Donald Bolduc

Washington's belief that sanctions can bend Iran to its will ignores the hard reality that China, Russia, and India have interests of their own and no obligation to enforce American hubris.

Threatening Oman risks driving a trusted Gulf partner toward America's rivals while jeopardizing vital military access and one of Washington's most valuable diplomatic backchannels to Iran.

When blind loyalty replaces competence, experience, and integrity, ideological extremism paralyzes government, deepens division, and threatens America's ability to lead at home and abroad.

America's future depends on transformational leaders who put duty, integrity, and the common good ahead of personal ambition and partisan gain.

America needs transformational leaders with the vision and moral courage to rise above short-term political transactions, unite its people, and restore a shared sense of national purpose.

The Pentagon risks treating service members as biochemical problems instead of trained individuals capable of courage, judgment, and sacrifice.

Eighteen dead Americans are not “small potatoes” to the families who will carry that loss for the rest of their lives.

Military power can win battles, but without diplomacy, information, and economic pressure working beside it, tactical victories rarely become lasting strategic success.

After 36 years of military service and ten tours in Afghanistan, I have learned that our greatest measure of success is not how many enemies we destroy, but how many human lives we protect and preserve.

Iran is battered by sanctions, inflation, and unrest, but it is no failed state. It remains a functioning, resilient sovereign nation whose complexity gets flattened by convenient political slogans.