FRIDAY PDB – We must focus on patriotism, fitness and warfighting, not gender pronouns, divisive race ideologies or lower standards for weaker, mostly female recruits.
Pentagon critics blame diversity policies and lower fitness standards for recruiting woes. Conservative politicians and critics of Team Biden have released a report that offers a solution to the recruiting issues facing the military: Ditch efforts to add diversity, fight extremism or combat climate change.
“What we’re trying to do is save the military from a pernicious ideology that can have a very negative effect on warfighting capability,” said a member of the Heritage Foundation panel that wrote the report.
The Heritage report underscores that the far-left policies embraced by Team Biden (such as anti-white CRT, weakened fitness standards and the radical trans agenda) have led to a loss of confidence among service members, undermined the military and, in turn, hurt recruitment.
Mike Berry, a former lawyer for the Marine Corps and another member of the panel, says that due to the leftist agenda “we’re in an era in which our young people are being told, ‘America is not worth sacrificing for, America is not worth serving, America is not worth risking your life for.'”
FOR YOUR EYES ONLY – Here’s a roundup of other developing stories.
Not the President’s Daily Brief, but almost as good – PAUL’S DAILY BRIEFING – the PDB:
NATIONAL SECURITY
Russia says it will continue notifications of ballistic missile launches. Clarifying previous statements, Russia’s deputy foreign minister said Moscow would comply with a 1988 notification agreement despite the suspension of the New START nonproliferation accord.
Russia’s ghost fleet of oil tankers is a floating time bomb. Moscow has turned to a flotilla of outdated, untraceable ships to duck sanctions, and they are a menace to the oceans.
HOMELAND SECURITY
DOD launches website to accompany ‘Hack the Pentagon’ program. It launched a website to accompany its “Hack the Pentagon” program in order to scale and provide additional resources for the program, the DOD’s Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) announced.
GUESS HACKERS ARE LISTENING TO DOD – Hackers probing contractors for path to Pentagon, DISA chief says. Foreign hackers are targeting U.S. government contractors not only for their intellectual property, but also to find avenues into Pentagon networks, according to the director of the Defense Information Systems Agency.
CHINA THREAT
YES – IT SHOULD – China and Saudi Arabia are getting closer. Should the US be worried? Saudi Arabia has moved to join a China-led Asian security and economic bloc, having been granted dialogue partner status in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). The club of mostly ex-Soviet states includes Russia and China, as well as India and Pakistan. The kingdom could eventually be granted full membership. China’s growing security role in the region should worry Washington.
AUKUS nuke submarine agreement will help deter China from Taiwan invasion, says former PACOM CO. The technology sharing agreement meant to help Australia build its own nuclear-powered submarines will help deter China from invading Taiwan.
RUSSIA THREAT – UKRAINE WAR
US has trained more than 7,000 Ukrainian troops, dozens at Fort Sill. Dozens of Ukrainian soldiers at Fort Sill, Okla., have finished learning how to use the Patriot missile system, part of the more than 7,000 troops the U.S. has trained to fight Russian forces so far.
Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 401. Turkey’s president said Vladimir Putin may visit Turkey in April to inaugurate the first nuclear power reactor built by Russia’s state atomic energy company. The U.S. said that Russia is looking again to North Korea for weapons for its war in Ukraine, this time in a deal to give Pyongyang much-needed food and other commodities.
Russia set to take chair of UN security council amid Ukraine war. Its chairing a UN Security Council meeting draws criticism from Ukrainian leaders, as Russia continues its year long war against its neighbor.
SPACE THREAT
New ‘Watch Center’ to ring alarms on space-related cyber threats. “Space is a warfighting domain and cyber is a critical area of space security. We all know cyber-attacks are becoming more frequent. They’re more severe, they’re even more sophisticated,” says a senior software engineer at Lockheed Martin.
INTERNATIONAL SECURITY
Welcome to NATO: Finland clears Turkish hurdle, will join military alliance in coming weeks. Sweden, meanwhile, remains on the outside looking in, as Turkey and Hungary have not moved to approve its membership.
NATO, US forces join Romania-led Black Sea military drills. The sea and air exercises involve 3,400 military personnel from 12 NATO member countries and some partner nations.
Denmark acknowledges military shortcomings as it hosts large NATO drill. It has major deficiencies in its ability to defend its territory and meet its NATO commitments despite pledges to increase defense spending, its army chief said.
BIDEN’S AFGHAN DISASTER
America and the Taliban part 1 review: The Afghanistan disaster on PBS. The first episode of a three-part ‘Frontline’ documentary explores the U.S.’s long, violent and ultimately futile fight against the radical Islamist movement.
US MILITARY
US Air Force drops Lockheed hypersonic missile after failed tests. It isn’t going to buy the hypersonic AGM-183A Air-launched Rapid Response Weapon after, following problems during testing.
TERMINATOR RISING – This may be the Army’s new missile-slinging battlebot of choice. Stingers, Hellfires, and a 30mm chain gun, all in a neat, unmanned package.
Lawmakers decry Navy’s plan to decommission aging amphibious ships. The Navy’s plan to decommission three amphibious warships ahead of schedule has drawn ire from some legislators, who last year put into law a requirement for the Navy to maintain a fleet of at least 31 ships for the Marines.
Marine Corps rejects Pentagon’s pitch for new amphibious ship designs. DOD has shown the Marines drawings of scaled-down, less expensive amphibious warship designs — but a Marine general says he won’t accept them.
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Its Damn WOKE policies
If the military was “woke” when I was commissioned in 1962, I would have never joined up for 20 years.