Two ‘Uncle Joes’ – When a president declines cognitively, who is captaining the ship?

J Michael Waller / American Greatness / September 18, 2021 – The distant eyes and slack mouth, the befuddled shuffle off the walkway, recurrent unexplained schedule gaps and public disappearances, and off-the-wall comments finally make Joe Biden a pale copy of his hero, Franklin D. Roosevelt. In wrapping up a war and realigning the world … Read more

Germany sees left-wing extremism becoming more clandestine, sophisticated, and violent

J Michael Waller / Center for Security Policy / September 17, 2021. Left-wing extremism is on the rise in Germany, with one in four groups prone to violence to overthrow the democratic constitutional government, according to the latest official Report on the Protection of the Constitution. “There are no signs that left-wing extremists will end … Read more

Strategic disinformation and the 2020 election

By J Michael Waller / American Greatness / November 23, 2020 – Foreign manipulation of America’s 2020 vote count to help Joe Biden is crazy talk. At least that’s what a lot of people believe, with even supporters of President Trump attacking the initial evidence and the messengers. After the debunked Russian collusion narrative, the … Read more

Responding to Michael Anton in a piece accompanied by Edward Luttwak

I’ve seldom had the opportunity not only to respond to an article by someone who I admire, like Michael Anton, but to have it as a companion piece alongside one written by my lifelong hero, Edward Luttwak. The American Mind, published by the Claremont Institute, invited me to write a piece on a divisive strategy … Read more

‘Commies for Biden’

by J Michael Waller / American Greatness / November 1, 2020 Far from being “spontaneous” or “mythical,” today’s militant political violence is not only organized, it even has user manuals. In destroying statues and other symbols of American history, the new violent extremist movement cultivates its own history:Indoctrinate people without them realizing it, gradually and … Read more

For pro-Biden intelligence veterans, American politics are just another op

J Michael Waller / Center for Security Policy / October 28, 2020 Former vice president Joe Biden showed the world just how politicized and sloppy much of the US intelligence community has become. During his final debate with President Donald Trump, Biden repeatedly called the revelation of his son’s laptop and email contents “Russian disinformation.” … Read more

The Center gave 13 reasons in 2017 for an expanded, bipartisan Russia probe. How did we do?

J Michael Waller / Center for Security Policy / October 18, 2020 More than three years ago, the Center for Security Policy called for expanding bipartisan federal investigations into Russian interference in American politics. That didn’t happen. President Trump’s opposition didn’t want it to. It’s easier than ever to see in hindsight. Studying history, though, … Read more

Biden’s private army and the militarization of American politics

by J Michael Waller / Center for Security Policy / September 15, 2020 The deployment of military psychological warfare technology to defeat President Trump has taken on added meaning since the Washington Post first reported it last May. Now, prominent counterinsurgency practitioners from the Global War on Terror are calling on the American military leadership to overthrow the … Read more

How to place Putin exactly where we want him

J Michael Waller / Center for Security Policy / March 9, 2020 For all the vitriol and finger-pointing about Russia’s Vladimir Putin manipulating our political system, not a single policymaker or pundit has proposed a coherent strategy to turn the tables against him. “Putin, sadly, has got all of our political class, every single one … Read more

Putin continues repressing Christians and recruiting them as spies

by J Michael Waller / Center for Security Policy / February 14, 2020 Russia’s security and intelligence organizations continue both to repress and recruit Christians for subversive work inside the country and abroad. “That this is the case should surprise no one because the threat of repression can be a powerful recruiting tool and the … Read more