ANALYSIS – Please just stop! – Even as the U.S. armed services toned down their politically driven, identity and sexual politics pandering for Pride Month this year, it seems the commanding general of U.S. Army Special Operations Command (also known as ARSOC) didn’t get the memo. Please note that ARSOC (or USASOC) includes some of our finest warriors, including the 75th Ranger Regiment, Army Special Forces (Green Berets) and 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta (or Delta Force – the Army’s equivalent of the Navy SEALs). In what I consider an obscene post across multiple social media accounts, including Twitter, Instagram and Facebook, the…
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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.
ANALYSIS – While the exact timing of the coming uprising was unclear, in mid-June American intelligence agencies began receiving information that Yevgeniy Prigozhin, the increasingly mercurial founder of the Wagner mercenary military group, was planning an armed revolt against the Russian defense establishment. According to a U.S. official, the intelligence community (IC) quickly warned the White House and Team Biden about the upcoming insurrection and possible loss of Russian nuclear weapons before it occurred. A Ukrainian official told The Washington Post that he was unaware of Washington sharing that intelligence with Kyiv. The same U.S. official said that Vladimir Putin was “definitely”…
MONDAY PDB – Putin finally learns the lesson all tyrants learn. Russian leader Vladimir Putin is learning what so many tyrants have learned before him: When you unleash the dogs of war, they can come back to bite you. Russian troops withdraw from Moscow after mercenary revolt ends. The extraordinary challenge to Putin’s two-decade hold on power could have long-term consequences for his rule and his war in Ukraine. SMELLS FISHY – Russia says rebel Wagner chief will move to Belarus, all pardoned. The charges against Yevgeny Prigozhin for mounting an armed rebellion will be dropped and the troops who joined him also…
ANALYSIS – A ‘game-changer’ or business as usual? This began well before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last year. According to newly released information, the Russians have been more active in the assassination game on U.S. soil than many previously thought. Russian clandestine operations overseas are usually run by the SVR, which succeeded the KGB, or the GRU, Russia’s military intelligence agency. But the FSB, Russia’s internal security service is also known to conduct ops outside Russia. While the Russian intelligence and security services were known to pursue and assassinate double agents or critics of the regime, elsewhere, including Western capitals…
ANALYSIS – The Russians did it. Or so it now appears. While Tucker Carlson made a huge splash (pun intended) when he publicly accused Ukraine of blowing up its own Kakhovka dam in Russian-occupied territory earlier this month, a mound of evidence increasingly suggests that Russia blew up the critical dam. While critical of Carlson’s often pro-Russian talking points, I was initially open to Carlson’s claims about the dam, and wrote about it here. I noted that while it was far better to wait and see, the fact that recent reports appear to suggest that Ukrainian covert operatives were behind the…
FRIDAY PDB – Implicit in all these defense deals is the rapidly growing need to counter Chinese aggression. US, India cement partnership with slew of new defense deals. The new deals, totaling billions, span a number of key industries — including semiconductors, aerospace and artificial intelligence. US, India establish INDUS-X to strengthen defense tech collaboration. U.S. and Indian defense officials announced the creation of a joint technology accelerator aimed at increasing collaboration and interoperability between the two nations. MEANWHILE, INDIA’S OTHER ADVERSARY – Pakistan unveils increased defense budget, IMF decries spending plan. The Pakistani government has requested a nearly 16% increase…
ALERT – Despite the wishful thinking and dramatic international rescue effort, the Titanic appears to have now added five new victims to its staggering 111-year-old death toll. The commercial deep-sea tourist submersible Titan carrying five people on a voyage to the Titanic wreck suffered a “catastrophic implosion” 13,000 feet below the surface of the ocean that killed everyone aboard, U.S. Coast Guard officials say. A remotely operated vehicle found parts of the sub Thursday about 1,600 feet from the bow of the shipwreck, officials added. (RELATED: Robot Subs Scouring Ocean Floor Find Missing Titanic Sub) Debris from the Titan submersible, which…
THURSDAY PDB – The key to defending Ukraine against Russian aggression now, and in the future lies in the West’s ability to keep supporting the beleaguered country. And key to that support is Ukraine showing that the billions of dollars in military aid are actually being put to effective use. Battling Russia, Ukrainian leaders also fight high expectations. Seeking to bolster morale and Western support, President Volodymyr Zelensky said the slow progress of Ukraine’s counteroffensive was to be expected. He is probably right. Finding the weak points in Russia’s strong defenses will take time, but once identified expect Ukrainian armored forces,…
At least no one appears to have suffered… It had been a race against time as at least two different robotic subs deployed Thursday to scour the sea floor for the missing Titanic tourist submersible, known as Titan. Both Canada and France sent their own robot subs to the search. The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) said that the Canadian ship Horizon Arctic had deployed a Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) which “reached the sea floor and began its search for the missing sub.” The sub subsequently discovered a “debris field” near the Titanic wreckage site where the Titan went missing. It was not…
ANALYSIS- Even as Joe Biden, via his Secretary of State Antony Blinken, grovels at the feet of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leaders in Beijing, yet another senior American military leader warns we are heading for war in the Pacific. And he is telling his Marines in Hawaii to start gearing up for combat. The last general who publicly warned of an upcoming war with China was Mike Minihan, commander of the Air Force’s worldwide Air Mobility Command. He said in January of this year: “I hope I am wrong. My gut tells me we will fight in 2025.” And as…