Skip to content
DUFFEL BLOG

Free military brief. No CAC required.

For more than a decade, we've deployed pitch perfect satire to service members around the world.

Join thousands of troops, veterans, and defense insiders who read Duffel Blog before breakfast.

“A must-read for national security nerds.”

—The Daily Beast
Subscribe form

Free. No spam. Unsubscribe anytime.

14years publishing
4,200+dispatches filed
17,000+readers briefed

The Duffel Brief · the free edition, Monday, Wednesday and Friday

Vol. 15 · No. 133 · Sunday, 8 November 2026

Pete Hegseth picks wrong week to stop drinking

Pentagon staffing delays leave secretary sober for worst 48 hours of his career

Pentagon confident U.S. will be ready for 2027 war with China by 2035

Hegseth wears Eisenhower's globe as Halloween costume

Three editions a week, paid for by our subscribers

Vol. 15 · No. 133

Worldwide edition

Reader supported

Delivered 3× weekly

America's most trusted military news source

Duffel Blog

Established 2012 · Deployed worldwide

Vol. 15 · No. 133 · Deployed worldwide

Sunday

8 November 2026

1339 Zulu

Next edition Monday

← Front page
· Page 2

Inexplicable: Marine shaved every day but still violated geneva convention

Filed · 1552

BAHRAIN — In an attack that has his entire chain of command scratching its heads, Marine Sgt. Cliff Smith committed a heinous war crime despite the fact that he shaved everyday.

“I just don’t get it,” said his battalion Sgt. Maj. Mike Hofstra. “Sgt. Smith always has the cleanest shave and most finely pressed uniforms, yet he slaughtered half a dozen innocent civilians as if those things don’t even matter when determining someone’s performance in combat. Perhaps this could have been prevented if we had just done a few more uniform inspections.”

Smith’s fellow Marines noted that he always completed his annual training on time and got a fresh high-and-tight haircut every Monday morning. However, they say his general hostility towards other cultures and tendency to brutally torture and kill small animals did raise some red flags.

Also on this page

Your Cart

Your cart is empty

Browse the shop to find something you like.

Continue Shopping →
Subtotal

Add more for free shipping.

✓ You qualify for free shipping!