Book Review: ARISEN Operators 1, Fall of the Third Temple
Yaël Sion does not survive the apocalypse by hoping harder; she survives it the way a cutting tool survives steel, by biting down and refusing to let go.
Israel
Evening Brief: Medal of Honor Pay Boosted as Gaza Ceasefire Frays and Taliban Inherit U.S. War Gear
Medal of Honor recipients just got their pension bumped finally putting real weight behind the nation’s highest award. Meanwhile, the Gaza ceasefire is barely holding as clashes flare around the unmarked Yellow Line, and a final Afghanistan watchdog report says the U.S. left billions of arms and equipment in the hands of the Taliban.
The Bolduc Brief: The Trump Administration’s Peace Plan for Gaza – An Inevitable Collapse
You cannot make peace with a group that rejects it, you cannot stabilize Gaza with foreign troops the region distrusts, and you cannot replace political courage with cash.
USMC Colonel (Ret.) Eric Buer: The Rejection of Peace in Our Time – Why the Latest Gaza Ceasefire Will Likely Fail
Trump’s October Gaza plan feels like another lap in the same exhausted cycle, where Palestinian leaders refuse statehood, dodge disarmament, and turn ceasefires into reloads while civilians foot the bill.
Six Dead at Jerusalem’s Ramot Junction: A Rush-Hour Ambush in a Country on Edge
In the space of a few seconds, a Jerusalem bus stop turned from a commuter choke point into a kill zone, and only the fast trigger pull of a soldier and armed civilians kept the body count from climbing higher.
Hamas Doesn’t Want Peace: Why Gaza Should Never Be a State
Hamas isn’t fighting for freedom—they’re a death cult that turns ceasefires into reload breaks and children into human shields.
The Intelligence Failures Leading up to October 7th, 2023
Israel’s failure to recognize the full extent of Hamas’ capabilities and intentions leading up to October 7th, 2023, shows that even the most advanced intelligence agencies can overlook critical threats when they make dangerous assumptions about their adversaries.
The Unfolding Gaza Horror Story
Having walked the dusty camps of Gaza and the corridors of Israeli power alike, one can conclude that this conflict isn’t about religion—it’s about land, politics, and the human cost of indifference.
Morning Brief: Israel and Syria Agree to Ceasefire, Epstein Files to be Unsealed
On July 18, the world saw Israel and Syria shake hands after a week of bloodletting, the EU slam Russia with its harshest sanctions yet, and Trump’s DOJ crack open the Epstein vault—three headlines that read like a geopolitical fever dream, but here we are on Saturday morning, July 19, 2025. This is your SOFREP morning brief.
The Bolduc Brief: The Incomplete Narrative-The Effect of Bombing Campaigns
Tactical airstrikes may rattle the surface, but without a plan to dismantle Iran’s economic and diplomatic lifelines, we’re just rearranging deck chairs on a sinking ship.
The Bolduc Brief: The Evolving Dynamics of Israeli Security in the Middle East
Israel is no longer whispering its red lines to the region—it’s shouting them from 30,000 feet with precision munitions.
The Bolduc Brief: Israel’s Humanitarian City Plan – A Flawed Approach to Peace
You can’t claim to offer humanitarian relief when the entrance to safety is guarded like a fortress—unless, of course, your idea of peace is a gated community built on someone else’s ruin.
