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NATIONAL SECURITY
GO WOKE GO BROKE – With few able and fewer willing, US military can’t find recruits. Fighting headwinds from the pandemic, the tight labor market and demographic shifts, the armed forces may fall further short of enlistment quotas this year than they have in decades.
HOMELAND DEFENSE
US homeland at risk from ‘garden-variety’ cruise missiles: CSIS. A new report is warning that amid all the hype surrounding hypersonics, the US homeland remains vulnerable to attack by “garden-variety” cruise missiles, as evidenced by their potency in Ukraine.
CSIS cruise missile defense plan would cost less than CBO’s, reduce need for fighters. U.S. Northern Command’s homeland cruise missile detection and defenses must be upgraded to respond to new threats, experts say, and a major D.C. think tank proposes a multi-layered defense that would require fewer Air Force fighters in the air and use new E-7 Wedgetails, the report’s authors told Air Force Magazine.
HOMELAND SECURITY
Troops’ use of TikTok may be national security threat, FCC commissioner says. Troops and family members could be jeopardizing national security with their use of the TikTok video-sharing app, a U.S. regulator told lawmakers.
Ex-CIA engineer convicted in massive theft of secret info. A former CIA software engineer was convicted on Wednesday of federal charges accusing him of causing the biggest theft of classified information in CIA history.
CHINA THREAT
B-2 Spirits arrive in Australia for Bomber Task Force rotation. U.S. airmen have integrated with their Australian counterparts in every specialty — aviation, fuels, logistics, maintenance and more. Read More
CHICOM PROVOCATIONS – Chinese fighter jet had ‘unsafe’ interaction with US military plane in June. The incident, not previously reported, involved a Chinese Su-30 and a U.S. C-130.
RUSSIA THREAT
Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 142. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy admonished Moscow for carrying out a missile attack in the central city of Vinnytsia, calling it an “act of terrorism” and saying no other country in the world represents a greater “terrorist” threat than Russia.
Ukraine’s new US rockets are causing fresh problems for Russia. There’s a new and potentially very significant factor in the Ukrainian conflict: the Ukrainians’ ability to use recently supplied Western systems to hit Russian command posts, logistical hubs and ammunition dumps a long way beyond the front lines.
Russia launches deadly strike on Ukrainian city a day after grain talks breakthrough. Russian missiles struck the Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia far behind the frontlines on Thursday in an attack which Ukrainian officials called a war crime and said had killed at least 21 people, including three children.
IRAN THREAT
Iran’s military warns US against threats to use force. The Iranian military warned the United States and Israel on Friday against threatening Iran with force, Iranian media reported, after U.S. President Joe Biden said he would use force as a last resort to prevent Tehran getting a nuclear weapon.
Biden should keep the IRGC’s Khatam al-Anbiya on its sanctions list. As part of negotiations to revive a version of the 2015 nuclear deal, Iran is reportedly demanding the suspension of U.S. sanctions imposed on Khatam al-Anbiya Construction Headquarters, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ (IRGC’s) hub for infrastructure and construction projects. If the reports are accurate, Iran is effectively asking President Joe Biden to unshackle the IRGC’s key economic arm from sanctions, thereby undermining the administration’s decision to keep the Guard on the State Department’s Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) list.
US MILITARY AND SPACE
House approves measure to share information on UFO reports. A bipartisan amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act would establish a “secure system” to receive reports about UFOs. The Senate has yet to take up the bill.
US Coast Guard calls for larger icebreaker fleet to compete in the Arctic. The U.S. Coast Guard’s icebreaker capability must grow to counter Russian and Chinese activities in the Arctic, the service’s commandant told lawmakers Thursday.
Senate must back creation of ‘Space National Guard’ to end a needless division. At a time when China and Russia are seeking to overtake the United States in space — having grown their combined space assets by 70% from 2019 to 2021 — we cannot afford any setbacks in our own space program.
END of PDB
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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 state and federal office, taught political science, wrote for the editorial board of a major newspaper and had his own radio show. A graduate of Georgetown, London and Cambridge universities, he brings decades of experience and insight to the issues that most threaten our American liberty – at home and from abroad. To read more go to: paulcrespo.com.
Go Woke & lose recruits
Who would want to be in the military under, a so-called commander in chief, who will betray you and leave you and Allies behind as he did in his Cowardly withdrawal of Afghanistan! With the murder of 13 military personnel on his bloody hands!