ANALYSIS – It now turns out that the hi-tech Chinese spy balloon shot down over waters off South Carolina is only one of a vast fleet China has built and deployed worldwide. This revelation makes a further mockery of those who downplayed the impact of China’s massive intelligence-gathering (and potential EMP weapon-carrying) airship gliding high above the U.S. The Pentagon now says that the high-altitude airship was part of a major Chinese ongoing aerial surveillance effort of spy balloons, of different shapes and sizes, dubbed ‘Red Zeppelins’ by The Wall Street Journal, that has spanned five continents. (RELATED: US Shoots Down Possible Second Spy…
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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.
FOR YOUR EYES ONLY – American Liberty Defense News (ALDN) – in collaboration with respected national security expert Paul Crespo and 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. Read the summaries or dive deeper via the linked articles. PENTAGON WOKE WATCH Four weeks later, military still waiting on post-vaccine guidance. A month after the Defense Department canceled the requirement that service members are vaccinated against COVID-19, the Pentagon’s personnel and readiness office has yet to…
DEFENSE ALERT – In what must be a tremendous shock to some in the media, as well as a few ‘experts’ who dismissed or downplayed the intelligence gathering capabilities of China’s recently downed ‘spy balloon,’ turns out that the giant Chinese airship which flew uninterrupted across the entire United States, was, in fact, a ‘spy balloon.’ As I reported several times, this high-altitude, high-tech, slow-moving behemoth airship was designed and deployed primarily as an intelligence-gathering platform, mostly to vacuum up SIGINT or Signals Intelligence. SIGINT is information such as communications, including cell phones, texts and emails, as well as radar…
ANALYSIS – This small eastern city is the key to Russia achieving its stated goal of seizing the eastern Ukrainian regions of Donetsk and Luhansk by the spring. Capturing Bakhmut will allow them to cut Ukrainian supply lines in Donetsk. These are Ukrainian regions Russia purportedly annexed in September and claims as Russian territory. It would also signal a modest but much-needed Russian victory as we reach the first anniversary of the Russian invasion on February 24. TIME notes: Bakhmut “has become this rallying cry in the Russian information space,” says Karolina Hird, a Russia analyst at the Washington, D.C.-based Institute for…
FOR YOUR EYES ONLY – American Liberty News (ALN) – in collaboration with respected national security expert Paul Crespo and 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. Read the summaries or dive deeper via the linked articles. PENTAGON WOKE WATCH NO TAXPAYER-FUNDED ABORTIONS – GOP relaunches bid to end VA abortion policy. Congressional Republicans have renewed an effort to overturn the Department of Veterans Affairs’ recently implemented abortion policy. POLITICS AND DEFENSE BUDGET Future of defense…
DEFENSE ALERT – A team of international investigators (Joint Investigation Team) has concluded that there are ‘strong indications’ Russian leader Vladimir Putin personally approved the delivery of the ‘Buk’ surface-to-air-missiles (SAMs) to pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine used to down civilian flight MH17 in 2014. That missile attack killed all 298 people on board the Malaysian Airlines Boeing 777 flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur. Passengers and crew that were killed hailed from more than a dozen countries, although nearly 200 were Dutch. Russia has always denied any involvement in the tragic downing of the airliner over Eastern Ukraine and steadfastly refused…
FOR YOUR EYES ONLY – American Liberty News (ALN) – in collaboration with respected national security expert Paul Crespo and 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. Read the summaries or dive deeper via the linked articles. NATIONAL SECURITY Is Biden’s Pentagon a warfighting organization? Amid China threat, you have to wonder. In a recent memo, Gen. Michael A. Minihan, commander of the U.S. Air Force’s Air Mobility Command, said he has a “gut feeling” that…
ANALYSIS – Joe Biden’s Chinese spy balloon fiasco keeps getting worse. As I noted earlier, almost all of the Biden spin about the Chinese balloon that spent eight long days surveilling military and strategic sites across the United States was misleading or outright false. Contrary to the furious pro-Biden spin, the 200ft tall balloon with a jetliner-sized surveillance package strapped to it did pose an intelligence and military threat. (RELATED: China Tested Biden With Massive ‘Spy Balloon’ While Likely Practicing EMP Attack) It could also have been shot down much earlier without undue risk to those on the ground –…
FOR YOUR EYES ONLY – American Liberty Defense News (ALDN) – in collaboration with respected national security expert Paul Crespo and 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. Read the summaries or dive deeper via the linked articles. POLITICS Lawmakers gear up to grill Biden officials over Chinese spy balloon. Lawmakers are planning to probe the Biden administration for what they are calling a failure to protect national security as a Chinese spy balloon flew…
ANALYSIS – Much of the world watched with rapt attention as a massive, sophisticated, high-altitude Chinese surveillance airship slowly crossed the entire United States last week, and team Biden did absolutely nothing. Despite being detected days earlier over the Aleutian Islands and mainland Alaska, the ‘spy balloon,’ as it has been dubbed, was first reported publicly by the White House when it was spotted over sensitive nuclear missile sites in Montana. Most of us with military or intelligence experience quickly saw the danger and risks of allowing this huge thing unfettered access to our national airspace. The airship, reportedly 200 feet…