Vandenberg Coalition
The Vandenberg Coalition is a militarist lobby group of deep state operatives complaining about "persistently inadequate defense budgets".[1]
Own words
"The Coalition ensures that members of Congress, candidates for government office, the American people, and the press have a common, credible and fact-based source of information on defense and foreign policy, clear resources to answer their questions on upcoming priorities, and a network of future leaders committed to American leadership in the world."[2]
Name
The group is named after Senator Arthur Vandenberg of Michigan.[2] In the late 1930s, British intelligence used a honeytrap to blackmail Vandenberg to change his views from isolationism into an "internationalist" supporting cheap weapons to the UK and US entry into the world war.[3] In 1947 Vandenberg reportedly advised President Truman to "scare the hell out the American people" to vastly increase armaments spending, on the grounds that the U.S. public expected to live at peace and lacked the requisite warlike ambition.[4]
Wars
The coalition supports US wars everywhere, and then some[5].
In 2025 the coalition co-rote The Day After A Plan for Gaza, as a joint project with Jewish Institute for National Security of America, recommending a trust should be created and supported by "a handful of states that accept Israel’s role in the region" and should " focus on a long-term program for deradicalizing the media, schools, and mosques" including "efforts to limit the influence of foreign owned media that consistently distort reporting".[6][7]
Funding
The Vandenberg Coalition is funded by money from individuals, foundations, and businesses. The Vandenberg Coalition does not disclose its donors, but according to Influencewatch tax filings confirm donations from the National Philanthropic Trust ($665,000 in 2021),[8] the Weiser Family Foundation ($100,000 in 2021),[9] and the George E. Seay III Foundation ($50,000 in 2022).[10]
People
Board as of December 2025. Elliott Abrams was the chair of the board [11]
Known members
26 of the 130 of the members already have pages here:
| Member | Description |
|---|---|
| Elliott Abrams | A deep politician heavily involved in the Iran-Contra affair, given a pardon by George H. W. Bush |
| Kelley Currie | US lawyer politician |
| Paula Dobriansky | Spookily connected US politician |
| Eric Edelman | US diplomat/politician whom Sibel Edmonds named as a corrupt individual of interest. |
| Doug Fears | United States Coast Guard officer working on drug interdiction. |
| Peter Feaver | US academic |
| Richard Fontaine | Heavy MSC habit |
| Aaron Friedberg | US political scientist |
| Colleen Graffy | US spook and propagandist |
| Mark Green | |
| Michael J. Green | Spooky academic |
| Jamieson Greer | Attended his first Bilderberg in 2026 |
| John Hannah | Neocon senior aide on "national security" to Dick Cheney |
| Frederick Kagan | US academic, PNAC |
| Keith Krach | US banker, businessman |
| David Kramer | US academic with multiple deep state connections. Conduit for giving the Steele Dossier to Buzzfeed. |
| Jon Kyl | US lawyer whom Sibel Edmonds named as one of her "Dirty Dozen" |
| Scooter Libby | US deep state actor. Indicted on five counts, convicted on four, 30 months in prison |
| Matthew Pottinger | National security Bilderberg and coronavirus task force |
| Daniel Runde | CSIS Policy Advisor with heavy Brussels Forum and HISF habits |
| Nathan Sales | US "terror expert" |
| Randy Scheunemann | US neocon foreign policy advisor to presidential candidate John McCain. very heavy BF habit |
| David Shedd | Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency during the war in Syria. In 2022 co-wrote an article outlying a strategy for "Waging Psychological War Against Russia." |
| William Steiger | Chief of Staff at USAID from 2017 to 2021. |
| John Sullivan | US lawyer diplomat |
| Juan Zarate | Worked on expanding the use of Treasury powers to advance national security interests. U.S. representative to get control over the Vatican's finances. |
References
- ↑ https://vandenbergcoalition.org/how-to-win-2/
- ↑ a b https://vandenbergcoalition.org/about-us/
- ↑ https://spartacus-educational.com/USAvandenbergA.htm
- ↑ https://www.bunkhistory.org/resources/enough-toxic-militarism
- ↑ https://vandenbergcoalition.org/reports-op-eds/
- ↑ https://vandenbergcoalition.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/The-Day-After-A-Plan-for-Gaza-Action-Plan.pdf
- ↑ https://vandenbergcoalition.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Gaza-Day-After-Report.pdf
- ↑ National Philanthropic Trust, Return of Organization Exempt from Income Tax (Form 990), 2021, Schedule I, Part II.
- ↑ Weiser Family Foundation, Return of Private Foundation (Form 990-PF), 2021, Part XV, Line 3.
- ↑ George E. Seay III Foundation, Return of Private Foundation (Form 990-PF), 2022, Part XV, Line 3.
- ↑ https://vandenbergcoalition.org/advisory-board/
