Brandon J. Weichert is the Senior National Security Editor. He was previously the senior national security editor at The National Interest. Weichert is the host of The National Security Hour on iHeartRadio, where he discusses national security policy every Wednesday at 8 pm Eastern. He hosts a companion show on Rumble entitled "National Security Talk." Weichert consults regularly with various government institutions and private organizations on geopolitical issues. His writings have appeared in numerous publications, among them Popular Mechanics, National Review, MSN, and The American Spectator. And his books include Winning Space: How America Remains a Superpower, Biohacked: China's Race to Control Life, and The Shadow War: Iran's Quest for Supremacy. Weichert's newest book, A Disaster of Our Own Making: How the West Lost Ukraine, is available for purchase wherever books are sold. He can be followed on Twitter/X at @WeTheBrandon.
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Zelensky says Ukrainian intelligence expects Russia to draft up to half a million additional troops after September's parliamentary elections. The Kremlin has said nothing...
American and Saudi aircraft struck Iran-backed militias across six Iraqi provinces, CENTCOM says, retaliation for drone attacks on American bases and Saudi energy sites....
CENTCOM says Iran's Revolutionary Guard fired a wave of ballistic missiles from Iraq on Tuesday night and that American defenses stopped many of them....
Per Foreign Policy, Russia isn't near collapse — but its war-finance options are narrowing: oligarch assets seized, corporate taxes up, regional transfers frozen at...
Brandon Weichert ties Zelensky's unverified claim — Russia seeking 30,000 more North Korean troops, atop roughly 14,000 deployed now — to Gen. Xavier Brunson's...