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Pete Hegseth isn’t courting chaos—he’s weaponizing it to drag the Pentagon kicking and screaming back to its warfighting roots.

The Pope’s death isn’t just the end of a papacy—it’s the final curtain for a Church so out of touch it’s practically communicating in Morse code from a bygone century.

Staff Sergeant Travis Atkins did more than just wear the uniform—he lived the values behind it, choosing instinctively to shield his men with his own life in a moment that defined true American valor.

Start your Monday with the SOFREP Morning Brief: Key intel on defense and global affairs for April 21, 2025.

Here is the SOFREP Evening Brief for the night of Sunday, April 20th, 2025. President Trump has yet to invoke the Insurrection Act but continues laying the groundwork amid escalating tensions over immigration enforcement, while Florida State University faces backlash for resuming classes just days after a deadly mass shooting, and Pope Francis, still ailing, delivered a powerful Easter message urging peace in Gaza and beyond, condemning antisemitism, and calling on world leaders to invest in compassion over conflict.

After 32 years serving Canada and the RCMP—training countless officers and advocating for ethical policing—I’ve seen firsthand that lawful, licensed firearms owners are not the threat, yet we are continually punished by misguided political agendas while real criminals walk free and violent crime rises.

Katy Perry didn’t just reach the final frontier—she lit up the void with glitter and guts while America’s joyless peanut gallery choked on their own envy.

Elon Musk didn’t just disrupt the aerospace status quo—he torched the old playbook, launched it into orbit, and rewrote the future with Starlink and a reusable rocket.

Happy Easter! Welcome to Sunday, April 20th, 2025. Here’s what’s making news today: Russia shatters its Easter ceasefire with continued strikes in Ukraine, the Pentagon halves its troop presence in Syria, the Naval Academy cancels Ryan Holiday’s speech, and VP JD Vance heads to India for pivotal trade talks.

Good Evening! Here is your SOFREP Evening Brief for Saturday, April 19, 2025. The Trump administration has transformed federal COVID-19 websites into platforms pushing the lab leak theory while erasing vital health guidance, as Putin declares a short Easter ceasefire in Ukraine amid ongoing attacks and skepticism from Zelensky, Israel escalates airstrikes across Gaza killing scores of civilians in humanitarian zones, and Hamas offers to release all hostages if Israel ends the war and meets sweeping demands—marking a week of high-stakes global conflict and domestic political rebranding.

When your balls look like they just escaped from Dresden and your taint feels like it went ten rounds with a flamethrower, you realize some life lessons come not in whispers, but in oozing, radioactive screams.

What stays with me most isn’t just the devastation we sifted through by hand, but the faces of those who showed up every day—bloodied, exhausted, unflinching—determined to do right by the dead.