CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY (J. Michael Waller) - Immigration as a weapon of subversive unconventional war
Originally published in InFocus Quarterly, Spring 2026 Weaponization of immigration ranks among humanity’s most ancient...
Originally published in InFocus Quarterly, Spring 2026 Weaponization of immigration ranks among humanity’s most ancient armaments. As a modern tool of unrestricted warfare against free societies, weaponization of immigration is an invasion that most can see but few truly recognize because of its gradual nature. When citizens and officials of the targeted countries facilitate the invasion, all defenses are down. Mass deportations, forced migration, terror-driven displacement, ethnic cleansing – these violent, militarized forms of weaponized migration date more than 30 centuries ago to the Neo-Assyrian Empire against the Israelites, spanning various Persian, Greek, and Roman empires to the Byzantines, Vikings, West Europeans, and…Open