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Brandon J. Weichert

Brandon J. Weichert is a geopolitical analyst who manages The Weichert Report. He is a contributor at The American Spectator and a contributing editor at American Greatness. His writings on national security have appeared in Real Clear Politics and he has been featured on the BBC and CBS News. Brandon travels the country lecturing audiences on a wide range of national security policy issues, ranging from the geopolitics of space policy to the rise of China. His work also occasionally appears in Space News, The American Thinker, and The New English Review. A former congressional staffer, he is currently working on his doctorate in international relations.

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Quit Trying to Make Americans Like Each Other

by Brandon J. Weichert | Apr 5, 2020

F. H. Buckley’s newest work, American Secession: The Looming Threat of National Breakup, is probably one of the most important…

Special Report

Do Not Feed the Chinese Dragon Hoping It Will Eat Us Last

by Brandon J. Weichert | Dec 17, 2019

President Donald J. Trump has entered into a tentative deal with the ailing People’s Republic of China to ease the…

Another Perspective

Turkey, Not Saudi Arabia, Is Key to Resisting Iran

by Brandon J. Weichert | Dec 10, 2019

The Little Cold War between the United States and Iran rages on. Iran’s theocratic leaders have declared their intentions to…

A Further Perspective

Counter Iran’s Threat With the Merchant Marines

by Brandon J. Weichert | Nov 23, 2019

The situation between the United States (as well as its regional partners, like the Sunni Arab states and Israel) and…

Another Perspective

A Deal With China Is a Loss for America

by Brandon J. Weichert | Oct 20, 2019

At a recent dinner for a group of high-ranking military officers at an undisclosed location in the bucolic American countryside,…

Another Perspective

Obama Broke NATO

by Brandon J. Weichert | Oct 16, 2019

Since the end of the Cold War, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has been fraying. Without the common Soviet…

Another Perspective

The Syrian Kurds Are Not America’s Problem

by Brandon J. Weichert | Oct 14, 2019

All of Washington has been atwitter with the president’s recent decision to draw down American forces from their ongoing mission…

A Further Perspective

Trump Knows Ukraine Owns the Democrats

by Brandon J. Weichert | Oct 6, 2019

President Trump has consistently promised to both “drain the swamp” that is Washington, D.C., as well as to make our…

Political Hay

A Deep Cleansing of the Deep State Is Coming

by Brandon J. Weichert | Oct 2, 2019

First, it is likely that President Donald Trump violated some cockamamie administrative rule when he recently spoke with the new Ukrainian…

At Large

Iran Will Strike Again

by Brandon J. Weichert | Sep 22, 2019

Watching the events of last weekend’s bizarre Iranian attack on Saudi installations, I predicted that the global price of oil would…