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Robin Olds roared into combat with a handlebar mustache, a middle finger to bureaucracy, and a brain wired for turning aerial warfare into an art form.

The global board’s flipped, and while the diplomats fumble for pieces, the strongmen are already playing a new game with live ammo.

While Kyiv burned under a record-breaking Russian drone assault and Hamas eyed a ceasefire deal with fingers crossed behind their back, President Trump saluted B-2 pilots at the White House—just not by name, because in 2025, even heroes have to hide. Welcome to Saturday, July 5th, 2025. This is your SOFREP Morning Brief.

Hamas weighs US-brokered ceasefire deal, Russia strikes Kyiv hard, and Congress passes major cuts. Here’s your July 4th Evening Brief.

In every platoon, there’s always that one guy who manages to be a human IED—volatile, unreliable, and liable to blow up your mission and your morale in a single bad moment.

In 2001, a pint-sized German diesel sub snuck past an entire carrier strike group managing to get within ramming distance of the mighty USS Enterprise, like a ghost in broad daylight. She fired a mock torpedo, then surfaced to wave hello with green flares—just to let everyone know they’d been “sunk.”.

This Independence Day, as we fire up the grills and look up to the skies ablaze with fireworks, let us also light the torch of accountability in our own hearts—because freedom, as our forefathers knew, isn’t a gift handed down, it’s a responsibility earned every day.

Border militarization expands, Russia ramps up chemical warfare, and more. Welcome to Friday, July 4th, 2025. This is SOFREP’s Morning Brief.

Fireworks blast in California, Gaza aid scandal, Russia backs Taliban—Thursday evening’s headlines span chaos from Esparto to Kabul.

Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” throws a fat wad of cash at the Pentagon like a drunken high roller in Vegas, while quietly gutting social programs and daring the debt ceiling to blink first.

Both the U.S. Army Rangers and Green Berets are elite components of the military’s special operations forces, each with unique operational roles, rigorous training programs, and distinct missions that aspiring members should consider carefully when choosing a path.

What started as a night of beats and bottle service ended in blood and ballistic trauma, another savage entry in Chicago’s grim summer playlist.