PAUL’S DEFENSE BRIEF (PDB) – What lesson is it for drones? U.S. lost the war against IEDs or improvised explosive devices. Despite technological innovation, training, and tactical brilliance, attacks persisted.
Tactical adaptations failed to prevent strategic defeat. Most critically, countermeasures never closed the risk-cost imbalance.
FOR YOUR EYES ONLY – Here’s a roundup of today’s other top defense news 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
POLITICS
DEFENSE POLITICS
Draft continuing resolution to reopen the government includes $1B for Navy shipbuilding.
US POWER OVERSEAS
U.S. forces launch relief effort in the Philippines after 2 back-to-back typhoons batter islands.
CHINA THREAT
RUSSIA THREAT
Ukrainian forces are struggling to hold embattled eastern city of Pokrovsk in the southwest Zaporizhzhia region. Russian troops are now little more than 50 miles east of Zaporizhia, one of Ukraine’s biggest cities with more than 700,000 people.
Top Ukrainian ministers submit their resignations. As Russia’s renewed attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure cause rolling blackouts ahead of winter, major embezzlement and kickbacks scandal involving state-owned nuclear power company has put top officials under scrutiny.
Watch “Hedgehog defense” the latest in Ukrainian anti-drone armor defense.
MIDDLE EAST THREATS
NORTH KOREA THREAT
SPACE THREATS
INTERNATIONAL SECURITY
US MILITARY
END of PDB
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Reference Operation Proper Exit. In the last 15 months I spent in Iraq, was in Diyala up in Muqdadiyah during the surge at FOB Normandy. Some of our Troopers went back to Normandy and in Muqdadiyah, Baqubah, multiple other locations those combat wounded were able to go anywhere without body armor and were thanked by the locals for their sacrifice (as many had lost limbs). All told our Troopers that things were then so much better now that AQIZ was gone. Enter a President that removes all combat troops and intel folks instead of letting them get things more stabilized. Things like getting Sunni and Shia to work together for Iraq and getting rid of the Iranian influence. AQIZ (by this time ISIS) returns and cause more problems than ever before. The war was WON before that move was made. And it took a long time for the Iraqis to get things settled down. Don not want to hear we lost the war there. The war was won and politicians rekindled the fire to keep the defense dollars and stocks flowing.