America’s Not Ready For 21st Century Warfare

PAUL’S DEFENSE BRIEF (PDB) — TOPLINE STORY: Our military is built for the wrong century. Ukraine and Iran have shown us that war as we’ve known it is over.

We have assumed that if U.S. ever has to fight a war, we are going to have technological superiority; that we have military primacy in the world and dominance over any potential competitor; and that the war’s not going to last very long. We’re not going to shoot a lot of weapons. We’re not going to lose a lot of ships and planes and other types of big military platforms.

So, we have built and sized and shaped our military around exactly the kinds of systems that you would expect to flow from that assumption: Very expensive, very exquisite, very hard-to-produce military systems and weapons.

But I would argue that the new assumptions we are now seeing are almost the opposite of what we’ve built our military around. We don’t have the military dominance that many of us in 1990s and early 2000s just took for granted. We have peer competitors and rivals who are adapting to and really disrupting the American way of war.

I think that we are going to find a much more contested battlefield, we’re going to lose a lot of planes, ships, satellites, and other things. We’re going to shoot a lot of weapons, and we’re going to have to replace that as an act of production over a long period of time. That is not a future we’re really ready for.

FOR YOUR EYES ONLY – The latest defense news from conservative national security expert PAUL CRESPO.

THE PDB – Not the President’s Daily Briefing, but almost as good – PAUL’S DEFENSE BRIEF:    

NATIONAL SECURITY

Cuba sees higher risk of U.S. military action as negotiations between the nations stagnate.

HOMELAND SECURITY

45-year-old National Guard recruit wanted as an “international fugitive” for multi-million-dollar financial crimes was arrested while in basic training at Missouri Army base.

DEFENSE POLITICS

White House proposes all federal employees sign nondisclosure agreements to help restrict leaks that are considered “widespread” issue across the government.

Democrat senator requested that an inspector general oversight body designate one an agency watchdogs to spearhead reviews of ongoing war in Iran, citing requirement in federal statute.

U.S. designated two of Brazil’s most powerful criminal organizations, the Red Command and First Capital Command, as terrorist organizations, escalating tensions with left-wing leaders in Brasilia, who strongly opposes the move.

US POWER OVERSEAS

U.S. forces deployed to war zones have been targeted using commercially available location data.

Marines and sailors with 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group (ARG), finally head home after 10-month deployment.

Guatemala requests U.S. military cooperation against drug trafficking, says its president spoke with Pete Hegseth to confirm terms of cooperation.

U.S. military strikes another drug boat in eastern Pacific, killing 2 narco smugglers.

IRAN WAR

U.S. and Iran exchange strikes as Israel intensifies attacks on southern Lebanon.

U.S. attacks Bandar Abbas again: Why is port so important for Iran? It occupies strategically sensitive position in Strait of Hormuz.

Strait of Hormuz: Supply chain loop that broke the world. It took only five days after U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran for Iran to close the Strait, one of world’s most vital energy and maritime chokepoints.

ISRAEL WAR: LEBANON

Israel carried out an airstrike on southern suburb of Lebanon’s capital, further straining fragile ceasefire day before crucial negotiations in Washington.

Netanyahu orders Israeli army to seize ‘70% of Gaza Strip’, violating ceasefire deal. Speaking in West Bank settlement, Israeli PM, who is fighting for political survival before elections, says ‘we are squeezing Hamas.’

CHINA THREAT

U.S. military quietly seeking to bolster ability to deter or battle China over Taiwan, including with new warship-killing bombs and advanced sea mines.

RUSSIA THREAT/UKRAINE WAR

Ukrainian drones hit pipeline, refinery, fuel depot in overnight strikes. Ukrainian drones have struck targets across several Russian regions overnight, in what appears to be the latest long-range attack on Moscow’s vital oil industry. Ukraine strikes Russian oil pumping station 800 miles behind front lines.

Nearly 500,000 Russian soldiers have died in Ukraine war, UK says. It is highest on-the-record estimate of Russian military deaths to come from any government since war in Ukraine began.

Ukraine will buy 20 new Gripen fighter jets, and Sweden will donate 16 of an older model next year.

NATO member Romania said drone hit southeastern city during an overnight Russian attack on neighboring Ukraine, the first time in the war that drone hit densely populated area in Romania and caused injuries.

EUROPEAN DEFENSE

Lithuania Army to buy Patria six-wheel-drive armored personnel carriers.

NORTH KOREA THREAT

What everyone is missing about North Korea’s reunification strategy. When news broke that North Korea had revised its constitution, analysts in West and across Korean Peninsula rushed to declare it the formal death of Korean reunification as a policy objective.

SPACE THREATS

Space Force plans nationwide network of ‘resilient operations centers’ to ensure military space missions can continue during wartime when installations could come under attack.

INTERNATIONAL SECURITY

German Defense Minister came to Canada with message that was as much political as commercial: Buy our submarines, and Germany will have your back.

Canada will purchase six GlobalEye early warning and control aircraft from Saab to not only boost Canadian military capabilities but energize domestic defense production.

US MILITARY

Pentagon plans to spend $50 billion on drone warfare as LUCAS drone moving at rocket speed and showing off new low-level capability crashed through cement structure on test range. A vivid demonstration of just how quickly FLM-136 drone is evolving.

Though these resupply drones were designed to haul supplies across battlefields, Army recently tried adding new capability to its body to see if it could fire rockets.

END of PDB

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