PAUL’S DEFENSE BRIEF (PDB) – DOGE’s Real Challenge in the Pentagon Isn’t Slashing the Workforce, It’s Boosting Productivity. At the Pentagon, a daily 15-minute briefing can take 43 hours of staff work. And it’s the norm.
With roughly 2.8 million personnel, DOD spends $299 billion on personnel costs, with billions more allocated towards contractors performing similar jobs. Manpower accounts for one-third of the defense budget.
The Navy was the big winner when teams of national security experts in a think tank-run DOD funding exercise were tasked with finding and reallocating $50 billion in the defense budget last week. The Army came up short.
FOR YOUR EYES ONLY – Here’s a roundup of today’s other top defense stories ending the week 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
Air Force planners see value in mid-conflict deterrence using ‘reveal and conceal’ later game. In the not-so-distant future, war has broken out in the Indo-Pacific between the U.S. and China. Yet mid-conflict, the U.S. quickly introduces a new capability previously hidden — perhaps thousands of drones — and startled by this reveal, Beijing recalculates and backs down.
HOMELAND SECURITY
Senior national security officials coordinated airstrikes against Houthi targets in Yemen using a non-authorized group chat (via the commercial SIGNAL app) which accidentally included the top editor of The Atlantic, likely breaking federal laws and protocols. (RELATED: National Security Official Learns Fate After HUGE War Plan Leak)
The accidental leak of sensitive military information has provoked a flurry of reactions across DC.
POLITICS
PENTAGON WOKE WATCH
US POWER OVERSEAS
CHINA THREAT
The House Foreign Affairs Committee wants to know how to break China’s hold on African resources as Trump eyes a deal with Congo. (RELATED: Desperate African President Appeals To Trump, Offers $20+ Trillion In Minerals)
RUSSIA THREAT – UKRAINE WAR
Russia launched a barrage of drones across Ukraine overnight Sunday, ahead of ceasefire talks.
NATO’s next large-scale, live-fly exercise, Ramstein Flag 2025. Troops from more than 15 countries are getting set to conduct a series of complex training missions that mirror realistic, contemporary combat scenarios and confront emerging adversarial threats.
Ukraine will need major rebuilding when war ends. Here’s why the US isn’t likely to invest in its recovery with a new Marshall Plan. Especially as Trump wants Ukraine to repay the US for helping to defend the country against Russia’s invasion.
IRAN THREAT/ISRAEL WARS
Watch fighter jets launch in support of CENTCOM operations against Iran-backed Houthi rebels.
NORTH KOREA THREAT
INTERNATIONAL SECURITY
Britain to keep F-35s in service until 2069 when the aircraft is set to retire from UK service.
European universities offering ‘scientific asylum’ to US researchers looking to flee the funding freezes, cuts, “censorship” and “political interference,” under Trump.
US MILITARY
Laser weapons versus drones in huge, week-long testing and experimentation US exercise.
Images show DARPA’s long range autonomous vessel, the USX-1 Defiant, in testing.
END of PDB
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F47:
Make F47 a multi service fighter: see F4 Phantom., A1 Skyraider, B66/A3 from Cold War
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