ALERT – Russia seems to be fracturing into a type of warlord state, with the national army losing its standing amidst all the infighting. Or is this just part of a bigger Kremlin strategy to manage potential rivals? The increasingly outspoken founder of the private military Wagner Group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, has apparently made himself a new enemy as he continues to loudly vent his anger with the country’s flagging Ukraine war effort. The Chechens, who are scheduled to replace Wagner in the embattled city of Bakhmut in the Donbas region, aren’t happy with Prigozhin’s constant whining or his disparaging of Chechen troops.…
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.
THURSDAY PDB – The current Commandant General David H. Berger has radically transformed the image and the mission of the Marine Corps. The primary focus now is on missile units intended to sink Chinese warships. To fund those units, Berger has radically reduced the Marine Corps’ amphibious and expeditionary capability. Marines are now less capable of fighting as a combined arms force. The Corps cannot seize a city from an entrenched enemy, as it did in Fallujah in 2004. The Commandant concocted his concept in secret, not consulting the retired four-star community that, appalled by his extensive cuts, has united in…
ANALYSIS – A beluga whale has reappeared off the coast of Sweden four years after…
ANALYSIS – Like other countries under international sanctions (Iran) or those simply trying to hide their covert programs (China), North Korea plays the dual-use technology game – developing military technology masquerading as civilian. In this case, it is a ballistic missile pretending to be a civilian satellite launcher. Pyongyang notified Tokyo of plans to launch a space satellite between this Wednesday and June 11. And Japan isn’t happy. North Korea is prohibited by United Nations Security Council resolutions from conducting ballistic missile launches but claims these resolutions don’t apply to civilian space programs. Hence it is calling this upcoming launch a commercial satellite…
WEDNESDAY PDB – Kyiv is seeking to rattle the Kremlin ahead of its long-planned offensive. First came drone strikes on the Kremlin’s dome of the Senate and on an oil terminal in Russia’s Krasnodar region on May 3. Then, late last week, Ukraine launched a marine drone attack on a Russian spy ship in the Black Sea. Yesterday morning, as many as two dozen drones attacked Moscow. And today, a drone struck the Afipsky oil refinery in Russia’s Krasnodar region, causing a fire. Drones damage Moscow buildings in pre-dawn attack blamed on Ukraine. Russian air defenses stopped eight drones converging on…
ANALYSIS – Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of the notorious Russian paramilitary outfit known as the Wagner Group has been in the news a lot lately. Often, he brags about his group’s battlefield exploits in Ukraine, but more recently, it’s due to his harsh criticisms of the Russian oligarchy and military establishment. He has been openly derisive and insulting toward the Kremlin leaders and the flagging war effort. This is unheard of in Vladimir Putin’s Russia where critics often end up falling from high windows or die of suicides caused by multiple gunshots. The Wagner Group has been called Putin’s private army…
ANALYSIS – Despite the tons of dirt swirling around Hunter Biden and the rest of the Biden family, Joe Biden has managed to remain mostly unsullied. This is of course greatly due to the media ignoring, deflecting or actively covering up any links to the family’s shady deals. (RELATED: Senators Move To Block Vast Censorship Apparatus) But things are heating up as Jim Biden, the president’s brother appears to have been acting as the ‘cut out’ between Hunter and his father. And now there is evidence of that. Where? On Hunter’s laptop. Meanwhile, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is threatening to hold…
TUESDAY PDB – From Civil War to mattress sales, Memorial Day full of contradiction. Memorial Day is supposed to be about mourning the nation’s fallen service members, but it’s come to anchor the unofficial start of summer and a long weekend of discounts on anything from mattresses to lawnmowers. Sharing pride in their service, pain over their loss. On this upcoming Memorial Day, we unite to honor the courageous men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice in service to our nation. Memorial Day is for those we’ve lost on the battlefield and at home. In July 2015, on a typical Sunday…
ANALYSIS – It seems everything is related. First, we have the Los Angeles Dodgers inviting, disinviting and then re-inviting the dr*g-queen, anti-Christian h*te group ‘Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence’ (SPI) – to be honored at their June opening game. The Dodgers and Major League Baseball (MLB) caved to the intense pressure to re-invite them by far-left Democrat groups. Second, we have Sam Brinton, a cr*ss-dressing, self-identified nonb*nary man with an open b*ndage ‘pup play’ f*tish, who I have also written about here, here, and here, due to his numerous arrests for airport luggage and designer women’s clothes theft. Brinton served as Joe Biden’s Deputy assistant secretary of the Office of…
SPECIAL MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND PDB – Biden picks CQ Brown to be Joint Chiefs chairman. Air Force Gen. CQ Brown will replace Gen. Mark Milley as the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. CAN HE BE WORSE THAN MILLEY? – YES HE CAN. IF RACE WILL BE THE FOCUS OF HIS TENURE – HE DESERVES TO BE CHALLENGED – CQ Brown’s confirmation hearing will get nasty. The right hated the “woke” Gen. Milley [FOR GOOD REASON]. Wait ’til they meet a general who has fought racism for years. Brown’s video during the violent Black Lives Matter (BLM) riots has some…