ANALYSIS – We have recently been seeing quite a bit of news about U.S. and Russian ‘doomsday’ planes. These are the special, hardened command and control aircraft tasked with coordinating a nuclear war from the skies by the nations’ top leadership. Both the United States and the Russian Federation have them, and with the saber-rattling coming from both Russia and North Korea, and maybe soon Iran, they have been getting a lot of press. The most recent reports noted that a planned flyover by a Russian ‘Doomsday’ plane designed to protect Vladimir Putin in the event of a nuclear attack was dropped from Russia’s May 9…
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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.
It has been six months since outspoken liberal actor Alec Baldwin fatally shot cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of his low-budget western “Rust.” As I noted earlier, while Baldwin may not be charged with manslaughter, he fired the old west revolver and as a producer, it was his movie. It was also widely reported, as I wrote about here, that basic safety precautions on the set were not being followed, even provoking a walk-out by some crew members. And Baldwin was using a young inexperienced gun armorer, usually responsible for gun safety on movie sets. On April 10, 2022, the producers,…
ANALYSIS – In the latest news on the ‘gun violence’ front, a major liberal-leaning think tank report recommends numerous solutions to the ‘gun violence’ surge plaguing our nation’s capital. And in a typically written news story, the reporter sees no irony in repeatedly using the liberal ‘gun violence’ term even when none of the solutions being proposed have anything to do with guns. (RELATED: As Gun Sales Soared, the Number of Violent Crimes Committed With Guns Plummeted) In the old days, it was simply called violence, or ‘shooting,’ if you wanted to be more specific. Now it is ‘gun violence.’ All part…
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This past weekend saw a massive Chinese naval exercise that virtually surrounded the self-governing island republic of Taiwan, officially known as the Republic of China (ROC). Communist China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) and communist state media reported on the major drill some called a “rehearsal of possible real action.”China’s Global Times (GT), a mouthpiece for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) provided the most details on the much-hyped drill when it reported that: The Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) recently held a large-scale joint exercise surrounding the island of Taiwan from both sides, a move that experts said on Monday demonstrated and…
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 Too fragile to fight: Could the US military…
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 COMPLEMENT OR REPLACE? Pentagon pitches law changes to enable…
ANALYSIS – In its latest report on ongoing threats to the U.S. and global security, the Washington, D.C.-based Center for American Defense Studies (CADS), which I lead, has just released a report on the North Korean army. The author, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel with significant experience analyzing the North’s war machine reached some interesting conclusions. In effect, Lt. Col Charles Schlom, a career Army aviator, and Subject Matter Expert (SME) on the Hermit Kingdom’s military, argues that — its nukes and missiles notwithstanding — the North Korean army is a massive (well over one million men), but poorly equipped, trained and led,…
Communist China has been effectively employing a vast fleet of low-tech, lightly armed government vessels and dual-use civilian craft and naval militias to expand and dominate large swaths of the Western Pacific. Until now, the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard could only respond to this ‘Gray Zone’ armada with small deck guns, scarce heavy torpedoes or expensive anti-ship missiles and line-of-sight laser-guided bombs. That equation has now changed as the Pentagon has shown off its latest low-tech 2,000-pound Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) – appropriately named ‘QUICKSINK,’ in an impressive live-fire demonstration in the Gulf of Mexico. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmfRi2Vl3JQ This ubiquitous bomb can be…
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