pageantry that burns money, time, and focus we can’t afford to waste.

From Kyiv’s 12-hour drone-missile hammering to Trump’s threat to put troops on Portland streets and Lavrov’s UN vow of a “decisive response” after Zapad-2025, the board looks like a powder magazine where one spark could light three fuses at once. It’s Sunday, September 28th, 2025. Welcome to your SOFREP Morning Brief.

As Trump pushes a Gaza ceasefire-for-hostages deal with an Arab-backed stabilization force, Sahel juntas walk out on the ICC in the name of “sovereignty,” and Kim races to crack ICBM re-entry—hard power is edging out referees. It’s Saturday, September 27th, 2025. This is your evening brief.

At Bagram, the Taliban lazily read the paper while the almighty hand of Trump reaches for the lease—and the runway remembers how to roar.