When defense leaders trade focus on readiness, recruitment, and force health for ideological fights with universities, they risk weakening the very military strength and unity they are sworn to protect.
Brigadier General (Ret.) Donald C. Bolduc, U.S. Army Special Forces veteran and former commander of U.S. Army Special Operations Command. (U.S. Army)
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Two guys sit three feet apart reading verified stories and walk away believing opposite truths, because the most loyal yes-man either of them ever hired fits in a pocket and runs on Wi-Fi.
Three men sit shoulder to shoulder at the same bar, drinking the same beer, and scrolling three different realities. Image by the author.
President Donald Trump weighs military options against Iran as renewed scrutiny tied to Jeffrey Epstein’s network expands across U.S. and U.K. politics, intersecting with escalating tensions in the Middle East and ongoing transatlantic investigations.
Combination image of U.S. President Donald Trump and Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, created March 9, 2025. Credit: Alex Wong/AFP via France 24.
Recruiting is rebounding, but with warships on alert overseas and Guard units cycling through nonstop domestic missions, the force is rebuilding under pressure, not in peace.
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Twelve men, no script, and a mission set that swings from training guerrillas in the mountains to calming down armed allies in a cramped room at midnight—this is the quiet, decentralized grind where Special Forces actually earns its keep.
As African nationalism surged and London hardened its demands, Southern Rhodesia found itself trapped between a promise of gradual reform and the gathering certainty that compromise was slipping beyond reach.
Promotion reform is overdue and necessary, but when political agendas and personal loyalties creep into the selection of generals and admirals, the result is not accountability but a corrosion of trust, merit, and the nonpartisan leadership the force depends on to fight and win.
U.S. naval forces mass near Iran as tensions rise, while fighting intensifies in Tigray and Myanmar and new allegations shake Ukraine’s foreign legion.
As Germany quietly explores a European nuclear backstop, China extends its reach through dual-use space infrastructure in Africa, and unidentified drones keep probing American bases at home, the shape of modern deterrence is shifting everywhere at once.
In a quiet room in Chantilly this April, CIA tech minds and SOCOM operators will start sketching the tools that will let small teams see more, move lighter, and think faster than the enemies waiting for them.
On a good team, birthdays are background noise, but the moment someone needs the mission to orbit their need for recognition, you’ve learned exactly where their loyalty will bend when the stakes get real.
As Moscow reels from yet another high-level hit, the shadow war between Russian and Ukrainian intelligence services is spilling far beyond the battlefield and into a ruthless campaign of targeted killings that risks becoming a self-sustaining spiral of retaliation.
When promotions hinge on politics instead of performance, we risk eroding the trust, readiness, and integrity that our force depends on to win and to lead.
European missile stocks for Ukraine run dry as winter strain intensifies; the U.S. weighs new Taiwan arms sales while Iran temporarily closes the Strait of Hormuz during renewed nuclear talks.
Violence at a hometown rink, carrier decks warming in the Gulf, and U.S. missiles moving onto Philippine islands all point to the same reality, the line between domestic shock and global tension is thinner than most people think.
Pete Hegseth’s push to remove a senior Army spokesman has exposed a quiet power struggle inside the Pentagon, where promotions, past loyalties, and politics are colliding in ways the Army is not eager to explain.
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