The National Security Hour

The National Security Hour with Brandon Weichert – The danger is not simply that the United States could stumble into war with Iran or be drawn deeper into Mexico’s security crisis. The greater risk is that these events signal a broader erosion of strategic clarity. Without clear priorities, reliable alliances, and adaptable military doctrine, even the world’s most powerful nation can find itself...

The National Security Hour with Blanquita Cullum – What does this mean for Americans unable to leave? Some are stuck in airports, many are fearful, and some need medicine and are desperate for a timeline/hope to exit the country. We discuss the massive influence of the cartels, whose reach extends to almost every state in the U.S. Where does it go from here, and how will the...

The National Security Hour with Col. Mike and Dr. Mike – Isn’t it odd that on what seems to be the eve of a U.S. attack on Iran, violent demonstrations and protests have again started inside Iran to serve as another casus belli? This development certainly is occurring thanks to Israeli intelligence operations. Iranians and all Middle Easterners also have heard the U.S. Ambassador in Israel claim that all of...

The National Security Hour with LTC Sargis Sangari – A stadium is not a charity. It is private capital and local jobs. If policy chases headline projects for political reasons while choking everyday taxpayers, that signals weakness. Federal funding can be pulled when states fail basic compliance. That can cost billions in transit, childcare, and infrastructure. Credit agencies warn that thin margins and...

The National Security Hour with Major Fred Galvin – While Russia wages war in Europe and China expands its industrial and military dominance, Western leaders are locked in a battle over borders, identity, energy policy, and escalation strategy. How decades of offshoring America’s manufacturing base have hollowed out our defense industrial strength. Why mass migration is no longer just a...

The National Security Hour with Brandon Weichert – Here’s the uncomfortable truth: secrecy is built into power. Intelligence agencies need it. Diplomacy depends on it. Negotiations require it. The challenge isn’t eliminating secrets — it’s preventing them from becoming private chains on public decision-makers. Because once leaders are ruled by what they’re afraid might come out, they’re no longer serving the...

The National Security Hour with Blanquita Cullum – A classic film meets modern politics as the filibuster takes center stage in today’s congressional battles. From 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' to current debates over majority rule, media influence, and youth activism, this discussion examines power, persuasion, and constitutional principles shaping America’s future at home and abroad...

The National Security Hour with Col. Mike and Dr. Mike – Author Ian Trottier argues that former CIA Director John Brennan sits at the center of sweeping intelligence corruption spanning the Obama and Biden years. Drawing on research and declassified material, *High Stakes Treason* alleges ties to 9/11, Russian collusion, and deep state financial misconduct that threaten the republic...

The National Security Hour with Major Fred Galvin – Unmanned aerial systems now provide persistent surveillance, precision strikes, and loitering munitions that are cheap, lethal, and disposable. During the Biden years, Houthi rebels repeatedly launched low-cost drones at U.S. Navy ships, forcing America to respond with multi-million-dollar missiles—a losing economic and strategic equation...

The National Security Hour with Brandon Weichert – Trump went full Truth Social: “locked and loaded,” red lines, moral theatrics. Then the regime allegedly crossed the line with a brutal crackdown, and suddenly the White House is trapped by its own swagger. When you publicly promise to “do something,” you don’t get to be surprised when you’re asked what, exactly, you plan to...

The National Security Hour with Blanquita Cullum – There has always been a concern and outcry of voter fraud in the past. What is different and potentially more dangerous this time, and how to prevent it? On this edition of the National Security Hour, host Blanquita Cullum is joined David Shestokas a former Cook County Assistant State’s Attorney and he is currently on the Chicago Board of Elections...

The National Security Hour with Col. Mike and Dr. Mike – While the issue has yet to play itself out, Mr. Helegesen said he thought there was room for a compromise based on the fact that Greenland is strategically vital to NATO’s defense planning, and that the United States already has more-or-less unlimited sway in deciding how to ensure its defense arrangements in Greenland, especially...

The National Security Hour with Major Fred Galvin – For years, Americans were told that climate change—not China, not Russia, not Iran—was the greatest existential threat to U.S. national security. Under the Biden administration, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin declared climate change an existential crisis, redirecting the Pentagon’s focus toward 91 environmental research...

The National Security Hour with Brandon Weichert – China isn’t wobbling the way Western chatter claims. In my conversation with veteran factory operator in China, Dan Collins, the signal came through loud and clear: there’s no coup in modern China, and this latest “purge panic” is more likely about power discipline (corruption, war planning, or both) than palace intrigue...

The National Security Hour with Blanquita Cullum – Are dangerous foreign players stepping in to create more volatility inside and outside of Iran? Who are the main players? China? Russia? Domestically, are foreign entities, countries, or individuals propping up and supporting demonstrations in the US? Where does it lead—to what end? Who is sitting at the table of this series of organized chaos?

The National Security Hour with Col. Mike and Dr. Mike – Calls grow for decisive action as unrest spreads across American cities, with claims of an organized insurrection undermining law, sovereignty, and constitutional order. The focus centers on political leadership, foreign influence, immigration, and national security, urging immediate enforcement of existing laws to preserve the republic...

The National Security Hour with LTC Sargis Sangari – We are living through a revival of great power competition that plays out in places most Americans never imagined. We must put American interests first, strengthen defenses across the hemisphere and the Arctic, and stand with those who risk everything for freedom. That is how we protect the republic our founders entrusted to us...

The National Security Hour with Major Fred Galvin – The political influence operations aimed at conservatives in the United States are not organic. They are global. Steven Kuhn explains how ideological narratives that historically did not resonate in America—terms like “fascist,” “Nazi,” “authoritarian,” and “no kings”—were developed, normalized, and weaponized in Europe, then deliberately...

The National Security Hour with Brandon Weichert – There is a better alternative: stop outsourcing U.S. policy to proxy forces with extremist roots; stop laundering their reputations to fit Beltway talking points; stop treating local allies as disposable; and stop building Iran strategy on the most volatile accelerant in the region. If the last twenty years taught anything, it’s that chaos is easy to unleash and...

The National Security Hour with Blanquita Cullum – According to Andi Buerger J.D., survivor, founder, and Chairman of Voices Against Trafficking, “At a time when real-life heroes or role models can be scarce, ordinary people are making a difference in human rights, not for glory but for good.” Andi, a survivor, shares insights on how to recognize and help victims...

The National Security Hour with Col. Mike and Dr. Mike – On Iran, Professor Dorsey noted that Trump’s foreign-policy behavior has been – as it was in Venezuela – on-again (ready for war) and off -again (marking time until war). Professor Dorsey said this is a very dangerous way to treat the Iranian government. That government is fully aware of the force the US can bring to bear on the...

The National Security Hour with LTC Sargis Sangari – If we want a safer world, start with real health. Fund sanitation and nutrition. Strengthen oversight, so aid serves people, not contracts. Insist that pathogen sharing is transparent, time-limited, and tied to capacity building. Break the monopoly of secrecy around genetic data. Hold bureaucracies accountable. Return medicine to the bedside and away...

The National Security Hour with Major Fred Galvin – Because Greenland sits on the shortest strategic line between Eurasia and the United States—a corridor now exploited by Sino-Russian increased military coordination, including both undersea mapping operations to destroy vital underseas communications lines, mapping of underseas terrain for adversaries safe submarine navigation into the western...

The National Security Hour with Brandon Weichert – America bleeds power not through invasion, but through strategic incompetence. Control of global chokepoints still decides trade, war, and influence, yet Washington turns quiet leverage into public theater. As allies grow uneasy and rivals advance patiently, geography exposes a deeper rot: an empire that outsourced strength, mistreats partners, and mistakes noise for power...

The National Security Hour with Blanquita Cullum – Does the United States need to take control of a country like Greenland to establish a “Golden Dome” to protect the United States? Are our longtime allies moving toward countries that pose a threat to us, such as Canada and Mexico, cozying up to China? How about Iran? How close are they to countries like Venezuela, Nicaragua, Bolivia, and...

The National Security Hour with LTC Sargis Sangari – There is no easy exit from this trap. Iran is not a single narrative. Kurds, Arabs, Turks, Persians, leftists, monarchists, moneyed factions, and armed units all push their own vision. Whoever holds the guns will have a seat at the table. There is no clear, uncontested leader to replace the clerical state. Someone waving an old royal flag will not unify...

The National Security Hour with Col. Mike and Dr. Mike – For the United States, according to Professor Dorsey, a military intervention would be a mistake of large proportions. Indeed, it probably would unite the Iranian population against the United States. In terms of politics, culture, and reputation, the United States at the moment possesses almost nothing that Iranians are eager to have at home...

The National Security Hour with Major Fred Galvin – From Iran’s long revolutionary history to the present-day uprising, to the global shockwaves that could follow regime change, this is not about what already happened—it’s about what may happen next. For the United States, global allies, and strategic competitors alike, the stakes are enormous. China currently depends on Iran and Venezuela for...

The National Security Hour with Brandon Weichert – What we do now is drift from conflict to conflict, using the U.S. military as a global enforcement arm for political frustration. Venezuela today. Ukraine yesterday. Iran tomorrow. The logic is always the same: we can, therefore we should. A real national security strategy does three things. It keeps Americans safe, free, and prosperous. It avoids wars we...

The National Security Hour with Col. Mike and Dr. Mike – U.S. actions in Venezuela expose the recurring dangers of interventionism, from regime uncertainty to costly military escalation. The narrative questions war driven by oil, politics, and global norms, arguing that targeting leaders invites disaster. Drawing on intelligence experience, it warns that endless wars drain lives, liberty, and national strength while weakening democratic...

The National Security Hour with LTC Sargis Sangari – Brennan allegedly defrauded the US Government and its People by inducing Congress to spend more money to stop terrorism that it needed to—the result was due to Brennan’s deliberate inability to keep the nation safe. High Stakes Treason reveals what appears to be a major act of treasonous financial fraud committed against the American people...

The National Security Hour with Major Fred Galvin – The United States, China, Russia, and Iran don’t operate alone. They rely on alliances, partners, and proxies—working together economically and militarily to project power, deter rivals, and advance strategic interests across the globe. From the Middle East and Eastern Europe to the Indo-Pacific and the Western Hemisphere, Fred Galvin explains how...

The National Security Hour with Brandon Weichert – The raid that removed Nicolás Maduro was tactically brilliant. Anyone saying otherwise is lying—or coping. But the real story isn’t the raid itself. It’s what it normalized. For the first time in decades, the United States wielded hard power unapologetically in the Western Hemisphere. Not in Europe. Not in the Middle East. At home...

The National Security Hour with Col. Mike and Dr. Mike – Maduro’s lieutenants are reported to be in charge of producing the vote-counting machines that have been used for fixing U.S. elections, and that operation would never be conducted without the full knowledge of Venezuela’s President. How credible a witness Maduro would be against the legion of Democrats and NGOs who ran the...

The National Security Hour with Major Fred Galvin – Once the wealthiest nation in Latin America, Venezuela has been reduced to authoritarian rule, economic ruin, and criminal governance under Nicolás Maduro. And into that collapse stepped China—buying oil, gold, rare-earth minerals, and political loyalty in exchange for billions in loans that turned a sovereign nation into a CCP client state...

The National Security Hour with Brandon Weichert – Congress devolves into spectacle as war talk over Venezuela advances without debate or accountability. Leaders dodge responsibility, outsource courage to social media, and risk dragging the military into partisan conflict. Meanwhile, young Americans fall behind economically and lose faith in institutions. Ignore them, and political extremes rush in to fill the vacuum...

The National Security Hour with Col. Mike and Dr. Mike – A sweeping critique of American leadership argues that decades of misguided foreign interventions, from World War I to today, weaken national prosperity and security. The piece challenges interventionist instincts, questions elite priorities, and warns that endless wars and unchecked immigration erode the interests of ordinary Americans...

The National Security Hour with Blanquita Cullum – Ethiopia, one of the world’s oldest Christian nations, faces escalating violence targeting believers and sacred institutions. As instability spreads across the Horn of Africa, concerns grow over terrorism, foreign influence, and human rights abuses. Congressional action highlights why Ethiopia’s crisis matters to global security, faith communities, and U.S. strategic interests today...

The National Security Hour with Col. Mike and Dr. Mike – U.S. sabers are still rattling, three more U.S. military personnel are dead, and the politicians of the Democratic Party, their RINO allies, and the traitorous federal bureaucracy are still walking free, with no apparent concerns that their well-known crimes will be punished with the severity and perhaps the finality they merit...

The National Security Hour with Major Fred Galvin – What happens to a nation when it has laws… But no one enforces them? Borders collapse. Cartels expand. Embargoes are ignored. And America’s enemies stop fearing consequences. This week on The National Security Hour, host Fred Galvin delivers a hard, unfiltered comparison America cannot afford to ignore...

The National Security Hour with Brandon Weichert – On the ground, he says, Russia is advancing, Ukraine is bleeding out, and the country is being depopulated. By some estimates, he hears from his network that thousands of Ukrainian men are being lost every week. We haven’t “saved” Ukraine – we’ve helped grind it into a rump state. And now, in Trump’s second term, we’re finally talking about...

The National Security Hour with Blanquita Cullum – If we want a future with free worship and free speech, we must defend the habits that sustain them. Teach children the facts and the faith that formed them. Insist that public institutions protect conscience and rights. Stand up when neighbors are ridiculed or arrested for praying. Speak plainly about what is true and what is false...

The National Security Hour with Col. Mike and Dr. Mike – The paper calls for enhanced security in the Western Hemisphere to build economic cooperation, create stronger democracies, and remove foreign influences. This plan amounts to a reinvigoration of the early 19th Century’s Monroe Doctrine, which has been dead for at least half a century. Originally designed to prevent European efforts to...

The National Security Hour with Col. Mike and Dr. Mike – I challenge fear driven narratives surrounding comets, aliens, viruses, climate change, and terrorism, arguing they distract the public from global power agendas. It questions media credibility, government motives, economic manipulation, depopulation claims, and the push toward digital currency while urging skepticism of official stories and constant manufactured crisis cycles...

The National Security Hour with Major Fred Galvin – Major Fred Galvin exposes why the November 2025 National Security Strategy ignites a political firestorm. As America First defense reforms threaten globalist power, legacy contractors, media allies, and entrenched elites launch coordinated attacks on Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, aiming to stop a strategy that prioritizes sovereignty, strength, and decisive victory...

The National Security Hour with Brandon Weichert – Washington’s wars reshape the Middle East through calculated instability, empowering extremists while dismantling states once seen as threats. From Camp Bucca to Syria’s battlefields, policies framed as liberation instead fuel chaos. As foreign actors profit and ideologues pull strings, Americans confront a strategy that endangers security while masking itself as global stewardship...

The National Security Hour with Col. Mike and Dr. Mike – Rising media claims predict imminent U.S. conflict with Venezuela as foreign forces, weapons, and alliances reportedly flood the region. Billions keep American troops on standby while Cold War thinking endures. The piece questions interventionism, military readiness, propaganda, and the long-term costs of perpetual war at home and abroad today globally...

The National Security Hour with LTC Sargis Sangari – Taiwan stands at the center of America’s survival as a nation. I argue from experience that our security, economy, and strategic freedom now depend on a single island producing the chips that power modern defense and industry. Ignoring this reality risks surrendering sovereignty, stability, and moral clarity in an increasingly dangerous world...

The National Security Hour with Major Fred Galvin – While America faces record narcotics deaths, international criminal networks flooding our borders, Chinese-backed Venezuelan cartels trafficking fentanyl precursors into our hemisphere, and violent crime surging in blue cities — the left has chosen a new enemy: The United States of America’s Secretary of War Pete Hegseth...

The National Security Hour with Brandon Weichert – China and Russia quietly reshape the Arctic while the United States remains distracted. As melting ice opens new trade routes and military frontlines, power shifts north. Russia builds infrastructure and influence, China embeds itself strategically, and Washington falls behind. The future of global trade and security is being decided at the top of the world...