‘A small number of extremists’: Capitol Police video will show that January 6 was not an insurrection

J Michael Waller / Center for Security Policy / September 28, 2021. Release of US Capitol security videos so far shows no “insurrection” against Congress during the January 6 protests and violent riot. Another 14,000 hours of Capitol Police video remain hidden. When released, they will show that the attack on the Capitol was not … Read more

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

Lessons we didn’t learn from what we were forbidden to say

J Michael Waller / American Greatness / September 10, 2021. America has not learned the lessons of 9/11. The lessons were lost as they were being learned.  Foreign pressure on political leaders in Washington, intellectual laziness or dishonesty in the intelligence community, and political correctness-turned-wokeness made it so. American society repeated those unlearned lessons as … Read more

Лелеющий обиды. Детали психологического портрета Владимира Путина указывают на глубокую уязвимость кремлевского лидера

J Michael Waller and Fredo Arias-King / Center for Security Policy / July 21, 2021. Дж. Майкл Уоллер, Фредо Ариас-Кинг Все свои двадцать один год у власти Владимир Путин представляет себя обществу в образе спасителя России. Руководители этой страны всегда были загадкой для сторонних наблюдателей, но Путин загадочен вдвойне. Даже сегодня, после столь продолжительного нахождения … Read more

Nursing Injustices: An unsparing psychological profile of Vladimir Putin will reveal a deeply vulnerable Kremlin leader

J Michael Waller and Fredo Arias-King / Center for Security Policy / July 20, 2021. Since seizing control of the Kremlin 21 years ago, Vladimir Putin has waged an image-making campaign to build himself as the savior of Russia. The country’s leadership has always been enigmatic to outsiders, but Putin has presented special riddles as … Read more

Zampolits of wokeness

J Michael Waller / American Greatness / June 29, 2021. Wokeness might do to the American military what no foreign enemy ever could: Fracture the world’s greatest armed forces from within, through divisive political indoctrination and controls. Wokeness—extreme ideological intolerance of opposing views and the imposition of life-destroying punishments for the insufficiently woke—is organized fratricide.  … Read more

A woke CIA is a broke CIA

J Michael Waller / Center for Security Policy / June 11, 2021. Bugs and bunnies. That’s what House Intelligence Committee Republican members used to call the CIA’s global warming “analysis” almost two decades ago. So today’s wokeness at the CIA, while shocking, isn’t surprising. It’s the logical product of a continuum that’s been gurgling through … Read more

Capitol Police Inspector General verifies what we observed at January 6 attack

J Michael Waller / Center for Security Policy / April 16, 2021 – An internal US Capitol Police report confirms what the Center reported on its website three months ago: That the Capitol Police were unprepared, poorly organized, and poorly commanded before the January 6 attack. This follows an FBI assistant director’s sworn testimony to … Read more

As crises worsen in Ukraine and Taiwan, China seeks to divide NATO

J Michael Waller / Center for Security Policy / April 12, 2021 – With Russia preparing to attack Ukraine again and China becoming more aggressive about conquering Taiwan, Chinese Communist Party strategists are openly discussing how to divide the NATO alliance. Key takeaways China seeks to co-opt NATO through strategic cooperation. China seeks to divide … Read more