Guy D. McCardle

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.

Here’s to Demo Dick, a true American legend, whose stories of the evolution from UDT to Navy SEALs not only entertain but inspire, reminding us all to Sleep, Eat And Live it up just like the Naval special operators do.

Todays Bob Lang inked cartoon takes aim at Marine Corps reenlistment bonuses, where fifty-thousand-dollar incentives and “high value” status meet the mud, diesel, and battlefield sarcasm of the motor pool.

From Gaza body returns to a stalled Senate spending push to a scaled back ICE footprint in Minnesota, today’s signal is the same across three fronts, limited cooperation is ending, big plans are hitting resistance, and government actors are shifting tactics under pressure rather than moving on clean wins.

After years of punishing my system with every caffeinated concoction known to man, I finally found something that sharpens the blade without wrecking the handle.

While Omar gets sprayed with mystery liquid at a Minneapolis town hall and keeps talking, Rubio’s telling senators that Venezuela’s transition is going to be a long slog with no clean exits, and Starmer just touched down in Beijing with sixty delegates trying to chase Chinese trade dollars without tripping any security alarms.

SHOT Show 2026 wasn’t about flashy banners or endless aisles—it was about the gear that actually worked, and if you paid attention, you could see the future of shooting right there on the floor.

From a Border Patrol shooting on a dirt road in Arivaca, to a missile strike on a Caribbean fishing boat now headed to U.S. court, to Xi Jinping gutting the very top of the PLA, the common thread is power under stress, weapons in motion, and the human cost that follows when force gets ahead of accountability.

This is part one of a nine-part series of interviews SOFREP conducted with SEAL Team-Six founder Richard “Demo Dick” Marcinko

From snowbound highways and stranded travelers to the looming government brink and a carrier strike group asserting power in the Indian Ocean, the world keeps moving while we scramble to keep up.

A strangely-painted tanker thumbing its nose at warships is not a joke, it is a sanctioned economy daring the world to blink first in the gray zone where absurdity, money, and maritime law collide.

Ryan Pitts didn’t survive COP Keating because he was invincible; he survived because, in the chaos of a fight designed to kill him, he refused to quit.