Donald Bolduc

Leadership is not about titles or rank, but about listening, learning, and leading with strength, humility, and respect so your people can thrive.

A strong and principled military depends on service members who possess the discipline to follow lawful orders and the moral courage to challenge those that violate the values they are sworn to defend.

The so-called Trump peace plan is not a roadmap to stability but an insult to Ukrainians and Europeans alike, a political stunt that hands Putin a strategic win while sidelining real diplomacy in favor of photo-op victory laps.

As military professionals, we have a duty to question and, when necessary, refuse orders that violate law, morality, or basic safety, because our oath is to the Constitution and the principles it defends, not to blind obedience.

If we want to heal a fractured nation, we must start by facing the man in the mirror and accepting the hard truth that the blame we’re so quick to cast on others often belongs to us.

When accountability breaks down, the integrity of our institutions erodes, our adversaries gain opportunity, and the security of the nation itself is placed at risk.

We are posturing for a fight in Venezuela without a coherent strategy, bleeding scarce combat power and credibility in pursuit of a mission that serves politics more than the security of the American people.

At a moment when Americans are once again tempted to choose sides over country, we must decide whether we want a president in the mold of Lincoln, who labored to heal the Union, or a leader who treats the office as a vehicle for grievance and personal gain.

In a world fraying with division and hardship, our real strength is the quiet, unseen gold forged in daily struggle, service to others, and the deep roots of our values that no frost can reach.

After twenty so called successes against drug boats, my experience tells me we are spending billions to swat at speedboats while the cartels calmly rebuild the same networks we refuse to confront at the source.

The shutdown may be over, but the same entrenched division, weak leadership, and political gamesmanship that brought us to the brink are still eroding our national security from the inside out.

As a military commander who swore to provide for those under my charge, I find it unforgivable that elected leaders would let a shutdown — and the halting of SNAP benefits — become a political cudgel, abandoning the most vulnerable when duty demanded action.