Category: Foreign Policy

The Strait is the hinge. If it stays disrupted, the war spills into global markets and domestic politics—where alliances are far easier to fracture than to hold together.

The U.S. military buildup in the Middle East is shifting the trajectory of the Iran war. Reinforcements on the ground are creating options for limited operations tied to critical terrain, energy infrastructure, and maritime access. The force package suggests preparation for targeted missions rather than invasion, but once troops are committed, the risks expand quickly.

Kharg Island is small enough to overlook and important enough to matter. As Iran’s primary oil export hub, it concentrates economic power into a few square miles of exposed terrain, making it both an attractive target and a difficult place to hold under sustained pressure.

A new form of global conflict is already underway, one that fuses conventional warfare with hybrid tactics, emerging technologies, and sustained economic pressure across multiple theaters. From Ukraine to the Middle East, this post modern war is defined less by decisive battles than by endurance, cost imposition, and strategic simultaneity, raising urgent questions about whether Western militaries and political systems are structured to compete over the long term.

A system built for endurance doesn’t break under pressure, it adapts, absorbs, and keeps shaping the battlefield long after its opponents think the game is over.

A small but visible group of Americans has turned toward Russia in recent years, some out of ideology, others out of necessity, and a few out of pure opportunism. Their stories differ, but the pattern is clear. When doors close at home, Moscow has a way of opening one.

A war launched without a defined end state, sold through metrics and bravado, and blind to an enemy that measures time in generations rather than news cycles, is not a path to victory but a slow-motion admission of strategic failure.

Israeli tanks positioned along the northern Israel–Lebanon border, deployed in a defensive posture amid ongoing cross-border fighting with Hezbollah.

US faces rising threats: Iran threatens the Strait, drones breach defenses, and Cuba signals military readiness.

Hope is not a plan. Our troops are ready, but Washington must lay out clear objectives and a real strategy on Iran.

Bolduc critiques the Trump administration’s Iran policy, highlighting military focus, strained alliances, and public discontent.

Twenty-three years after Iraq, the United States is back in the Middle East, fighting a war while the character of the conflict shifts in real time. In its first weeks, the Iran war has exposed vulnerabilities in air defense, strained regional infrastructure, and pushed the fight into the information space and global energy markets.