PAUL’S DEFENSE BRIEF (PDB) – Biden approves national security memo on China, Iran, North Korea and Russia ahead of Trump’s return to the White House. It could serve as a road map for the incoming administration as it looks to counter growing cooperation among the four rogue states.
Will Team Trump follow any of it?
Coordination has accelerated between the countries in the aftermath of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
The officials noted that as Russia has become more isolated by much of the world, Moscow has turned to Iran for drones and missiles.
From North Korea, the Russians have received artillery, missiles and even thousands of troops that have traveled to help the Russians try to repel Ukrainian forces from the Kursk region.
China, meanwhile, has supported Russia with dual use components that help keep its military industrial base afloat.
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
The US military’s extensive combat experience over more than two decades gives American service members a decisive advantage over China’s military, says Marine Corps’ top general.
HOMELAND SECURITY/LAW ENFORCEMENT
Chinese citizen arrested after allegedly flying drone, taking photos of Space Force base. This, amid other high-profile drone swarms at US military bases.
Homeland Security shares new details of mysterious large drone flights over New Jersey. The large mysterious drones appear to avoid detection by traditional methods such as helicopter and radio,
FBI Director Wray says he intends to resign before Trump takes office in January. The announcement came a week and a half after Trump said he would nominate Kash Patel for the job.
US POWER OVERSEAS
Massive U.S. airstrikes on Islamic State militants in Syria were meant in part as a message to the group and a move to ensure that it doesn’t try to take advantage of the chaos following the overthrow of Bashar Assad’s government.
American MQ-9 Reaper drone shot down in Syria by US ally Syrian Democratic Forces.
POLITICS
Hegseth meets with moderate GOP Sen. Susan Collins as he lobbies for key votes in the Senate. Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Defense Department said he had a “wonderful conversation” with Collins.
Blinken faces GOP critics in Congress who say disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal ‘lit the world on fire’. Secretary of State Antony Blinken defended the administration, saying Democrats struggled to make the best of a bad pullout deal struck by Donald Trump.
Air Force Academy sued over race-conscious admissions by a group that opposes the use of racial preferences in college admissions. This, in the wake of a landmark Supreme Court ruling last year.
IRAN THREAT/ISRAEL WARS
Russia pushed Assad to flee Syria after concluding he’d lost war as his army melted away.
CHINA THREAT
Archipelago of resistance: The Philippines is rising to meet the China threat, but it has a crucial year ahead. Of all the flashpoints facing the Trump administration on Jan. 20, 2025, China’s campaign of intimidation and maritime occupation in the South China Sea may prove the most concerning.
Taiwan demands that China end its aggressive military activity in nearby waters.
RUSSIA THREAT – UKRAINE WAR
US warns Russia may be ready to use new lethal intermediate-range ballistic missile against Ukraine again in ‘coming days’, as both sides wrestle for a battlefield advantage that will give them leverage in any negotiations to end the war.
NORTH KOREA THREAT
South Korea’s President Yoon Suk Yeol looks determined to battle on rather than step down early even as probes deepen into his martial law declaration and more members of his party say they will back impeachment.
SPACE THREAT
Space Force’s first Silent Barker space observation satellites to go live in early 2025.
INTERNATIONAL SECURITY
Leaked report reveals Islamist infiltration of Sudan’s Popular Resistance Forces (PRF), the civilian militias fighting alongside the Sudanese army against the Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
US MILITARY
‘LCS is back’ with firepower lethality upgrades including new launchers for the bigger SM-6 missiles, says SECNAV. The Navy is planning the upgrade on both classes of the Littoral Combat Ship.
Extended range AIM-120s, AIM-9s eyed to meet future air-to-air missile demands as one way to help right-size missile inventories amid growing concerns that obligations in the Middle East and Ukraine are eating into key munition stocks.
Navy expects to have first female submarine commander by 2028. This, fourteen years after the Navy began integrating women into submarine crews.
END of PDB
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Biden and his cronies are desperate.
If Biden proposed it I expect it to be as effective as his border strategy.
” saying Democrats struggled to make the best of a bad pullout deal struck by Donald Trump.”
Why do they always lie?
Trump’s deal was much better than what we got.
They would not have gotten money, weapons. nor our air base and no one would have been left behind/