PAUL’S DEFENSE BRIEF (PDB) – President Donald Trump, now aided by his new Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, has been on a tear fulfilling his campaign promise to root out all the “woke crap” in America’s military.
And he can’t go fast enough.
Trump signed an executive order to revise the Pentagon’s policy on transgender troops, likely setting in motion a future ban on their military service.
BUT OF COURSE – Six active-duty service members file first lawsuit challenging Trump’s transgender troop ban.
Trump’s latest order gives uniformed military 30 days to eliminate divisive ‘diversity’ efforts.
FOR YOUR EYES ONLY – Here’s a roundup of today’s other top defense stories ending the week from conservative national security expert PAUL CRESPO.
Not the President’s Daily Brief, but almost as good – PAUL’S DEFENSE BRIEFING – the PDB:
NATIONAL SECURITY
In Trump’s Pentagon, a growing skepticism about US military power. How to understand how the second Trump team may use the military.
HOMELAND SECURITY
American Airlines jet landing with 64 aboard collides with an Army helicopter at Reagan Airport near DC, prompting a large search-and-rescue operation in the nearby frigid Potomac River. Some bodies recovered. No survivors expected.
Military planes conduct first migrant deportation flights.
Armed troops arrive in Texas, California to begin work at the southwest border. Marines have begun temporary barriers along a wall in San Ysidro, Calif., as an Air Force crew prepared to take off from Fort Bliss, Texas, to Ecuador with the military’s fourth planeload of deported illegals.
POLITICS
A US shutdown on foreign aid is hitting worldwide. Secretary of State Rubio adds more exemptions.
US POWER OVERSEAS
CHINA THREAT
The Philippines launched a comic book on Friday to counter China’s disinformation campaign to push its expansive territorial claims in the South China Sea.
RUSSIA THREAT – UKRAINE WAR
Danish leader on European tour as Copenhagen moves to strengthen presence around Greenland.
NORTH KOREA THREAT
SPACE THREAT
INTERNATIONAL SECURITY
US MILITARY
Navy to overhaul Mk 45 guns to improve their long-range strike and air defense capabilities.
A special pilot career intermission program begun 12 years ago lets Marines pause their active-duty career and transition to the Individual Ready Reserve for up to three years to follow non-military pursuits. But so far, very few takers.
Pilot safe after F-35 military jet suffers ‘significant damage’ in accident at Alaska base.
END of PDB
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NO More Woke
Need to move our Military to pre world war 2 when it was Real men not these sissies we have know thanks to a lot of women, they want to be men they are not, they don’t belong on front lines in war, all these women are not as strong or fast as men very few can even come close and sorry but most women could not pick up a injured soldier and carry them to safety, there are jobs women can do like before these so called feminist have to have hard training to help them fight if they have to hopefully never again, but we need real men not these sissies obama put in and no cutting basics all the same nothing good comes out of making it easier so those that are not able to get threw what our Soldiers have done for generations, and this changing hair and other items are Not Acceptable for Our Military Personnel