Morning Brief: Another Hegseth Aide Leaves Pentagon, Gabbard Threatens Criminal Referrals Against Obama Staffers

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.

Evening Brief: Hollywood Driver Slams Into Crowd, Americans Freed From Venezuela

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

Justice: Delayed, Denied or Redacted?

The Justice Department talks a big game about accountability, but at this point, they’d need a GPS and divine intervention just to locate their own spine.

Morning Brief: Israel and Syria Agree to Ceasefire, Epstein Files to be Unsealed

On July 18, the world saw Israel and Syria shake hands after a week of bloodletting, the EU slam Russia with its harshest sanctions yet, and Trump’s DOJ crack open the Epstein vault—three headlines that read like a geopolitical fever dream, but here we are on Saturday morning, July 19, 2025. This is your SOFREP morning brief.

Benjamin Reed: War Tourist

War didn’t greet me with a banner or a cause—it handed me a shovel, a borrowed rifle, and a promise that if I didn’t dig fast enough, I’d meet God before breakfast.

Three Die in Los Angeles Bomb Blast

Three experienced bomb squad deputies lost their lives doing the dangerous work they were trained for—a dark reminder that even in controlled environments, the margin for error in this business is razor-thin.

Fifteen Transferable Military Skills that Land Jobs

You didn’t spend years dodging mortars and herding chaos just to get ghosted by a middle manager named Chad—translate your warfighting into workforce gold and make them pay you what you’re worth.