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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.
Communist Chinese state media has produced photos of its latest semi-submersible transport ship for the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) they call a minesweeper. However, as analyst Mike Yeo notes on Twitter “it does not look like a minesweeper b) this the first time the Suizhou had been seen c) this makes it at least 3 such semi-submersible ships in PLAN service.” https://twitter.com/TheBaseLeg/status/1528624468083752960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1528624468083752960%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Famericandefensenews.com%2F2022%2F05%2F26%2Fchinas-latest-semi-submersible-transport-ship-with-hovercraft-made-in-russian-occupied-ukraine%2F Later the Chinese military website China Military Online appeared to correct itself when it showed the same semi-submersible heavy ship with hull number 834 now referring to it as the Yinmahu transporting a Type 958 air-cushioned landing craft. https://twitter.com/TheBaseLeg/status/1529142262701379585?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1529142262701379585%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Famericandefensenews.com%2F2022%2F05%2F26%2Fchinas-latest-semi-submersible-transport-ship-with-hovercraft-made-in-russian-occupied-ukraine%2F This vessel…
The Times of India is reporting on an alleged unprecedented leak of audio of a top-secret meeting of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) and party leaders which took place on May 14 discussing detailed plans for an attack on Taiwan. While unconfirmed by Western intelligence or other officials, the paper notes that some experts say the audio clip appears authentic. The conservative news site Hot Air is also reporting on this hot topic. This leak could be part of a reported power struggle in Beijing ahead of the 20th Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Congress later this year. Some China watchers believe Party Chairman…
Team Biden has denounced Russia’s de facto naval blockade of Odesa, Ukraine’s most important city on the Black Sea, and the exit point for Ukraine’s vast grain stores, but has shown little interest in trying to break it. However, now many are pressuring President Biden to do just that – lead a multinational naval flotilla to essentially break Russia’s blockade. Why does this matter? World food supplies. As Joshua Keating of the Grid notes, due to the world’s dependence on Ukrainian grain, and other commodities: “the battle for the Black Sea may also be the key fight when it comes to Ukraine’s struggle to keep…
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ANALYSIS – It reportedly took between 40 minutes and a full hour from the time the crazed 18-year-old gunman, Salvador Ramos, first “encountered” a school district security officer outside Robb Elementary School in the small community of Uvalde, Texas, to the time he was shot and killed by an ad hoc U.S. Border Patrol tactical team. There is mixed reporting about whether the gunman exchanged fire with the school security officer. In that excruciatingly long time, the gunman, armed with an AR-15 rifle, fired on and injured two responding local police officers, then charged into one classroom and began to kill his civilian…
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. ** For additional intel on the Russia-Ukraine war and other hot topics we can’t fit here, please also subscribe to ‘Paul’s Defense Brief’ at paulcrespo.substack.com. READ TODAY’S PDB BELOW: NATIONAL SECURITY BIDEN’S INFLATION HARMS NATIONAL DEFENSE – Defense firms push…
ANALYSIS – Despite the mounting global threats to the United States and the increasing potential for significant conflict between great powers, the Biden Pentagon can’t understand why it is facing its worst recruiting environment in decades. It is time they look inward and see how their own leftist policies at the Department of Defense (DoD) are mainly to blame. While obsessing over woke leftist causes and ‘diverse’ recruits not normally interested in military service, the Pentagon is alienating the vastly greater number of patriotic conservatives who normally fill our military ranks. (RELATED: The Left’s LGBTQ ‘War on Straight White Folks’ – From…
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. ** For additional intel on the Russia-Ukraine war and other hot topics we can’t fit here, please also subscribe to ‘Paul’s Defense Brief’ at paulcrespo.substack.com. READ TODAY’S PDB BELOW: NATIONAL SECURITY Is aiding Ukraine leaving the US military unprepared for…
ANALYSIS – Just when you thought things couldn’t get worse or more perverse, a bizarre new disease usually found in Africa is now spreading across Europe and even the U.S. And the disease’s origins are even more bizarre. Most are being linked to sexual transmission at gay fetish clubs or festivals in various European cities. According to The Telegraph: Enrique Ruiz Escudero, the region’s cabinet minister for health of the community, said on Friday that health officials had traced many of Spain’s 30 monkeypox cases to a single sauna [gay bathhouse] in the capital.Britain’s monkeypox tally now stands at 20 after…