Shock & Awe: Trump Secures Borders And Deports Illegals

PAUL’S DEFENSE BRIEF (PDB) –  President Trump is moving at warp speed. The US military is now carrying out intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance missions along the southern border and off the coast of Mexico using Air Force RC-135 Rivet Joint and Navy P-8 Poseidon aircraft.

Mexico deploys the first of 10,000 National Guard troops to the US border after Trump’s tariff threat.

Ten suspected Venezuelan gang members were among the first to arrive Tuesday at Naval Base Guantanamo Bay as US Marines worked to expand the center’s illegal migrant capacity to hold thousands more.

Guatemala gives Marco Rubio a second deportation deal for illegal migrants being sent home from the US, after El Salvador’s offer. The country will also accept migrants from other countries deported from the U.S.

At least 104 Indian citizens deported from the US on military aircraft.

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

A Quebec, Canada shipbuilder is set to play a key role in a joint icebreaker production agreement between Canada, the US and Finland, as it moves forward with plans to expand its operations south of the border despite trade war talk.

HOMELAND SECURITY

Customs and Border Protection flies air security over Caesars Superdome for Super Bowl LIX.

PENTAGON WOKE WATCH

The Military Academy at West Point has disbanded a dozen cadet clubs centered on ethnicity, gender, race and sexuality in response to Trump’s push to eliminate DEI programs throughout the government.

The Air Force has temporarily halted career development courses as part of a broader effort to remove DEI-related content from military training and education.

POLITICS

SECDEF Hegseth to host Australian defense leader at Pentagon in first visit with a foreign peer.

The Defense Intelligence Agency, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence have offered their workforces a “deferred resignation” offer akin to the one recently sent to other federal civilian agencies through OPM.

US POWER OVERSEAS

US and allies continue to strike the Islamic State terror group and other terrorist targets to prevent a comeback of the group.

Trump on troops in Gaza: ‘If it’s necessary, we’ll do that.’ THAT’S NOT LIKELY.

IRAN THREAT/ISRAEL WAR

Netanyahu backs Trump’s Gaza ‘take over’ as Israeli defense minister instructs military to draw up voluntary Gaza migration plan.

CHINA THREAT

US Air Force B-1 bombers flew alongside Philippine fighter jets over the South China Sea on Feb. 4 in a significant show of airpower in a disputed region.

Preventing China’s DeepSeek in Space. As its capabilities clearly demonstrate,  Chinese advanced technology presents a real risk both to US economic and security interests.

The website of the Chinese AI company DeepSeek, whose chatbot became the most downloaded app on Apple store in the US, could send user login information to a Chinese state-owned telecommunications company barred from operating in US.

RUSSIA THREAT – UKRAINE WAR

Both Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky are interested in a deal to swap American arms for trillions of dollars’ worth of rare earth minerals, including lithium and titanium. But a lot of those resources exist in territory captured by Russia or close to the front lines.

Russia’s new 2024 nuclear doctrine lowered its nuclear weapons use threshold. This is very significant because even before this was made public, Russia already had the lowest threshold for nuclear weapons use in the world.

The long-delayed effort to return Russia’s 28,000-ton nuclear-powered battlecruiser to service is finally yielding some results, as the warship’s two nuclear reactors are now online. Moscow claims that it should go back to sea this summer. That remains to be seen.

NATO ally Bulgaria upgrades its airpower with handover of first US-made F-16s as it transitions from Soviet-era aircraft.

Russia launches spacecraft carrying military ‘devices’.

NORTH KOREA THREAT

South Korea orders airports to install bird detection cameras and thermal imaging radars, after an air crash in December last year killed 179 people.

INTERNATIONAL SECURITY

India raises defense budget by nearly 10%, pushes local manufacturing, as the country grapples with multiple security challenges, headlined by Pakistan on its western border and tensions with China to the north.

US MILITARY

F-15 electronic warfare (EW) suite which will protect the Air Force’s F-15E and F-15EX in contested airspace declared ‘effective,’ but the full extent of capabilities in combat is less clear because the Air Force doesn’t want to expose what the system can really do in combat.

Pentagon is still unclear about the lethality of the hypersonic missile that’s at the center of the Army’s Dark Eagle Long Range Hypersonic Weapon (LRHW), which will arm the Navy’s Zumwalt class stealth destroyers and future Block V Virginia class submarines.

Air Force unit commanders to conduct four “standards and readiness reviews” of their troops per year starting March 31, as part of new push for higher standards and stricter enforcement.

Marine Corps passes second straight financial audit as other services fail.

END of PDB

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