Dick Cheney is Gone, but I Remember Who Sent Us to War
Dick Cheney didn’t just steer America into war, he helped turn war into a business, and soldiers like me and my friends paid the bill in blood while he and his circle counted the profits.
Op-Ed
When an MIT Professor Is Murdered: The Quiet Vulnerabilities of American Scientific Power
The killing of an MIT professor is not just a crime story, but a reminder that America’s scientific power lives in real people, real places, and is more vulnerable than we like to admit.
What the Left Will Never Understand About Azov
You do not get to interview your defenders for ideological purity when the rockets are already inbound, you take the ones who hold the line and you judge them by what they do under fire, not by what comfortable people say about them afterward.
Democracy, Terror, and the Lines We Refuse to Draw
Liberal democracies did not fail because they defended themselves after 9/11, but because they spent the next two decades pretending that ideology, borders, and integration no longer mattered in a world where all three still kill people.
The Bolduc Brief: Senate Reasserts Oversight – A Crucial Step Toward Military Accountability
The Senate’s vote is Congress doing its job the way the Constitution intended, putting sunlight on military force and drawing a hard line against any president who thinks war powers come with no questions asked.
The Bolduc Brief: The Struggle of Leadership – Reflections on Dürer’s “Knight, Death, and the Devil”
Dürer’s knight rides on as a reminder that leadership is measured less by the enemies at your back than by whether you keep your principles intact when politics, temptation, and fear start whispering in your ear.
War Tourist Dispatches #1: Crossing the Thai-Cambodian Border
I am not crossing into Cambodia because I want to, but because borders now behave like quiet intelligence services, and once you have been attached to a war, even a routine visa run starts feeling like you are moving through someone else’s threat matrix.
The Rise of Nick Fuentes: Why His Extremism Matters Far Beyond America
Fuentes sells antisemitism and Kremlin-friendly authoritarian nostalgia the way the internet sells everything else, as meme-flavored entertainment stripped of consequence, and Europe cannot afford to treat that kind of cultural poison as harmless content.
The Bolduc Brief: Navigating the Challenges of Award Recognition in Military Organizations
What should feel like a straightforward moment of recognition too often turns into a slow, bureaucratic grind where lost awards, subjective gatekeeping, and poor communication leave deserving service members feeling dismissed instead of honored.
The Bolduc Brief: The Legality and Necessity of Vessel Seizure in Counterterrorism Efforts
The tanker seizure off Venezuela, executed under a lawful warrant and powered by tight interagency teamwork from the Coast Guard, FBI, Homeland Security Investigations, and the Department of Defense, shows how the United States can hit terrorist-linked maritime networks where they move money and materiel while staying inside the lines of due process.
The Bolduc Brief: Analyzing the U.S. National Security Strategy Under the Trump Administration
Trump’s National Security Strategy isn’t isolationism, it’s a hard pivot toward a narrower, transactional worldview where borders and identity politics drive the threat picture, “Western civilization” becomes a tribal banner, and allies are left wondering if they’re partners or just the next line item to be renegotiated.
What’s Wrong with America — Could it be the MAGA Cult?
America is not collapsing from outside pressure but hollowing itself out from within, trading shared civic responsibility for grievance, celebrity worship, and the comforting lies of a cult that mistakes cruelty for strength and ignorance for conviction.
