Here's the original article from Spring, 2026 issue of InFocus.
— J Michael Waller (@JMichaelWaller) July 24, 2026
Dear Shoshaha Bryen, who just passed away, asked me to write it. Said she was horrified when she read it. https://t.co/09vHv8eGHF
Waller explains that "Dear Shoshaha Bryen, who just passed away, asked me to write it. Said she was horrified when she read it." Shoshaha Bryen, 1953-2026.
What has escaped the public eye is the subversive dimension of weaponized migration: The purposeful mass movement of people to penetrate, disrupt, divide, burden, and destroy the target destination of settlement.
Small regimes weaponize migration to cleanse their own domains of dissidents, criminals, parasites, and the ill, aged, or otherwise non-productive. The weaponization part is not the purgative effects, but the focused projection of economic and social burdens upon a target.
Governments and tribes of some of the most primitive countries weaponize emigration to prosperous lands with the intent to milk the host country’s generosity through demands, extortion, and criminal enterprises to send cash back home.
More efficient weaponization exploits or even orchestrates migration to infiltrate intelligence operatives, political agitators, street gangs, terrorists, and saboteurs into the target’s body politic for the purpose of destroying it from within.
This type of migration, as Nathan D. Steger wrote in a 2016 Naval Postgraduate School study ["The Weaponization of Migration: Examining Migration as a 21st Century Tool of Political Warfare"], “can range from overt and hostile in support of military operations to more clandestine or passive undertakings, such as espionage” or influencing political and social demographics. “Due to lengthy timeframes required to plan and execute fifth-column operations, people often dismiss evidence as imaginings of the conspiracy-minded who are quick to voice suspicions on politically sensitive and polarizing topics such as racism or immigration.”
VANGUARD COLONIALISM
Fifth-column immigrants settle abroad to subvert the societies that welcome them, in support of a larger military or terrorist strategy. Their dual purposes are to feed off their hosts in their new countries while acting as ideological, political, and cultural vanguards for a foreign actor. Those vanguard forces impose discipline to dominate the immigrant community. They operate within the system to establish colonies and build the material, political, and legal support structures for their foreign subversive strategy.
The Communists in Bolshevik and Stalinist times called their migrating operatives the “vanguard of the proletariat.” They would dispatch a “detachment of the vanguard” abroad to organize workers’ movements nationally, as part of an international “struggle."
