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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.
Thanks to its unrelenting launch schedule, Elon Musk’s SpaceX has launched 3,009 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit since 2018, making the eccentric billionaire’s dream of providing satellite internet access to everyone on Earth tantalizingly close. SpaceX officially crossed the 3,000 satellite mark on Tuesday when a Falcon 9 rocket successfully delivered a payload of 52 satellites to their preordained orbits 340 miles above the Earth. https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1557188868885032960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1557188868885032960%7Ctwgr%5Eebe27379ba900460519f2f67b95d93395e069663%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fgizmodo.com%2Fembed%2Finset%2Fiframe%3Fid%3Dtwitter-1557188868885032960autosize%3D1 Gizmodo’s Passant Rabie reports: Falcon 9 is the hardest working rocket in the game, with the latest launch marking the 35th Falcon 9 mission in the current year alone. The majority of these…
The war in Ukraine is nearly one-half year old. Heavy Russian losses on the outskirts of Kyiv and in the strategically vital Donbas have left Moscow short of its goals and with some 80,000 casualties. Integral to Ukraine’s success, the Ukrainian Army has defied expectations at nearly every turn, with the country’s special operations forces (SOF) utilizing a mobile defense and guerrilla tactics to inflict grievous harm on the far larger but much more cumbersome Russian colossus. Insider has more on the arsenal these brave Ukrainians have taken with them into battle: Like a lot of former Soviet bloc countries,…
The logistics behind any invasion, especially an amphibious one, are daunting. Operation Overlord required dropping off the equivalent of every man, woman and child in the cities of Green Bay, Wisconsin and Wilmington, Delaware in the first 24 hours onto the beaches of Normandy across a 100 miles stretch of the notoriously choppy English Channel. An invasion of Taiwan by communist China would involve similar distances and headaches. But Beijing might have an ace up its sleeve: The People’s Liberation Army Navy Marine Corps or PLANMC — which has doubled in size in the last five years. As 19FortyFive reports:…
The Iranian government is firing back after the Justice Department indicted an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) military operative for plotting the assassination of former National Security Advisor John Bolton. (RELATED: Iran Revolutionary Guard Member Charged for Plotting to Kill Trump National Security Advisor) The DOJ charged Shahram Poursafi, of Tehran, with plotting Bolton’s murder in retaliation for the assassination of then-Iranian Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani. The Quds Force operates under the IRGC and is responsible for “extraterritorial and clandestine military operations.” (RELATED: Why is Joe Biden Blocking an International Investigation Into Iranian Terrorists?) As European media network Euractiv…
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is facing an uproar today after someone made the decision to post a job opening on the federal government’s official employment website seeking applicants willing to “use deadly force.” The controversy comes at a politically sensitive time. On Sunday, Vice President Kamala Harris cast the tie-breaking vote after all 50 Senate Democrats voted to pass the Inflation Reduction Act. Already, some Republicans have begun calling the massive tax-and-spending bill “The IRS Expansion Act,” as it gives the IRS enough funding to hire an additional 87,000 agents. The job posting is for IRS “Criminal Investigation Special…
Even his critics begrudgingly acknowledge that former President Donald Trump masterfully set the narrative hours after FBI agents executed a search warrant at his primary residence, Mar-a-Lago. As Business Insider’s Lauren Frias and Erin Snodgrass report: “Trump, with his statement, sought to flip the script — to change the story from being ‘He’s under a cloud of suspicion and he’s in trouble with law enforcement’ to ‘He’s the victim,'” Evan Nierman, the CEO of the global crisis PR firm Red Banyan, told Insider. “And I’d say the Republican political establishment has quickly fallen into line echoing Trump’s side of things.” https://twitter.com/seanspicer/status/1556780654297337858?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1556780654297337858%7Ctwgr%5E2e06aa4248b5759b35dfa0f036817cf58a6fa489%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fstaging.americanliberty.news%2Fgovernment%2Ftrump-confirms-large-group-of-fbi-agents-raided-mar-a-lago%2Fphouck%2F2022%2F08%2F…
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. Read the summaries or dive deeper via the linked articles. Today’s PDB includes a variety of critical, global national security issues. READ TODAY’S PDB BELOW: HOMELAND SECURITY UNPRECEDENTED AND OUTRAGEOUS! – Trump says Mar-a-Lago home raided by FBI agents. The search was part of an investigation into former President Donald Trump’s handling of official records, people familiar with the…
ANALYSIS – During his tenure under President Trump, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Mark Milley angered a lot of people, including me. His comments about understanding ‘white rage’ related to the Jan. 6 riot and Critical Race Theory (CRT) indoctrination at the Pentagon were some of the dumbest things I’ve ever heard from a JCS Chairman. But sticking to the area of civil military relations, an excerpt in the New Yorker from the new book by Susan Glasser and Peter Baker, ‘Inside the War Between Trump and His Generals,’ How Mark Milley and others in the Pentagon handled the national-security…
ANALYSIS – Like the good communists that they are, the Chinese regime has lied about its four-day military drills around Taiwan, which were supposed to end on Sunday and has instead extended them. The massive military exercises appear to be dress rehearsals for a blockade and likely invasion of the democratic island nation. Standing strong against this most recent intimidation effort is the best recourse for Taiwan and the United States. And that should include pushing back. Taiwan’s defense ministry said Sunday it had detected 66 aircraft and 14 warships carrying out the exercises that are “simulating attacks on the…