WEDNESDAY PDB – We can’t do it alone. US, Australia to hold largest-ever Talisman Sabre military drills this summer. The biennial military exercise returns to pre-pandemic scale this year with more than twice the troops than took part two years ago. B-1B Bombers fight with and against Indian air force in historic first. U.S. Air Force B-1B Lancers are taking part in the famed Cope India air combat exercise. AND HERE AT HOME – Camp Pendleton Marine base hosts Indonesian Marines for joint training exercise. Protecting free trade and supply lines takes partnerships, even when those partners are on the other side of…
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.
ANALYSIS – Joe Biden has made his radical ‘green’ climate agenda a centerpiece of his administration. He even had his Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and the rest of his security team make it a national defense priority, superseding in some ways, China, Russia and terrorism. A lot of Biden’s agenda is pushed by radical leftist activists, but the green energy industry is an increasingly wealthy and powerful lobby. And they operate hand in hand. And Biden’s ‘climate czar,’ John Kerry, is one of its biggest cheerleaders inside the administration. Still, it seems reality is now seeping in at the Pentagon as…
ANALYSIS – There is nothing worse than stumbling into a major war with a nuclear-armed superpower because your enemy’s totalitarian dictator isn’t fully ‘aware’ of all the reckless and provocative ‘gray zone’ operations being executed by the regime’s minions. Gray zone warfare often employs military, paramilitary and quasi-civilian forces, like militias, in confrontation and harassment tactics below the threshold of direct military conflict or war. And both Russia and China are masters of the art. Witness the Russian jets that recently played chicken with one of our Reaper drones over the Black Sea. But China takes the practice to a strategic level.…
TUESDAY PDB – The infiltration of Communist Chinese (CHICOM) spies and operatives in the U.S. is unprecedented, according to the FBI. NOW – US alleges secret Chinese police post in NYC, online tracking of dissidents. Two New York residents were arrested, and dozens of Chinese national police officers were criminally charged. THAT’S A LOT OF CHICOM COPS/SPIES IN NYC. MEANWHILE, CHICOM TECH IS SPYING ON ALL OF US – Hikvision: Chinese surveillance tech giant denies leaked Pentagon spy claim. It has denied it is illegally disguising its products sold to the US government to enable Chinese espionage. BUT OF COURSE, IT IS. AND JUST…
ANALYSIS – Déjà vu all over again. Just like the establishment back in the 1960s and 1970s facing a massive Soviet nuke buildup, Team Biden and his top general, Mark Milley, are simply throwing their hands up in despair. “We are probably not going to be able to do anything to stop, slow down, disrupt, interdict, or destroy the Chinese nuclear development program that they have projected out over the next 10 to 20 years,” said the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff recently at a hearing of the House Armed Services Committee. “They’re going to do that in accordance with their…
ANALYSIS – As the global threats to America skyrocket, more missions call for Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) or drones, such as the MQ-9 Reaper and the RQ-4 Global Hawk. And with that, we need more highly trained drone pilots. Lots more. I recently had the distinct honor and pleasure of attending a graduation ceremony for a small cadre of young Air Force officers beginning their new careers as military drone pilots, officially known as RPA pilots. Undergraduate RPA Pilot Training is conducted at Randolph Air Force Base, Texas. And the Air Force’s 558th Flying Training Squadron is the sole pipeline for RPA…
MONDAY PDB – ‘White, Male, Christian and Antiwar’: Marjorie Taylor Greene Defends Suspected Classified Documents Leaker. Rep. Greene (R-Ga.) defended 21-year-old Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira—who was arrested in connection with a massive leak of classified intelligence—suggesting that Team Biden was targeting him for his opposition to U.S. military support for Ukraine. In a tweet on Thursday, Greene identified Teixeira as “white, male, Christian, and antiwar” and said this makes him “an enemy to the Biden regime.” BUT MANY CONSERVATIVES DISAGREE – Lindsey Graham calls fellow Republican ‘irresponsible’ for defending Pentagon leaker. Senator Graham condemned his fellow Republican Taylor Greene as “terribly irresponsible” on Sunday,…
MONDAY PDB – The fallout from the Taiwanese president’s visit with Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy continues, as China uses any excuse to justify its belligerent path. And that path includes squeezing Taiwan militarily, using intimidation and gray zone warfare. The path also includes beefing up its already massive armed forces – the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) for the bigger fight against the U.S. CHINESE COVER STORY TO CONTROL THE VITAL WATERWAY – China warns of rocket debris in area northeast of Taiwan. China’s local maritime authorities have issued a warning for possible rocket debris in waters northeast of Taiwan, saying ships…
ANALYSIS – In information warfare, a picture (or in this case a patch) is worth a thousand words. And what an image it is. Taiwan’s defense ministry recently published a photograph of Taiwanese fighter pilots inspecting their jets as Communist Chinese (CHICOM) armed forces carried out threatening large-scale military drills nearby. So, what’s so special about the photo? It shows an unofficial patch on the Taiwanese pilot’s arm with a black bear representing Taiwan punching Winnie the Pooh in the face. The endangered Formosan black bear is seen as a symbol of Taiwanese identity. Taiwan was previously better known internationally…
ANALYSIS – While Joe Biden’s progressive Pentagon leadership team pushes back on the well-founded attacks on its woke agenda, congressional Republicans vow to eliminate this neo-Marxist cancer from our military. Team Biden insists the initiatives are simply about ‘diversifying’ the armed forces. “The purpose of those programs is ‘e pluribus unum,’ to build teamwork,” said Joint Chiefs Chairman General Mark Milley at a House Armed Services Committee hearing, quoting the Latin motto of the U.S. meaning “out of many, one.” But we all know that this is absolute nonsense. It is the opposite of America’s motto. It promotes divisions over…