With great fanfare, the newly installed American President Donald Trump launched the idea of the United States creating an “Iron Dome” to protect America against aerial threats, similar to how […]
Author Archives: Patrick Bolder
Patrick Bolder is a retired Lieutenant-Colonel from the Royal Netherlands Air Force with 40 years of service after graduating from the Royal Military Academy. He successfully graduated Higher Staff College in 2001 and NATO Defence College in 2015. He was stationed at policy departments at the Airstaff and Defence staff. He was deployed (twice) to the United States Security Coordinator mission in Ramallah, Palestine in 2012 and 2017 and was seconded to the Hague Centre for Strategic Studies (HCSS), a geopolitical orientated thinktank until retirement in 2021.