Brandon Weichert

Brandon J. Weichert is a geopolitical analyst who manages The Weichert Report: World News Done Right and lives by Herman Kahn’s credo “I’m against fashionable thinking.” Weichert is the author of the 2020 book, “Winning Space: How America Remains a Superpower” (Republic Book Publishers) which trended as the #1 Military Policy book on Amazon for several months after its release. A favorite on the military lecture circuit, Weichert often serves as a Subject Matter Expert for the Defense Department where he talks space warfare strategies and technology policy. Dennis Prager described Winning Space as a “Truly important book.” Weichert is the author of the 2023 #1 Amazon Bestseller “Biohacked: China’s Race to Control Life” (Encounter Books), which Steven K. Bannon says “cracked the code” on China’s master plans for global domination. Weichert travels the country speaking to various audiences on geo-technology matters and has been described as a “panic-and-anxiety-producing scholar in the tradition of Herman Kahn: telling us what we do not want to hear but need to know about the gathering dangers imperiling our freedom and prosperity.”

In July 2023, Weichert’s third book “The Shadow War: Iran’s Quest for Supremacy” (Republic Book Publishers) will be released. Daniel Pipes calls it an “ambitious book that explains how to avoid World War III.” Weichert’s work has been featured in The Washington Times, Real Clear Politics, National Review, and The Asia Times. He was previously a contributor at The American Spectator, where the late Rush Limbaugh praised his writing as well as for American Greatness, where his pieces on foreign and technology policy were widely distributed in the Trump Administration. In 2023, Weichert was made a Senior Editor at 19FortyFive.com. He is a former congressional staffer who splits his time between sunny Southwest Florida and bucolic Northern Virginia and is the happy husband of Ashley and proud father of 3.

Videos

Speech Topics

The Shadow War: Iran’s Quest for Supremacy

Since its founding in 1979, the Islamic Republic of Iran has had one overarching policy: in order to be secure in its region, the regime must push the Americans out, keep their Sunni Arab neighbors down, and defeat the Israelis. Yet, their enemies are wealthier, more technologically advanced, and conventionally more powerful than Iran is. To counter these strengths, Iran has engaged in a decadeslong Shadow War against these enemies. Iran’s regime has funded terrorist networks, provided weapons and support to the enemies of America, Israel, and the Sunni Arabs; they’ve partnered with American foes, like China and Russia, too. Now, Iran is on the brink of acquiring a viable nuclear weapons arsenal. The Shadow War is entering a new phase today. It is shifting from the shadows and moving into the light. This talk explains the Iran threat, why we cannot negotiate with the regime, and how the United States must stand shoulder-to-shoulder with our allies in Israel and the Sunni Arab states to counter Iran’s growth–before Iran initiates a massive regional war that could lead to World War III.

Demographics, Destiny, and Decline

“Demographics is Destiny” is the old saying. The West has led the world in demographic decline. But it is a truly global phenomenon. Most analysts assess that demographics are inversely correlated with the development status of a society. The more developed a nation is, the smaller its demography will be. It is believed that the 2050s will be a period of marked demographic decline for the Middle East, with Iran leading the region in this decline. What’s more, in Europe, the native-born population is rapidly declining while being slowly replaced by new populations from the Greater Middle East. Long-range U.S. foreign policy must take these factors into account. In this talk, Brandon J. Weichert discusses the dangers that demographics poses and assesses that all of our assumptions about demography are wrong. We are entering a period of relative decline and the United States must prepare not for a world overflowing with too many mouths to feed, but a world in which there are not enough people.

The Axis of Autocrats: China, Iran, and Russia

The United States finds itself in a fundamentally different geopolitical environment than it has historically been in. For the first time in decades, America is challenged by near-peer rivals, like China and Russia, for global supremacy. Meanwhile, Iran seeks to box the Americans out of the Middle East by aligning more closely with China and Russia. Their plan is working. In fact, many Americans are understandably tired of being involved in the Middle East. But, the Mideast’s resource wealth makes it an important region that the United States, as the preeminent global superpower, must have a major role in. Should the Americans abandon the region, it will have granted a major victory to China and Russia–and given the murderous Iranian regime the opportunity it needs to take over the Middle East. None of these realities are conducive to the interests of the United States. This lecture will breakdown the dangers of allowing for the Iran-China-Russia axis to gain strength and outline what we must do to stop them.