Bolduc Brief: The Arctic Strategy: The Need for a Nuclear Icebreaker Fleet

Bolduc Brief: The Arctic Strategy: The Need for a Nuclear Icebreaker Fleet

If the Trump administration is serious about protecting U.S. interests in the Arctic, it should stop relying on rhetoric about Greenland and instead invest in a nuclear icebreaker fleet that provides real access, credible presence, and strategic leadership in a rapidly opening region.

Book Review: Five Years to Freedom by Colonel James N. Rowe

Book Review: Five Years to Freedom by Colonel James N. Rowe

Five Years to Freedom is a compact, must-read POW memoir that shows how Nick Rowe endured five years of Viet Cong captivity through discipline and mental control, influenced the modern SERE program, and belongs alongside Frankl and Solzhenitsyn as a study of inner freedom under coercion.

Morning Brief: Syria Airstrike, ICE Debate, Terror Killings, NATO Tensions

Morning Brief: Syria Airstrike, ICE Debate, Terror Killings, NATO Tensions

U.S. forces killed an Al-Qaeda-linked leader tied to the Palmyra ambush as counter-ISIS strikes continue, Democrats are pushing back on abolish-ICE rhetoric, ISIS-linked militants in Nigeria executed captives over ransom, and Trump’s Greenland push is driving NATO resistance and tariff threats.

American Mercenaries Linked to UAE Assassination Program in Yemen

American Mercenaries Linked to UAE Assassination Program in Yemen

The UAE’s reported use of former U.S. special operations contractors to run a targeted assassination campaign in southern Yemen shows how a partner’s “counterterror” fight can slide into deniable contract killing, with shaky oversight and almost no accountability.

Colonel James ‘Nick’ Rowe Assassinated in 1989

Colonel James ‘Nick’ Rowe Assassinated in 1989

April 21, 1989 the US Army Special Forces lost a legend in its ranks. Communist guerrillas assassinated COL. Nick Rowe while on his way to work as a military advisor to the Philippine Army. Rowe had escaped a Viet Cong prisoner of war camp on New Year’s Eve 1968 while being taken to his execution. […]

Al Mar, Nick Rowe, and the Knives Built for SERE

Al Mar, Nick Rowe, and the Knives Built for SERE

A junior soldier’s first Al Mar purchase becomes the entry point into how Al Mar’s Special Forces ties, friendship with Nick Rowe, and SERE-driven design priorities shaped some of the most respected knives in the tactical world.