PAUL’S DEFENSE BRIEF (PDB) – Some say NO. The U.S. military can’t do everything at once. Even with a nearly $1 trillion budget, we can only do so much. Some Pentagon officials are privately warning that we may not be able to threaten Venezuela’s regime, support protesters seeking to topple Iran’s government, and protect its interests in Indo-Pacific without being overstretched.
Add to that the fact that the U.S. National Defense Strategy (NDS), which helps the Pentagon set its priorities and is based on the recently published National Security Strategy (NSS), was supposed to be published by now but has not been. So, the military has no specific doctrine to follow.
“That’s a lot of theaters at the same time, and we are not built to do that,” a U.S. defense official explained.
Navy’s top admiral is concerned about the strain on the new Ford Carrier Strike Group. Though there are currently no aircraft carriers in the Central Command region, the CNO said he would seek alternatives to extending the deployment of the USS Gerald R. Ford carrier strike group for a potential operation against Iran.
Meanwhile, should the U.S. quickly fly planes toward the region, they could be there in as little as 16 hours. Trump wrote on Truth Social on January 2 that if Iran “violently kills peaceful protesters, which is their custom, the United States of America will come to their rescue.”
He added, “We are locked and loaded and ready to go.”
FOR YOUR EYES ONLY – Here’s a roundup of today’s other top 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
HOMELAND SECURITY
DEFENSE POLITICS
More than half of U.S. adults believe Trump has “gone too far” in using the U.S. military to intervene in other countries. So, almost half think he hasn’t gone far enough or is doing just fine.
Veterans say legal and illegal immigration crackdowns and politics around the shooting of two National Guardsmen in DC in November have led to “wholesale punishment” against Afghan allies still in that country who once aided U.S. forces and now seek refuge from the Taliban in the U.S.
VENEZUELA RAID & AFTERMATH
Days before the U.S. military operation that removed Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro from power, Trump administration lawyers blessed the action, saying it would “not rise to the level of a war in the constitutional sense” and would serve “important national interests,” according to a legal opinion that articulates a muscular view of presidential power.
IRAN CRISIS
Oops. An Iranian-flagged freighter has gone down in the Caspian Sea.
GREENLAND CRISIS
Germany leads a military mission in Greenland.
Just one in five Americans support efforts to acquire Greenland: Poll.
White House post about Greenland (X).
CHINA THREAT
RUSSIA THREAT/UKRAINE WAR
US MILITARY
Death from above: New U.S. armor-piercing weapon fast-tracked. A smart anti-tank munition that helps soldiers hold their own against tracked vehicles is being hurried to the force after successful testing in Bavaria, Germany.
END of PDB
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So I’m supposed to believe that Americans want the biggest chunk of land north of us besides Canada in the hands of Russia and China? I think the poll question needs a bit of rewording.
The military services are concerned with combat readiness, the Coast Guard is concerned with illegal immigration and narcoterrorists, the Space Force is concerned with uniforms.
We have been protecting Greenland since WWII; legally, morally, strategically and tactically, Greenland should be a Protectorate of ours like Guam, for example.
Trm!p is doing just great…..I’m sure he is getting helpl from JFKjr ! Kennedy-Trump sounds good to me ! And, they have God on our side too ! How good can it get !!