The National Security Hour

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...

The National Security Hour with Brandon Weichert – Even more concerning for Washington is the growing realization that China possesses advantages America cannot easily replicate. While the United States still leads in advanced chip design, China generates vastly more electricity and can scale industrial production at enormous levels. Beijing's leadership also possesses far greater...

The National Security Hour with Blanquita Cullum – Once an organ is available, the surgical window is tight. Organs must be transplanted quickly. If you need a transplant and you are not at the top of the list, it can be devastating. However, many have chosen to get organ transplants in China. Fortunately, the waiting time is minimal; unfortunately, the organs reportedly come from living victims...

The National Security Hour with Col. Mike and Dr. Mike – On the home front, Americans are watching the efforts of Trump, his billionaire buddies, the AI gangsters, and most wealthy Democrats complete the effort begun by Franklin Roosevelt to completely centralize the federal government, to create a ruling elite that is drawn from the same sections of society and from the same elite colleges, large...

The National Security Hour with LTC Sargis Sangari – We cannot pretend there is a reset that will fix this at a trade table. The real contest is over security, values, and who will write the rules. The United States must act with clarity. We must harden supply chains for critical technology, shelter partners who rely on us for security, and expose the networks that buy influence and silence...

The National Security Hour with Major Fred Galvin – What happens the day Iran obtains a nuclear weapon? This powerful special broadcast examines the strategic, military, economic, and geopolitical consequences of a nuclear-armed Iran—and why the threat extends far beyond Israel and the Persian Gulf. Fred Galvin takes listeners deep into the realities many world leaders refuse to...

The National Security Hour with Brandon Weichert – How did one of the most sophisticated intelligence states on Earth fail to prevent such a large-scale attack? And if the warnings were known beforehand, who chose to ignore them? Those questions continue to haunt not only Israel but the entire world, which now stares at the possibility of a much larger war...

The National Security Hour with Blanquita Cullum – In 1969, singer-songwriter Joe South wrote a stirring song relevant to today's show, to remind us of the cost of that valor mixed with pain and suffering. The song was “Walk A Mile in My Shoes.” According to the Veterans Administration, there are approximately 42,000 Veterans living with spinal cord injuries that result in paralysis and often an inability to walk...

The National Security Hour with Col. Mike and Dr. Mike – America faces rising debt, inflation, endless military spending, and deep political dysfunction as both parties expand government power and financial instability. Public frustration grows over economic decline, failed foreign interventions, and entrenched politicians who continue enriching themselves while ordinary Americans struggle with declining purchasing power and uncertainty...

The National Security Hour with LTC Sargis Sangari – America holds a rare lever over a rising China. The choke points are not just ships and missiles. Energy and trust are the battlefield now. When cheap Iranian oil stops flowing, a global scramble begins. China pays in influence and discounted barrels. The United States can force them to pay full price. That matters more than...

The National Security Hour with Major Fred Galvin – After transitioning from the military, Earl rebuilt his life with the same discipline and determination that defined his service—mastering the trade of carpentry and launching a successful home improvement business. Today, he continues to build, this time restoring lives. Fresh off a transformative experience with a Hooks of Hope retreat, Earl shares...

The National Security Hour with Brandon Weichert – Weichert argues that oil prices could approach $200 per barrel if the Strait of Hormuz remains closed. Inflation forecasts are worsening by the week. JPMorgan initially projected inflation climbing above 4 percent under a prolonged blockade scenario, but some analysts now believe inflation could surge closer to 7 percent by late summer...

The National Security Hour with Blanquita Cullum – Blanquita Cullum examines the alarming rise in attacks against people of faith worldwide, from religious persecution and violence to human trafficking and organ harvesting. Pastor William Devlin and artist Hooman Khalilli discuss global threats to religious freedom, cultural intolerance, and the growing controversy surrounding faith and expression...

The National Security Hour with Col. Mike and Dr. Mike – U.S. policy wields sanctions as both leverage and risk in Iran relations, shaping energy markets, trade flows, and geopolitical balance. Economic pressure challenges rivals but can entrench resistance, empower elites, and expose strategic gaps, demanding a shift toward economic statecraft, resilience, and negotiated outcomes over prolonged confrontation and costly escalation...