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  SOFREP Video Interview with SEAL Team Six Founder Dick Marcinko – Episode 3: Tet, 1968

  Demo Dick Marcinko talks about being caught off guard near the Cambodian border during the Tet Offensive of 1968.

  Video / by Guy D. McCardle
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  Surviving Invisible Wounds: It’s OK to Talk About Mental Health Issues in the Military

  Mental health issues in the military should be openly addressed. We’ve talked to some experts to open up these discussions.

  Life / by SOFREP News Team
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  Missy Was My Emotional Support Animal Before I Knew What That Meant

  A combat veteran reflects on how a rescued cat became his emotional support animal long before he understood how much he needed one.

  Veteran Culture / by Galen Fries
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  “All In”: A Portrait of a Soldier‑Strategist, Not Just a General

  More than a book review, this is a portrait of David Petraeus as a great but imperfect man whose service and ideas shaped modern American warfare.

  Book Review / by Galen Fries
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  Morning Brief: MS‑13 Killer, Israel Crime, SDF Ceasefire, Army Recruiting Rebounds

  MS‑13 killer nabbed in Virginia as new governor limits ICE cooperation, mass protests in Tel Aviv over Arab crime, SDF–Damascus ceasefire already under fire in Syria, and the Army is back on track with up recruiting, retention, and higher standards.

  News / by Galen Fries
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  Evening Brief: Gaza, Hormuz, Nigeria, and Minnesota: Flashpoints and the Fog of Current Global Conflict

  Gaza sees heavy Israeli fire around Khan Younis and a Rafah crossing reopening, Iran ups the ante in the Strait of Hormuz as the Abraham Lincoln arrives, ISWAP overruns a Nigerian base in Borno, and a federal judge lets ICE’s “Operation Metro Surge” continue in Minnesota despite state opposition.

  News / by Galen Fries
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  Sixty Grams of Clean Power: Why Essential Provisions Delivers the Protein Your Body Demands

  Protein is everywhere now because the body finally got a vote, and it turns out calories without function do not cut it when performance, recovery, and resilience are on the line.

  Expert Analysis / by Guy D. McCardle
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  Former Navy SEAL on Why Americans on Both Sides Should Call Out the Domestic Gestapo, AKA ICE.

  When ICE agents execute incapacitated detainees on camera while wannabe tough guys cheer from their lifted F-150s with Punisher skull decals , we’ve crossed from law enforcement into discount-bin tyranny—and if you won’t call that out, you’re not a patriot, you’re just another bootlicker.

  Expert Analysis / by Brandon Webb
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  The Great Chinese Famine and the Strategic Cost of Obedience Over Truth

  The Great Chinese Famine reveals how an authoritarian state, driven by ideology and falsified data, inflicted more damage on its own people than many wars ever could.

  History / by Galen Fries
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  Declassified: Turning Cargo Planes into Gunships

  A declassified look at how U.S. airmen turned ordinary cargo aircraft into deadly gunships, reshaping modern airpower through wartime improvisation.

  Military / by Galen Fries
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  Morning Brief: Saudi Air Defenses, LA Anti‑ICE Protests, Nigeria Drone Fight, Syria SDF Claim, MS‑13 Killer Freed

  Saudi air defenses can’t realistically stop massed Iranian missile salvos, anti‑ICE protests in LA are escalating into physical attacks, Nigeria is urgently countering terrorist drones, Damascus blames the SDF for a major FPV drone strike near Kobani, and a Nevada federal judge just ordered the release of a convicted MS‑13 murderer from ICE custody, reigniting the immigration enforcement‑due process clash.

  News / by Galen Fries
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  Evening Brief: Mangione Won’t Face Death Penalty, Justice Department Launches Probe in Pretti Killing, ISIS Attacks in Niger

  From a federal judge boxing out the death penalty on procedural grounds in the Mangione case, to the Justice Department opening a civil rights probe into the Pretti shooting, to ISIS fighters on motorcycles hitting Niger’s main airport while the junta points fingers at Paris, this week’s throughline is the same: institutions under pressure, legal frameworks being stress-tested, and outcomes that satisfy nobody’s sense of clean resolution.

  World / by Guy D. McCardle