Steve Baker of Blaze Media briefed us a few weeks ago about who J. Michael Waller is and his background. We were blown away!
Steve got my attention by sending me a note that asked, “Was mind control used on January 6?”
I had heard from numerous “unnamed sources” that there were not just a few “instruments” and manipulation processes used during the riot of January 6. However, we all know that fallback for labeling any “questionable” incident in which “regular” Americans confront U.S. government “experts” as “conspiracy theories.”
That said, journalists—including Steve Baker of Blaze Media—spotted curious details that pointed to more than what caught our attention.
Steve recently sat down with one of the most educated experts on numerous mysteries that are often unexplainable using normal conclusions. Before you watch this video, take a moment to read Dr. Waller’s resume to understand that he is, without question, one of the REAL experts watching our government intelligence operations at numerous levels.
J. Michael Waller, Ph.d
J. Michael Waller is a scholar-practitioner in strategic communication and unconventional conflict.
He is currently President of Georgetown Research, a political risk and private intelligence company in Washington, D.C., and Senior Analyst for Strategy at the Center for Security Policy. He was also a founding editorial board member of NATO’s peer-reviewed Defence Strategic Communications journal (2015-2018).
Dr. Waller holds a Ph.D. in international security affairs from Boston University. He received his military training as an insurgent with the Nicaraguan Democratic Force (contras). For 13 years he was the Walter and Leonore Annenberg Professor of International Communication at the Institute of World Politics in Washington, D.C., where he designed and taught the world’s only graduate program on public diplomacy and political warfare.
He is the author or editor of books on intelligence, political warfare, public diplomacy, terrorism, and subversion. His latest book is Big Intel: How the CIA and FBI went from Cold War Heroes to Deep State Villains (Regnery 2024). See his page on Academia.edu.
He has written for American Greatness, The American Mind, The Daily Beast, Daily Caller, The Federalist, Forbes, Insight, Investor’s Business Daily, Kyiv Post, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Post and New York Times, Reader’s Digest, Real Clear Politics, USA Today, the Washington Examiner, the Washington Times, and the Wall Street Journal.
Summary of Experience and Skills
- Over 30 years of experience in defense, national security, and foreign policy development and execution outside the federal government.
- Entrepreneurial scholar-practitioner with a Ph.D. and real-world practice in defense, security, and foreign policy for private and government clients and sponsors.
- National security graduate school professor for 13 years.
- Instructor for military, diplomatic, intelligence, and counterintelligence professionals.
- Specialist in propaganda, political warfare, psychological strategy, subversion, and strategic communication.
- Hands-on work with insurgencies and counterinsurgency efforts.
- Involvement at all levels with planning and execution of political and psychological warfare campaigns against oppressive regimes and movements and in support of nationalist self-determination movements.
- Designer of political and psychological campaigns for reputation management and litigation support.
- Established writer on defense, national security, and foreign affairs for policy, as well as scholarly, professional, and general publications.
- Published in Forbes, Investor’s Business Daily, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Reader’s Digest, USA Today, Washington Times, Wall Street Journal and elsewhere.
- Founding editorial board member of NATO’s Defence Strategic Communication scholarly journal and a peer-reviewed university journal.
- Experienced public speaker at conferences, panels, seminars, and debates.
- Electronic media experience as a guest on hundreds of radio and television shows.
- Architect of issues-based social media campaigns.
- Manager of scholarly and policy-related research and writing teams.
- Experienced in project and concept development, team recruitment, research and editorial policy and procedure, publicity and public affairs, business plans, budgets, fundraising support, and donor relations.
Present
- President, Georgetown Research, Washington, DC.
- Senior Analyst for Strategy, Center for Security Policy, Washington, DC.
- Advisory Board Member, Niccolo Machiavelli Institute, Rome, Italy.
Media
Authored more than 200 policy-related articles, journalistic articles, reviews and op-eds since 1983, including Forbes, Investor’s Business Daily, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Post, the New York Times, Reader’s Digest, the Washington Times, Insight magazine (former senior staff writer), USA Today and the Wall Street Journal; plus the Daily Beast, Daily Caller, and Real Clear Politics. Ghost wrote articles for the New York Times and other newspapers. Click here for a partial listing.
Guest commentator on ABC, Alhurra Middle East News Network, BBC radio and TV, BBC World Service in Spanish, CBC, CNN, CNN International, CNN en Español, CBS, C-SPAN, DMC Egypt, Fox News, MSNBC, NBC, NPR, PBS, Voice of America, and other channels. Hosted 16 episodes of MSNBC’s “War Room” program after 9/11.
Scholarly peer-reviewed journals
Editorial board member since 1992 of Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization, first published in cooperation with the American University and Moscow State University, and presently with the George Washington University.
Founding editorial board member, 2015-18, of Defence Strategic Communications, published by NATO’s Centre of Excellence for Strategic Communication in Riga, Latvia.
Education
- Ph.D., International Security Affairs, Boston University, 1993. GPA: 3.95.
- University Professors Program.
- Earhart Fellow, Institute for the Study of Conflict, Ideology and Policy.
- Recipient of University Professors Alumni Award for best dissertation.
- Dissertation: Secret Empire: The KGB In Russia Today (Westview, 1994).
- Dissertation committee: Professors Lawrence Martin-Bittman (Ladislav Bittman), William C. Green, Uri Ra’anan. Outside adviser: Stanislav Levchenko.
- M.A., International Relations and Communication, Boston University, 1989. GPA: 3.96.
- John Silber Presidential Scholar.
- John M. Olin Fellow, Center for Defense Journalism.
- Master’s thesis committee: Professors Lawrence Martin-Bittman (Ladislav Bittman), H. Joachim Maitre, Bernard Rubin.
- B.A., International Affairs, George Washington University, 1985. GPA: 3.70.
- Phi Beta Kappa.
Honors
University Professors Distinguished Alumni Award, Boston University, 2004.
Leonore and Walter Annenberg Chair, International Communications, Institute of World Politics, 2002-2013.
Dr. Waller holds the British hereditary title of 10th Baronet of Newport, Tipperary, but he does not use it as an American citizen.
