PDB – Biden’s Hollow Defense Budget

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DEFENSE BUDGET

BIDEN INFLATION FAILURE – How the Biden Pentagon’s bad inflation math made a hollow budget. If inflation trends keep, AEI’s John Ferrari says DoD will see buying power plummet even as it spends billions.

NATIONAL SECURITY

China, Russia seek weapons to hit US satellites, Pentagon says. China and Russia continue to develop and deploy weapons that can attack U.S. satellites even as they increase their own fleets of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance space vehicles, according to the Pentagon’s intelligence agency.

BIDEN CHEAPENS THE TERM – U.S. President intensifies rhetoric on the war. Joe Biden intentionally used the word ‘genocide’ and later told reporters he would “let the lawyers decide internationally whether or not it qualifies.”

INCREASINGLY UGLY WORLD – Human rights and democracy eroding worldwide, U.S. finds. Secretary of State Antony Blinken described what he called a continued “recession” in basic rights and the rule of law over the past year as he unveiled the U.S. government’s annual assessment of the global human rights situation.

HOMELAND SECURITY

JACKASS – Virginia GOP official resigns after revelation of his call to lynch the defense secretary. The election board official used the n-word and called for “a good public lynching.”

U.S. crypto currency researcher sentenced to five years for helping North Korea evade sanctions. A former researcher at a high-profile cryptocurrency group was sentenced to five years and three months in prison on Tuesday for conspiring to help North Korea evade U.S. sanctions using cryptocurrency, federal prosecutors in Manhattan said.

CHINA THREAT

EXCELLENT – Taiwan issues first war survival handbook amid China threat. Taiwan’s military released a handbook on civil defense for the first time on Tuesday, giving citizens survival guidance in a war scenario as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine focuses attention on how the island should respond to China’s pressure.

Navy reaches goal of homeporting 5 fast-attack submarines on Guam by year’s end. The fast-attack submarine USS Annapolis arrived at Naval Base Guam late last month, fulfilling a Navy goal as the service continues to bolster its presence in the Indo-Pacific.

RUSSIA THREAT

MO WEAPONS – Pentagon looks to vastly expand weapons for Ukraine. Ukrainian officials also met recently with the maker of Reaper and Predator drones, a company official said.

Fighting in Ukraine impedes investigation of poison-gas claims. U.S. officials and weapons experts say it can be difficult from afar to draw firm conclusions about a possible chemical weapons attack based on symptoms reported by victims, and even harder to obtain physical samples that are guaranteed to be free from tampering.

Ukraine secret service says it has arrested top Putin ally. Ukraine’s security services on Tuesday said they had arrested pro-Russian politician Viktor Medvedchuk, who is President Vladimir Putin’s closest and most influential ally in Ukraine.

NORTH KOREA

USS Abraham Lincoln operating in Sea of Japan following North Korea missile tests. The aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln and its carrier strike group are operating off the Korean peninsula for the first time since 2017.

US MILITARY AND SPACE – MARINES

WORTH THE DEBATE – First to fight: Is this the end of the Corps as America’s 911 force? A group of more than two dozen retired Marines fear completely ditching tanks, and cutting ­artillery, air components and law enforcement battalions might soon spell the end of the Corps as America’s 911 force. And even the end of the Corps itself.

‘Lightning Carrier’ concept shows how Navy, Marine Corps can fly more F-35Bs from amphibs. The USS Tripoli had 20 of the fifth-generation aircraft on board conducting flight operations during a recent demonstration.

ORCHESTRATED MOVE – Marine Corps officer, prospective recruits file suit over religious discrimination against Sikhs. An active-duty Marine artillery officer and three prospective recruits, all of whom are Sikhs, are taking the U.S. military to court over rules prohibiting them from having a beard and long hair or wearing religious items.

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