Tim Kennedy’s Apology and the Cost of Imperfect Valor
The mob may be screaming for blood, but last I checked, we still valued guts, service, and the kind of flawed honesty that beats silence seven days a week.
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The mob may be screaming for blood, but last I checked, we still valued guts, service, and the kind of flawed honesty that beats silence seven days a week.
You can’t claim to offer humanitarian relief when the entrance to safety is guarded like a fortress—unless, of course, your idea of peace is a gated community built on someone else’s ruin.
The M24 didn’t need a selector switch or a red dot—it needed a calm breath, a steady hand, and the will to end a fight before it ever began.
America’s not broken—it’s running 2025 problems on 1776 software, and the system crash was long overdue.
As Gaza’s markets burn under airstrikes, Aussie troops drill for war with China, and Putin quietly tries to strip Iran of its nuclear swagger, the world feels less like a chessboard—and more like a powder keg waiting for a spark. Welcome to your Sunday Brief for July 13, 2025.
As U.S. troops recover flood victims in Texas, Russia cozies up to North Korea with nuclear winks, and the PKK drops its guns after 40 years, one thing’s clear—conflict’s shifting, but the uniforms never really leave the picture. Welcome to SOFREP’s Evening Brief for Saturday, July 12, 2025.
Pete Hegseth just kicked the Pentagon’s red tape into a shallow grave and basically told America’s warfighters: “Get drones, get lethal, and get moving.”
In Putin’s Russia, getting fired means exactly that—usually with a 9mm exit interview and a state-issued shovel for the cleanup crew.
While the West debates red lines and sends shipments like it’s parcel post, Ukraine’s fighting Putin’s imperial ambitions with grit, duct tape, and whatever scraps we trickle in from the ‘maybe pile’.
If the Trump administration truly wants peace, it must stop playing diplomat and start acting like an ally—because in this neighborhood, hesitation is an invitation to chaos.
Russian drones slam into maternity wards in Ukraine, settlers beat a young American to death in the West Bank, and the Houthis sink ships on camera—war isn’t confined to battlefields anymore, it’s crashing through front doors and cargo holds alike. Welcome to SOFREP’s Morning Brief for Saturday, July 12, 2025.
Aid deaths in Gaza, Sudan fighting escalates, Ukraine strikes Russia, and US warns China—here’s your July 11 SOFREP Evening Brief.