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Table of Contents
About the Book
The Hemisphere Comes First
Fortress Americas: A New Monroe Doctrine argues that America’s security begins at home—not in Europe, the Middle East, or Asia. The Western Hemisphere, stretching from the Arctic through the Amazon and down to Antarctica, has become the decisive strategic theater as China, Russia, Iran, transnational cartels, and terrorist networks expand their influence throughout the Americas.
The unipolar era has ended. A tripolar world, loosely divided among the United States, China, and Russia, is emerging, and spheres of influence are returning. Russia is consolidating its regional control. China is constructing its Indo-Pacific sphere. The United States must secure its own hemisphere before it can responsibly project power abroad.
The book proposes a new strategy of Western Hemispheric Defense that integrates military power, industrial capacity, energy dominance, border security, maritime control, and regional partnerships into a single defensive architecture. Without that strategic depth, the United States risks gradual encirclement by its rivals. With it, America can restore its national power, protect the homeland, and compete successfully in the coming era of great-power competition.
To remain a global power, the United States must build a fortress in the Western Hemisphere.
Fortress Americas: A New Monroe Doctrine argues that America’s security begins at home—not in Europe, the Middle East, or Asia. The Western Hemisphere, stretching from the Arctic through the Amazon and down to Antarctica, has become the decisive strategic theater as China, Russia, Iran, transnational cartels, and terrorist networks expand their influence throughout the Americas.
The unipolar era has ended. A tripolar world, loosely divided among the United States, China, and Russia, is emerging, and spheres of influence are returning. Russia is consolidating its regional control. China is constructing its Indo-Pacific sphere. The United States must secure its own hemisphere before it can responsibly project power abroad.
The book proposes a new strategy of Western Hemispheric Defense that integrates military power, industrial capacity, energy dominance, border security, maritime control, and regional partnerships into a single defensive architecture. Without that strategic depth, the United States risks gradual encirclement by its rivals. With it, America can restore its national power, protect the homeland, and compete successfully in the coming era of great-power competition.
To remain a global power, the United States must build a fortress in the Western Hemisphere.
Product Details
- Publisher: Tucker Carlson Books (December 8, 2026)
- Length: 312 pages
- ISBN13: 9781683585701
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“American foreign policy of the past several decades has clearly not served the American people. Our leaders have insisted we must prioritize fighting prolonged wars to build democracies in the Middle East and providing security for Europe before we can secure our borders and our hemisphere. Despite President Trump’s campaign promise to change this paradigm, he was pulled back into maintaining this destructive status quo. In Fortress Americas: A New Monroe Doctrine, Brandon Weichert presents a pragmatic strategy to secure our nation and enact a defense and foreign policy that actually serves the American people. Weichert pulls no punches when identifying how our nation’s endless wars and deindustrialization hurt the patriotic working men and women of our nation and clearly articulates how we can honor their sacrifices by focusing on defending and securing our homeland. Fortress Americas is the blueprint for how we get our foreign policy focused on what truly matters—serving the American people.”
—Joe Kent, former director of the National Counterterrorism Center, retired Green Beret, and former CIA paramilitary officer
“Weichert has penned what will likely become the seminal text on how Washington—an ‘outward-looking commercial republic’—operates. Fortress Americas is a clear and compelling tour de force, masterfully laying out exactly what a comprehensive hemispheric defense strategy looks like.”
—Dr. Elizabeth Buchanan, senior fellow, Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)
“In Fortress Americas, Brandon J. Weichert challenges decades of conventional wisdom about American grand strategy. Drawing on the insights of history's great geopolitical thinkers, Weichert offers a compelling new framework for understanding America's place in an increasingly dangerous world. From the Arctic to the Panama Canal and beyond, he makes the case that America's security begins in its own hemisphere. Provocative, timely, and intellectually ambitious, Fortress Americas deserves serious attention from anyone concerned about the future of American power.”
—Harry J. Kazianis, editor in chief of 19FortyFive
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