Michael Woodson
Retrospective: Alaska Summit and the New National Security Strategy
As President Donald Trump had ruler Vladimir Putin’s buy-in for what looked like a cameo episode of “The Apprentice,” the script was probably set between the two if for no other reason that Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, wearing a USSR onesie said that Russia “never plans ahead.” At this point, most Americans would be…
To Dispel Autocratic Mantras
Popping the balloon of autocratic lies.
U.S. 2025 H1B Visa Policy Aids Russian War Economy, Despite Admonitions to Allies to Do Opposite
As Russian dictator Vladimir Putin drives his inexperienced troops into a war of skyrocketing attrition for diminishing returns, the Trump Administration’s H1B Visa policy requiring $100,000 payment for H1B Visas from mostly Indian tech professionals is driving New Delhi to redirect Indian tech labor to help fill Russia’s civilian labor shortage crisis caused by Putin’s…
Vaxx-Aversion & Russia’s Biowarfare Facility Expansion
From the “what could go wrong” files: Bioweapons Facility Expansion In October 2024, the Nuclear Threat Initiative cited a Washington Post story publishing satellite images of extensive expansion work at the Sergiev Posad-6 biological facility outside of Moscow. The Soviet Union had once engineered biowarfare agents at the Sergiev Posad-6 facility. As Putin pursues Soviet…
U.S. Self-Sabotage: Aiding Russia Aids China
For most of 2025, U.S. foreign policy has slow-coded the needs of Ukrainian defense and sovereignty, advancing Russia’s military aggression and prolonging Russia’s need for, and payouts to China with oil for cash, dual use military technology, and other proxy benefits from China. Russia and China have established an axial economic and financial regime with…
Putin’s Willpower: The 25% Tariffs on Canada and Mexico
The only effective purpose of hitting both Canada and Mexico with 25% tariffs at once, besides causing economic havoc, damaging free trade resource-price efficiencies, and levying a hidden tax on Americans, is to enrage Canadians and Mexicans to make more, not fewer entanglements with China and Russia against the security, defense, and freedom of North…
U.S.A.: The Land of the Free, Home of the Brave is a Country Owned by the People, Not a plutocracy
The Trump Administration would coerce allies to treat the U.S. as an imperial company that they either must pay to play with, or be acquired by. The implication of this is that the people of the U.S.A. are not free, but are now represented by an autocratic CEO or president. Yet the U.S.A. is not…
Forecasting: AI is Reading & Watching the Actions of its Founders
For the purposes of this green paper, consider “AI” to mean deep learning artificial neural networks of human and human-error-based artificial design of different levels of complexity that evolve in unpredictable ways due to limited knowledge, entropy, ignorance, tunnel vision, unknown unknowns, coding error, design, hacking, unforeseen logical twists and turns combined, and more. The…
MAGA Quandary: Are The Majority 47’s Boss or Have They Abdicated to a Minority Extreme?
[Above photo: Proud Boys, pardoned by Trump, as seen with one of them with a shirt praising the Nazi’s perpetration of the Holocaust and specifically adopting Hitler’s obsession with blaming the Jewish people.) Chad Loder and one more author. https://archive.today/20201218023157/https://twitter.com/chadloder/status/1338985747227930624Fair use. File:Proud Boys wearing shirt with Neo-Nazi slogan 6 Million Wasn’t Enough – Dec 2020.jpgUploaded:…
Ideas for Dealing with Drone Threats to U.S. & Allied Paratroopers
As NATO’s new Secretary General lauds airborne capabilities within NATO there are questions and answers about the survivability of airborne troops in the age of anti-personnel drones and increasing swarm capabilities. The issue requires intelligent planning, defense tech innovation, operational innovation, and OODA loop work. As early as 2015 some, such as scholar Marc R.…