Brad Miller is a former U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel and West Point graduate who resigned as battalion commander with the 101st Airborne Division rather than enforce COVID-19 vaccine mandates. He now teaches at IPAK-EDU.
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Brad Miller is a former Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Army and graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point. He served as a battalion commander with the 101st Airborne Division before resigning his commission in 2021, just months before reaching full retirement eligibility, rather than enforce COVID-19 vaccine mandates on the soldiers under his command.
Miller's decision to resign after 19 years of military service represented a principled stand against what he viewed as unlawful orders. He has since become an advocate for military accountability, helping to organize the Declaration of Military Accountability, an open letter signed by 231 service members demanding accountability for military leaders who enforced vaccine mandates.
Following his military career, Miller became an instructor at IPAK-EDU, where he teaches "Literature as Resistance," a course examining dystopian literature as a lens for understanding authoritarianism and totalitarian manipulation techniques. His teaching draws on works by authors such as Orwell, Huxley, and others to help students recognize psychological manipulation tactics including the Hegelian dialectic and Delphi technique.
Miller has appeared on the Kim Monson Show seven times since 2023, discussing topics including military vaccine mandate policies, recognizing manipulation techniques in public discourse, the importance of moral courage, and lessons from dystopian literature about resisting authoritarianism.
June 25, 2026
Civic Engagement & Grassroots
Brad Beck on citizenship versus collectivism, Brad Miller and Pam Long preview the Duty to Disobey documentary, and candidate Bob Davis. June 25, 2026.
“Even if you are a service member by signing on the dotted line and entering military service and putting on the uniform, you do not lose your constitutionally protected rights.”
May 14, 2026
Civic Engagement & Grassroots
Jay Davidson reads the Declaration as a moral standard, Karen Gordey on Lakewood scrapping its wildfire code, and the HD51 primary field. May 14, 2026.
“There were approximately 100,000 service members that lost their careers because of the unlawful and destructive COVID shot mandate.”
May 11, 2026
Ballot Measures & TABOR
An independent gubernatorial ticket, Xcel's eminent domain push in Elbert County, and a duty to disobey unlawful military orders. May 11, 2026.
“Service members have a duty obligation to disobey unlawful orders.”
May 7, 2026
Ballot Measures & TABOR
Tina Peters' appellate update, HB26-1430, the Duty to Disobey film, Lakewood fire codes, and Colorado's National Day of Prayer. May 7, 2026.
“The military actually does a very good job of teaching even its most junior service members that they have a duty to disobey unlawful orders.”
September 30, 2025
Civic Engagement & Grassroots
Guest host Jill Vecchio explores child protection initiatives with Kevin Lundberg and military resistance with Brad Miller on September 30, 2025.
“However, I like to say that I left the military service with my integrity intact and my oath to the Constitution unbroken.”
“What the Pentagon does not want the public focused on is the much larger number of about 100, 000service members who left the service altogether.”
July 1, 2025
Civic Engagement & Grassroots
Judge Phil Ginn explains why religious freedom is first in the Bill of Rights. Allen Guelzo examines Gettysburg. July 1, 2025.
“Whenever you feel like legitimate debate is not being held, you have to ask yourself if you believe that your opinions are being manipulated or if you believe that your thoughts are being shaped in a previously contrived direction.”
November 29, 2024
Civic Engagement & Grassroots
“Whenever you feel like legitimate debate is not being held, you have to ask yourself if you believe that your opinions are being manipulated or if you believe that your thoughts are being shaped in a previously contrived direction.”
November 26, 2024
Constitution & Rule of Law
Doug Groothuis on critical race theory, Allen Guelzo on Civil War lessons, and Brad Miller on manipulation tactics. November 26, 2024.
“What that means is important for us to do is realize when our mode of thinking, and therefore our actions, is being constrained to a very narrow set of viewpoints or a very narrow set of acceptable actions.”
July 2, 2024
Civic Engagement & Grassroots
Dennis Busch and Allen Guelzo explore the Battle of Gettysburg, the Civil War, and Lincoln's legacy on July 2, 2024.
“When you wake up now, don't fall back asleep and start making other connections, because you've got to ask yourself, the government that is powerful enough to foist COVID and the reaction to COVID upon us, which very much followed the problem-reaction-solution model, they are powerful. This is not a one-and-done thing.”
January 22, 2024
Civic Engagement & Grassroots
Brad Miller on military accountability for COVID mandates; Lori Gimelshteyn and Robin Paterson expose school database pornography. January 22, 2024.
“I will tell you that if there are people out there who want to destroy the United States, they're going to have to destroy the military to do it. Now, one reason is just because of the might and the power of the military, but there's something far more sinister at play as well, and that is the cultural ethos of America, to some degree, has found itself most valiantly embodied in the military.”
November 20, 2023
Constitution & Rule of Law
Historian Allen Guelzo explains the significance of Gettysburg, while Brad Miller exposes the Hegelian dialectic and Delphi technique. November 20, 2023.
“The Hegelian dialectic can be used as a control mechanism when you have powerful networks that control both sides of an oppositional construct in which the people feel like they must identify with one side against the other.”
“When you wake up now, don't fall back asleep and start making other connections because you got to ask yourself, the government that is powerful enough to foist COVID and the reaction to COVID upon us, which very much followed the problem reaction solution model, they are power.”
September 13, 2023
Constitution & Rule of Law
James Lyons-Weiler on vaccine safety research, Trent Loos on co2 pipeline controversy, Brad Miller on literature as resistance cours. September 13, 2023.
“Our true leaders are not those who do the right thing when doing the right thing is easy. It's those who do the right thing when it's hard. It's those people who are uncommon amongst uncommon people, who can really stick to their principles, when sticking to their principles is hard and when they might be either part of a small group or perhaps even the only one that they know that does so.”
August 9, 2023
Culture, Community & Civil Society
Lyons-Weiler on euthanasia ethics, Brad Miller's military vaccine mandate stand, and Trent Loos on Tyson closures and ESG. August 9, 2023.
“If you don't understand just how bad things are or can get, then it's not optimism, it's just naivete.”
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