PAUL’S DEFENSE BRIEF (PDB) – US nuke forces need to get bigger and better fast. Russia is threatening nuclear strikes on the West for its support to Ukraine. China is the fastest growing nuclear power on the planet. North Korea continues to expand and advance its nuclear and missile programs. And there is Iran’s nuclear weapon program.
Meanwhile, the U.S. is modernizing its strategic deterrent at a glacial pace.
And that U.S. nuke modernization program was established 15 years ago, prior to Moscow’s and Beijing’s manifest expansionism and related nuclear war fighting focus became obvious. Largely unchanged since its establishment, it is now insufficient to deter adversary theater nuclear employment.
While the U.S. is focused on modernizing an arsenal that is designed to deter strategic attack, America’s adversaries are quietly fielding and expanding nuclear arsenals that are not only designed to deter a strategic attack on their homelands but also are optimized for nuclear warfighting.
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
By sending shock waves through the world, Trump may have achieved something that most Europeans would have thought highly unlikely till now. Its leaders seem to have finally recognized the need to take charge of their own defense. (RELATED: JD Vance Rebukes Zelensky’s ‘Absurd’ ’60 Minutes’ Interview)
HOMELAND SECURITY
The FAA released videos of its testing of drone-detecting technologies, underway in New Jersey. The agency said the tests are not related to the wave of drone incursions over the state last year, but the results could help improve situational awareness of unmanned aircraft.
PENTAGON WOKE WATCH
Army and Air Force libraries have been told to go through their stacks to find books related to DEI.
POLITICS
Pentagon senior adviser Dan Caldwell has been ousted in probe into leaks. He has been placed on administrative leave and was escorted out of the Pentagon by security on Tuesday. (RELATED: Top Official Forcibly Removed From Pentagon)
AND BIDEN INTERFERENCE – New report highlights basic disagreements between the Air Force and Space Command about the risks associated with permanently basing the command’s headquarters at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama.
US POWER OVERSEAS
CHINA THREAT
New report stresses that, to better counter Beijing, Australia, Japan and the US (AJUS) must work together more on defense, especially when it comes to boosting intelligence sharing and increased real-world operational cooperation.
Hong Kong’s postal service to stop shipping goods bound for the US on April 27 due to ‘bullying acts.’
RUSSIA THREAT – UKRAINE WAR
Australian officials are pushing back on a report by ‘Janes’ that Russia is seeking to base long-range bombers at an Indonesian airbase in its easternmost province. The Manuhua Air Force Base is situated about 850 miles north of the Australian port of Darwin.
NORTH KOREA THREAT
IRAN THREAT/MIDEAST
A second U.S. aircraft carrier — USS Carl Vinson — is operating in Mideast waters ahead of the next round of talks between Iran and the US over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program. (RELATED: Prominent US Enemy Leader Killed)
SPACE THREAT
INTERNATIONAL SECURITY
Lockheed Martin F-35: The real winner in the Ukraine war.
The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force will launch its Indo-Pacific Deployment on April 21. A total of five ships forming four surface units deploy during the mission, supported by submarines and a Maritime Patrol Aircraft.
Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) announced the formation of a rival government, two years since the country descended into a civil war that has left tens of thousands dead and triggered one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises.
US MILITARY
It’s time to fully fund the Air Force’s collaborative combat aircraft. Chronic underfunding and high combat demand have worn its aircraft so hard that the capability of the Air Force has declined to dangerous levels.
END of PDB
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