Author: Paul Crespo

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 national security issues. READ TODAY’S EXTENDED ‘RUSSIA THREAT’ PDB BELOW: China Threat Dual-carrier drills bring thousands of US sailors and Marines together in South China Sea. The U.S. Navy began drills in the South China Sea over the weekend that brought together two aircraft carriers, numerous warships and thousands of…

Even as he increasingly threatens an invasion of Ukraine, Russian leader Vladimir Putin is stretching his military’s presence into all sorts of new places. Most recently his forces have been seen operating and exercising in the Arctic, near Oman in the Indian Ocean, and around Japan and Hawaii. (RELATED: Russia Announces War Games With China and Iran That Will ‘Encircle’ Europe) Now Russia is planning to hold live-fire naval drills in early February 150 miles off Ireland’s Cork coast. While that area is in international waters, it is well within Ireland’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). Russian ambassador to Ireland, Yuri Filatov, said the drill would…

After the U.S. government urged its athletes heading to Beijing for the upcoming Olympics to use disposable ‘burner’ phones and laptops to avoid Chinese Communist hacking, a security expert warns about China’s ‘MY 2022’ smartphone app that Beijing demands international and local attendees use to come to the Games. According to the Epoch Times (ET), the app’s vulnerabilities were recently exposed by University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab, which described in its analysis that the app has a “devastating” security flaw. The ‘MY 2022’ app’s developer, Beijing Financial Holdings Group Co., Ltd, shown on the Apple App Store download page, is closely tied to…

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 national security issues. READ TODAY’S EXTENDED ‘RUSSIA THREAT’ PDB BELOW: Russia Threat – Ukraine Up to 8,500 U.S. troops on heightened alert in case of Russian move on Ukraine. Thousands of U.S. troops could be called on to deploy in support of NATO’s Response Force. On the brink of war…

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 national security issues. READ TODAY’S EXTENDED ‘RUSSIA THREAT’ PDB BELOW: China Threat US carriers train in South China Sea as Taiwan reports further Chinese incursion. Two U.S. aircraft carrier groups have entered the disputed South China Sea for training, the Department of Defense said on Monday as Taiwan reported…

NEW AXIS OF EVIL? Moscow’s Ministry of Defense announced on Thursday that Russian leader Vladimir Putin plans to hold naval drills in the Atlantic, Arctic, Mediterranean and the Pacific oceans this month and next, alongside China and Iran. These exercises, including those on land in Belarus, will essentially encircle Europe at the time when Russia is also amassing 100,000 troops on Ukraine’s borders for a potential invasion. NDTV reported that: The war games will involve “more than 140 warships and support vessels, more than 60 aircraft, 1,000 pieces of military equipment, and about 10,000 servicemen,” the defence ministry said in a statement carried…

The arrest last week of an Egyptian-American police officer in New York for spying is highlighting the ‘significant’ national security threat of foreign intelligence services recruiting state and local American cops. This police officer was used to spy on Egyptian exiles in New York opposed to President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s repressive regime in Cairo. But he is far from the only one; Egypt is far from the only regime to do so – and tracking dissidents isn’t all these U.S. cops are tasked with doing by foreign spies. According to former FBI counterintelligence chief Frank Figliuzzi and other former national security officials, reports…

Using a covert program begun after Russia’s 2014 invasion and annexation of the Crimea and buffed up further by President Trump, the CIA is apparently training Ukrainian paramilitary forces to fight an insurgency against a Russian invasion force. SEE ALSO: White House Accuses Russia of Sending Saboteurs Into Ukraine to Justify Invasion The CIA’s Ground Branch (now officially known as Ground Department), reports Yahoo News, is running a multi-week, U.S.-based program for these irregular Ukrainian forces that includes firearms training, camouflage techniques, land navigation, tactics like “cover and move,” intelligence and other paramilitary techniques, according to former officials. If the Russians launch a…

America’s reliance on cobalt was cemented this year after President Biden signed an executive order that established his administration’s goal to have electric and other zero-emissions vehicles make up half of new cars and trucks sold in the U.S. by 2030. But what does this have to do with Hunter Biden? As the Daily Signal notes: “Cobalt is one of the most important components of electric car batteries, solar panels, and other conduits for renewable energy.” These are critical for Joe Biden’s new clean energy mandate. But in 2016, when his father was vice president under Barack Obama, Hunter Biden was…

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 national security issues. READ TODAY’S EXTENDED ‘UKRAINE-RUSSIA THREAT’ PDB BELOW: National Security COUNTERPOINT – NATO should shut the door, but not because Russia said so. For the U.S., however, it’s not Russia’s geopolitical sensitivities that matter most—it’s whether a given policy serves core U.S. security interests. And as far as…