Joseph M. Humire

About Joseph

Joseph M. Humire is a national security expert, analyzing Transregional Threats in the Western Hemisphere. Mr. Humire provides regular briefings on countering China, Russia, and Iran’s authoritarian influence in Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as combating the convergence of international terrorism and transnational organized crime. Mr. Humire has testified numerous times before the U.S. Congress as well as the European and Canadian Parliament and in 2023 was awarded an Order of Defense Merit Medial from the Colombian Armed Forces.

Mr. Humire currently serves as the executive director of the national security think tank—Center for a Secure Free Society (SFS)—based in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area. Prior to SFS, he served in the U.S. Marine Corps with a combat tour in Iraq and a multinational training exercise UNITAS in Latin America and the Caribbean. After leaving the military, he graduated from George Mason University with a degree in Economics and Global Affairs. Mr. Humire began building SFS’s global network of more than 100 security scholars in almost 30 countries worldwide as the Director of Institute Relations at the Atlas Economic Research Foundation. He was formerly a visiting fellow at The Heritage Foundation’s Allison Center for National Security and is a regular guest lecturer for the National Defense University and the Defense Intelligence Agency.

Mr. Humire is also a frequent national security commentator and contributor for a variety of English and Spanish language media and has a regular weekly radio segment called the #NewWorldReport on the nationally syndicated show CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor and is the host of the Border Wars Podcast available on all digital platforms. Mr. Humire has published in both languages for various newspapers and academic journals across the Americas and released his first book in 2014 titled Iran’s Strategic Penetration of Latin America, published by Lexington Books, and is working on his second book titled China’s Strategic Penetration of Latin America (forthcoming, 2025). More recently, in 2019, Mr. Humire wrote the foreword and a chapter in the latest book by Dr. Max G. Manwaring, titled Confronting the Evolving Global Security Landscape published by Praeger Security International.

Mr. Humire’s unique blend of military experience, economics education, and expertise in asymmetric warfare offers a unique perspective to U.S. foreign policy and national security grounded in an America First policy perspective and American values and leadership.