FOR YOUR EYES ONLY – American Liberty News (ALN) – in collaboration with the Center for American Defense Studies (CADS) – provides our readers the PDB: Not the President’s Daily Brief, but almost as good – PAUL’S DAILY BRIEFING. Get Your Best Daily Defense and Foreign Affairs Intelligence Here in One Brief. Today’s RUSSIA WAR PDB focuses on the unprovoked massive Russian invasion of Ukraine. NON-RUSSIA THREAT BRIEF Provided in SEPARATE PDB READ TODAY’S RUSSIA WAR PDB BELOW: RUSSIAN INVASION PUTIN INVADES UKRAINE – ‘We are facing war and horror’: Ukraine vows to fight on as Russia attacks. Months of uncertainty over whether Russian President Vladimir Putin would send his…
Author: Paul Crespo
Paul Crespo
Paul Crespo is the Managing Editor of American Liberty Defense News. As a Marine Corps officer, he led Marines, served aboard ships in the Pacific and jumped from helicopters and airplanes. He was also a military attaché with the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) at U.S. embassies worldwide. He later ran for office, taught political science, wrote for a major newspaper and had his own radio show. Paul has also been a defense contractor with the Pentagon. He brings decades of experience and insight to the issues that most threaten our American liberty — at home and from abroad.
Early Thursday morning Russian leader Vladimir Putin finally invaded Ukraine, launching the largest state vs state attack in Europe since World War Two. The land, sea and air assault by Russian forces included attacks across Ukraine’s borders from Russia and Belarus and amphibious landings on its coast from the Black and Azov seas, as well as missile strikes in Odessa. As Reuters noted, “In an early-morning declaration of war, Putin said he had ordered ‘a special military operation’ to protect people, including Russian citizens, subjected to ‘genocide’ in Ukraine – an accusation the West calls baseless propaganda.” According to Reuters, an adviser to the…
FOR YOUR EYES ONLY – American Liberty News (ALN) – in collaboration with the Center for American Defense Studies (CADS) – provides our readers the PDB: Not the President’s Daily Brief, but almost as good – PAUL’S DAILY BRIEFING. Get Your Best Daily Defense and Foreign Affairs Intelligence Here in One Brief. Today’s PDB includes a variety of critical, global national security issues. RUSSIA THREAT BRIEF in SEPARATE PDB READ TODAY’S PDB BELOW: NATIONAL SECURITY BLAMING GLOBAL FREEDOM MOVEMENT ON US ‘DISINFORMATION? SERIOUSLY? – New Zealand protest, an echo of Canada’s, digs in and turns ugly. An occupation in the capital demonstrates the dangerous influence that American disinformation…
FOR YOUR EYES ONLY – American Liberty News (ALN) – in collaboration with the Center for American Defense Studies (CADS) – provides our readers the PDB: Not the President’s Daily Brief, but almost as good – PAUL’S DAILY BRIEFING. Get Your Best Daily Defense and Foreign Affairs Intelligence Here in One Brief. This RUSSIA THREAT PDB focuses on all aspects of the Russia Threat, especially related to Ukraine crisis. NON-RUSSIA THREAT BRIEF Provided in SEPARATE PDB READ TODAY’S RUSSIA THREAT PDB BELOW: US attack helos, F-35s and infantry heading to Baltics amid Russia Ukraine invasion. Announcement came after President Joe Biden detailed new economic sanctions on Russia in reaction…
While President Biden moves along with his pro-forma comments and leftist talking points on guns (and everything else), Democrat lawmakers are exasperating the activists by showing little interest ahead of the 2022 midterm elections. (RELATED: Biden’s Rhetoric on Guns is Far From ‘Reasonable’) Democrats expect to lose seats massively in the House and may also lose their one VP-vote majority in the Senate as well. Last month marked the fourth anniversary of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Biden used the anniversary to call on Congress to pass his moribund gun-control legislation in limbo in the Senate for a year.…
While Russia keeps saying it is not planning to invade Ukraine, it now has amassed upwards of 190,000 troops on almost two-thirds of Ukraine’s borders. As ALN has previously reported, Moscow has a range of options — should it decide to fully strike. And even more options for limited incursions. Three of the most likely scenarios include an attack on the capital Kyiv to carry out regime change in Ukraine using the 30,000 Russian troops currently in Belarus. This offensive could be combined with a separate attack from pro-Russian rebel-controlled Donbas region in the East. This scenario could include Russian troops…
FOR YOUR EYES ONLY – American Liberty News (ALN) – in collaboration with the Center for American Defense Studies (CADS) – provides our readers the PDB: Not the President’s Daily Brief, but almost as good – PAUL’S DAILY BRIEFING. Get Your Best Daily Defense and Foreign Affairs Intelligence Here in One Brief. Today’s PDB includes a variety of critical, global national security issues. NON-RUSSIA THREAT BRIEF Provided in SEPARATE PDB READ TODAY’S PDB BELOW: Russia Threat WAR THIS WEEK? Institute for the Study of War – UKRAINE CONFLICT UPDATE 3 – Russia will likely attack Ukraine the week of February 21, 2022. The Kremlin has deployed sufficient military forces and set informational conditions…
FOR YOUR EYES ONLY – American Liberty News (ALN) – in collaboration with the Center for American Defense Studies (CADS) – provides our readers the PDB: Not the President’s Daily Brief, but almost as good – PAUL’S DAILY BRIEFING. Get Your Best Daily Defense and Foreign Affairs Intelligence Here in One Brief. This PDB focuses on the CHINA THREAT RUSSIA THREAT BRIEF Provided in SEPARATE PDB READ TODAY’S PDB BELOW: China Threat US Army Pacific Commander: Next war will be violent, very human, unpredictable and long. Despite a strong focus on air and naval power, the commander of the United States Army in the Pacific says land forces will play a…
A senior U.S. government official has confirmed that on Monday, soon after declaring the territories ‘independent,’ Russian leader Vladimir Putin has deployed ‘peacekeeping’ troops to the two areas of eastern Ukraine controlled since 2014 by pro-Russian separatists. The two regions, the self-declared Luhansk People’s Republic (LPR) and Donestk People ‘s Republic (DPR), broke from Ukraine with the help of Russia’s ‘little green men’ irregular special forces in 2014 as Putin invaded the strategic peninsula of Crimea in southern Ukraine during the Obama-Biden administration. Video has been shared on social media of Russian troops being bussed into the Donbas. https://twitter.com/Jake_Hanrahan/status/1495877460944203777?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1495877460944203777%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Famericandefensenews.com%2F2022%2F02%2F22%2Finvasion-begins-after-recognizing-rebel-controlled-areas-as-independent-putin-sends-in-russian-troops%2F Military Times (MT) reported: “Just…
There are 18,000-plus Western and UN troops countering Islamist jihadist insurgents in the North-West African Sahel region. But on Thursday, February 17, President Macron confirmed that France would begin its military withdrawal from Mali, the current headquarters for these forces, while rejecting that its counterterror operation had failed. “The heart of this military operation will no longer be in Mali but in Niger,” Macron told a news conference. But when asked if France’s Operation Barkhane had failed, he replied: “I completely reject this term.” The French pullout follows Mali’s military junta demanding that Danish special operation forces (SOF) soldiers from the…