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From a million faithful in Rome to a drone-blasted oil depot in Sochi, with hostage horror in Gaza and a deadly blaze in the West Bank, this weekend reminded us that faith, fire, and fury are colliding across every front line. Welcome to your Sunday evening brief for August 3rd, 2025.
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We’re one late-night mushroom cloud away from realizing the only fallout shelter most Americans have is their comments section.
When generals trade their moral compass for career preservation, the troops end up navigating the battlefield blind.
That M60 didn’t shoot — it roared, like it had a vendetta against the atmosphere and wanted everyone within three zip codes to know it.
From Beijing locking down passports and punishing foreign ties, to Moscow brushing off Trump’s submarine flex, India thumbing its nose at U.S. oil sanctions, and Ukrainians longing for home but waiting for peace, the global chessboard is lit up—and nobody’s playing by the old rules anymore. Welcome to Sunday Morning, August 3rd, 2025. This is your SOFREP Brief.
Real leaders aren’t forged in echo chambers—they’re the ones who choose principle over promotion, even when the system dares them not to.
The VA isn’t treating veterans — it’s sedating them into silence, one cocktail of mind-frying meds at a time.
From radioactive rhino horns in South Africa to starving children in Gaza, a deadly midair collision over D.C., and a fugitive gunman in Montana, this week’s headlines remind us that whether it’s wildlife, warzones, airspace, or small-town bars—when systems fail, lives hang in the balance. Welcome to your Saturday morning brief. It’s August 2nd, 2025.
Catch up on Friday night’s top global and defense headlines, August 1, 2025. US envoy visits Gaza aid site, Cambodia demands troop return, and more.
Joe Kent steps into the NCTC not as a bureaucrat, but as a combat-tested operator bringing hard edges, deep scars, and a no-nonsense mission mindset to the nation’s counterterror fight.
Against the backdrop of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, while international headlines were captivated by the broader war narrative, a small team of Green Berets was tasked with a mission critical to the success of the more extensive campaign.