The National Security Hour

The National Security Hour with Col. Mike – The uncomfortable truth is that Iran has improved its position. If shipping lanes are managed through territorial waters, if fees are imposed, if Washington's naval pressure must be eased before any opening takes effect, then the bargaining table has already moved toward Tehran. That is not rhetoric. It is leverage. Washington still behaves as...

The National Security Hour with Major Fred Galvin – Budde shares his experiences flying the legendary UH-1N Huey, deploying throughout the Pacific and Central Command regions, and serving in combat in Iraq. He also recounts his demanding role as a Forward Air Controller with a Marine Maritime Special Purpose Force, coordinating aviation support where precision, judgment, and split...

The National Security Hour with Blanquita Cullum – Levine says AI'S new battleground is not technology; it is trust. How does one get to the truth through AI? How are we not manipulated or led astray through convincing presentations, videos, and redefined history? “In artificial intelligence, your reputation is developing at the same speed as your technology, according to Michael Levine...

The National Security Hour with Col. Mike and Dr. Mike – Stephen Helgesen examines growing strains in U.S.-Denmark relations, including disputes over NATO, Ukraine, Greenland, and Iran. He explains how sharper rhetoric and reduced diplomatic engagement weaken a historically friendly alliance while suggesting renewed public outreach and stronger embassy involvement could help repair mutual trust again...

The National Security Hour with LTC Sargis Sangari – The issue is larger than one man's vanity. Fauci became the symbol of a structure that joined scientific authority, federal money, media discipline, pharmaceutical ambition, and emergency power. That structure rewarded certainty when uncertainty was honest, obedience when argument was needed, and coercion when restraint might...

The National Security Hour with Major Fred Galvin – Freedom is rarely lost in a single moment. It disappears gradually—through one silenced voice, one weakened election, and one constitutional right surrendered at a time. These rights are not separate. They form one system: Speech exposes abuse. The vote removes abusive leaders. The Second Amendment protects the people when...

The National Security Hour with Blanquita Cullum – Space—the last frontier? It was our greatest triumph – is it now a distant memory? Today, we are back on the Road to the Moon. Last April, Artemis III test docked along with Elon Musk's SpaceX and Blue Origin landers with the objective to prepare Artemis IV to return to the Moon in 2028...

The National Security Hour with Col. Mike and Dr. Mike – The war with Iran follows America's familiar pattern of unconstitutional intervention, military failure, political betrayal, and economic damage. As lawmakers deepen ties with Israel and expand defense commitments, ordinary Americans face mounting costs, strategic losses, weakened sovereignty, and another conflict fought for foreign interests abroad...

The National Security Hour with Al Johnson (LTC Sangari) – South Korea stands at the center of an intensifying struggle over trade, technology, and regional security. As China, North Korea, and Russia expand pressure, Washington faces growing risks to alliances, semiconductor supply chains, military deterrence, and the broader balance of power across Asia and the Pacific in the years ahead...

The National Security Hour with Major Fred Galvin – The pattern is always the same: grassroots rhetoric, violent revolution, seizure of power, elimination of opposition, destruction of faith, collapse of freedom, enrichment of the party elite, and suffering for the very people the revolution claimed to liberate. Many on the American “progressive” left now champion socialism as the future...

The National Security Hour with Brandon Weichert – Beneath the headlines lies a deeper strategic question: what happens when a nation enters a prolonged conflict without a clear public justification, while the institutions designed to oversee war gradually cease performing their constitutional roles? That question now deserves as much attention as the battlefield itself...

The National Security Hour with Blanquita Cullum – Washington is once again proof that the calendar matters as much as the headlines. With the House racing toward recess and the Senate lingering only a bit longer, lawmakers are trying to stack defense, funding, and election security measures before they vanish for August. The issue is not simply what passes...

The National Security Hour with Col. Mike and Dr. Mike – From absurd levels of taxation, to even more absurd levels of national debt, to wars that are started by presidents on their own volition, and the quiet but ever-progressing denial of protections for the citizens called for by the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, freedom is gradually slipping away from Americans...

The National Security Hour with LTC Sargis Sangari – When Americans chase every local fight without naming the strategist behind the chaos, they are already losing. This is why the fixation on symptoms is so costly. A stolen voter file, a proxy war, a campus protest, a hostile media environment- these are not disconnected events. They are pieces of a larger contest over power and...

The National Security Hour with Major Fred Galvin – This is not just a fight over ships. It is a fight over American credibility, global energy security, inflation, the midterm election battlefield, and whether a rogue regime can hold the world economy hostage while pretending to negotiate peace. Fred will examine Iran's familiar playbook: say one thing before the United Nations...

The National Security Hour with Brandon Weichert – The Charlie Kirk case reveals a widening crisis of confidence in American institutions. Questions about evidence, transparency, and political influence fuel public skepticism toward investigators, courts, federal agencies, and the media. As unanswered concerns multiply, credibility depends on open procedures, clear explanations, and facts that withstand scrutiny under public...

The National Security Hour with Blanquita Cullum – Keller discusses his life on the run with BQ and takes listeners inside the battles between disruptive entrepreneurs and entrenched corporate power, showing how prosecutors, regulators, and competitors worked in tandem to crush a market they could not control. Keller says it is not a “white collar sob story” but a first-person account of...

The National Security Hour with Col. Mike and Dr. Mike – Investigative journalist Jack Maxey and analyst Brandon Weichert examine the expanding Iran war, escalating U.S. strikes, retaliation against American and Israeli targets, military shortages, foreign involvement, and mounting strategic failures. The discussion warns that intervention, weak logistics, political pressure, and possible troop deployments risk a deeper, disastrous...

The National Security Hour with LTC Sargis Sangari – The answer is not American boots on the ground. The answer is already inside Iran. Kurdish, Baluchi, Azeri, Ahwazi Arab, and organized opposition forces have been resisting for years. They need support, recognition, and coordination, not occupation. The world should also stop pretending that a regime built on executions, repression, and...

The National Security Hour with Major Fred Galvin – Where communism gained power, it brought censorship, surveillance, poverty, exile, prisons, food lines, political purges, and a privileged ruling class. Where American liberty has endured, it has produced innovation, opportunity, constitutional rights, medical breakthroughs, religious freedom, and the greatest engine of...

The National Security Hour with Blanquita Cullum – The briefing to be held this week is urging a critical and rapid response to the escalating crisis. In addition to the humanitarian emergency, the Commission will discuss the potential National Security concerns based upon the neighboring countries and terrorist organizations such as Somalia, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, and Kenya...

The National Security Hour with Col. Mike and Dr. Mike – Given the disastrous potential of this Supreme Court decision, Americans would not have been much worse off if George Soros and his maniacal son, rather than John Roberts and Amy Coney Barrett, had been the members of the Supreme Court whose votes gave the three anti-American, anti-Constitution, and Democrat...

The National Security Hour with LTC Sargis Sangari – Sun Tzu's Art of War, 5th century BC, said a supreme excellence in a commander is to get your enemy to surrender without a fight. You make them think you're more powerful and you're everywhere, and you make them think they're weaker than they are, and you sow the doubt and confusion. And now it's called fifth column warfare...

The National Security Hour with Major Fred Galvin – This powerful Independence Week special traces the incredible price paid by our Founding Fathers, the soldiers of Valley Forge, the heroes of Gettysburg, the Marines at Belleau Wood, the warriors of Pearl Harbor, Normandy, Iwo Jima, and every generation that answered our nation's call...

The National Security Hour with Brandon Weichert – The Strait of Hormuz is the artery through which much of the world's energy and countless industrial commodities flow. Allowing Iran to regulate traffic, collect transit fees, or dictate access would fundamentally alter the global trading system and signal a dramatic decline in American naval supremacy. That is why the present ceasefire remains so fragile...

The National Security Hour with Col. Mike and Dr. Mike – As conflict with Iran draws attention, Joel Scausen warns that globalist influence and China pose a greater long-term threat to America. The discussion traces China's rise, U.S. policy failures, military vulnerabilities, and the need for citizens to prepare for shortages, instability, and potential confrontation on American soil...

The National Security Hour with Col. Mike and Brandon Weichert - Washington keeps gambling on force it cannot sustain. Iran knows this. China knows this. Moscow knows it too. The lesson of the last weeks is not that American power is supreme. It is that American power is increasingly theatrical. The Republican establishment promised restraint, renewal, and strength. It has delivered none of it...

The National Security Hour with Major Fred Galvin – Will Iran honor its commitments? Will inspectors gain access? Will Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Houthis remain active? And how will every development be used as political ammunition during one of the most consequential election seasons in modern American history? Fred explains why Americans should reject fear, ignore daily media hysteria...

The National Security Hour with Brandon Weichert – Perhaps the greatest irony of the conflict is that it appears to be strengthening the very powers it was supposed to weaken. For years, American policymakers argued that pressure on Iran would constrain China's rise and limit Russian influence. Instead, the war has highlighted the growing importance of alternative trade routes, pipelines...

The National Security Hour with Blanquita Cullum – Dr. Isik Abla shares her journey from oppression, abuse, and despair in Turkey to a transformative Christian conversion in America. Her testimony highlights religious freedom, the dangers of radical Islam, national security concerns, and the courage required to defend liberty, truth, and moral clarity in an increasingly fragile world...

The National Security Hour with Col. Mike and Dr. Mike – The brewing standoff between the United States and Israel also provides a first-time experience for the American people. Having seen Trump and Vance basically tell Netanyahu to bugger off and stop the war, Netanyahu has so far largely ignored this advice and continues to labor for the breakdown of any kind of deal with Iran...

The National Security Hour with LTC Sargis Sangari – Iran's rulers are not ordinary nationalists searching for security. They are ideologues shaped by revolutionary Shiite doctrine and by a belief that sacrifice, subversion, and strategic patience are valid instruments of statecraft. That is why economic hardship alone will not reform them. Pressure may slow them. It may even wound...

The National Security Hour with Major Fred Galvin – If billions flow back into the hands of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps while proxy networks remain intact, are we purchasing temporary stability today at the expense of a larger conflict tomorrow? Federal authorities disrupted an alleged plot targeting America's 250th Anniversary celebration and the White House UFC event...

The National Security Hour with Blanquita Cullum – Ethiopia's worsening human rights crisis exposes a deeper national security danger as Christians face violence, churches burn, and civilians lose protection. Regional instability, foreign interference, weak institutions, and silence from global leaders demand renewed attention, honest reporting, and firm defense of human dignity now...

The National Security Hour with Col. Mike and Dr. Mike – In virtually all of our lost wars since 1954, Americans have been stuck with paying the costs of reconstruction in the losing country, and that is usually a cost that comes close to or exceeds the price of the war, not counting the cost of the dead on both sides. The celebration of winning a war, then, is not a final win, but the opening of...

The National Security Hour with LTC Sargis Sangari – China's military corruption weakens combat readiness as Beijing faces mounting pressure from energy insecurity, demographic decline, debt, surveillance expansion, and technological rivalry. The United States and its allies gain a rare opportunity to strengthen supply chains, defend Taiwan's semiconductor edge, counter authoritarian exports, and shape a safer global balance order...

The National Security Hour with Major Fred Galvin – I examine fentanyl as a national security threat linking Chinese precursor chemicals, Mexican cartels, counterfeit pills, money laundering, and border failures. The discussion connects Opium Wars history, gray-zone warfare, public health devastation, veterans, families, and enforcement efforts while asking what victory against America's opioid crisis truly requires at home...

The National Security Hour with Brandon Weichert – In place of the old American-led order, Moeini envisions what he calls the “ME5”: a loose regional framework centered on Iran, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Pakistan. These states, he argues, possess the demographic, economic, military, and cultural weight necessary to shape the region's future. While competition among them will...

The National Security Hour with Blanquita Cullum – Jimmy Lai's imprisonment in Hong Kong highlights the growing clash between Communist Chinese authority and fundamental freedoms. Apple Daily's pro-democracy voice draws prosecution under national security laws, while Amnesty International and global advocates call for Lai's release and warn that free speech, human dignity, and rights remain under attack today...

The National Security Hour with Col. Mike and Dr. Mike – The electorate's limited ability to place a partial block on the federal government's wild taxation and mad, depraved, and murder-breeding social policies was found in the task of electing the “lesser of two evils” as president. To a great many of Trump's supporters, as well as those who voted for him as the lesser of two evils, the old gambit of...

The National Security Hour with LTC Sargis Sangari – This is a long game. Iran felt the squeeze. Its economy falters, and its bargaining posture changes. Europe looks less able to shoulder security burdens. Democracies must see this for what it is. National security is not only about one country or one deal. It is about the industrial base, the energy supply, and the rules that govern digital life...

The National Security Hour with Major Fred Galvin – For more than two centuries, civilian control of the military has been the cornerstone of American liberty. Elected leaders set policy. Military leaders provide professional advice. Once lawful decisions are made, the chain of command executes them faithfully and without political interference. But what happens when politics enters the ranks?

The National Security Hour with Brandon Weichert – Yon emphasized the strategic importance of maritime chokepoints such as the Danish Strait, the Strait of Hormuz, the Panama Canal, the Suez Canal, and the Strait of Malacca. These locations are not obscure geographic trivia; they are the pressure valves of the international system. If even one is blocked or militarized, the economic...

The National Security Hour with Blanquita Cullum – On this edition of the National Security Hour, host Blanquita Cullum talks about Trust. Trust in our elections and trust in the new world of AI. First, who gets to run for the office of Governor in a State like Michigan? Who makes the ballot? Is that determined by a primary petition submitted with a significant amount of valid petition signatures...

The National Security Hour with Col. Mike and Dr. Mike – From their view, the U.S. must continue fighting the war, as well as funding and arming Israel until the current government of Iran is obliterated, its nuclear materials are 100-percent destroyed. The Iran fiasco also obscures the world's other ongoing problems that threaten more war. The seemingly endless Ukraine war is one, and with the...

The National Security Hour with LTC Sargis Sangari – When American crude moves through a canal to refuel Asia, the balance shifts. When the United Arab Emirates leaves OPEC, that cartel loses its grip. When Russia sells trapped barrels on open markets, prices climb, and sanctions yield strange beneficiaries. Control of routes decides who can project strength. The Strait of Hormuz matters...

The National Security Hour with Major Fred Galvin – The next conflict will not begin with tanks rolling across borders — it will begin in orbit, through AI systems, drone swarms, cyber attacks, electromagnetic warfare, and attacks against America's critical infrastructure and supply chains. We break down the eight most critical military technology acquisition programs now shaping America's...

The National Security Hour with Brandon Weichert – America's ruling class clings to outdated assumptions as drones, regional wars, energy corridors, and rival alliances transform global power. From Iran to Russia and China, adversaries adapt faster than Washington's strategy, exposing the limits of military dominance and signaling a dangerous shift toward a fragmented, multipolar world order now unfolding...

The National Security Hour with Blanquita Cullum – America has a rich musical heritage, spanning many styles, composers, and performers. Dr. Rich argues that many young people are unfamiliar with influential figures such as Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, John Williams, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, and others. Are students not being educated in the rich legacy of American music?

The National Security Hour with Col. Mike and Dr. Mike – U.S. media reported negotiations breakthroughs, Trump and several people close to him hinted at the same thing, and some even speculated that Iran would join the Abraham Accords. The accompanying undertone to all of these rumors, leaks, and speculations has been the steady drumbeat of war. More Israeli facilities reduced to...

The National Security Hour with Major Fred Galvin – Did Xi quietly agree to pressure Iran to keep the Strait of Hormuz open? Did Trump leverage America's economic and technological power through CEOs like Jensen Huang, Elon Musk, and Tim Cook to pressure Beijing behind closed doors? Did China signal that Taiwan remains its ultimate strategic objective — and did Trump...