PAUL’S DEFENSE BRIEF (PDB) – President Donald Trump’s new defense secretary vows to ‘rapidly’ field emerging tech and capabilities to deter China and others.
It’s time for a new Key West agreement to redefine roles and missions for the US military services like they were first laid down in 1948. These accords have remained in place, despite extraordinary changes in the national-security environment. Service missions need to be revisited in light of these changes.
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:
HOMELAND SECURITY
Military troops provide deportation support and construction efforts at the southern border.
Trump White House releases video of Marines at southern border.
The Trump White House claimed victory in a showdown with Colombia over accepting flights of deported migrants from the US on Sunday, hours after Trump threatened steep tariffs on imports and other sanctions on the longtime U.S. partner currently led by a far-left president.
A federal judge barred Army veteran and Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes from entering Washington, D.C., without the court’s approval after Trump commuted the far-right group leader’s 18-year prison sentence for orchestrating part of the Jan 6 Capitol riot four years ago.
PENTAGON WOKE WATCH
POLITICS
As a Coast Guard harassment survivor, I support Trump’s firing of Admiral Fagan, commandant of the Coast Guard, for mishandling a yearslong investigation into sexual assault and harassment at the Coast Guard Academy that top leadership hid.
WAIT! WHY DID BIDEN LEAVE THEM THERE FOR FOUR YEARS?! Families of US service members who live in Afghanistan are stuck in the country and blocked from relocating to the US due to a Trump executive order. THIS IS LIKELY TEMPORARY.
Trump is mobilizing a new guard of tech billionaires and venture capitalists to overhaul the Pentagon’s multi-billion-dollar space acquisition process. And they want to take on legacy defense contractors.
US POWER OVERSEAS
IRAN THREAT/MIDDLE EAST
Trump’s suggestion that Egypt and Jordan take in Palestinians from the war-ravaged Gaza Strip was met with a hard “no” Sunday from the two US allies along with the Palestinians themselves, who fear Israel would never allow them to return.
RUSSIA THREAT – UKRAINE WAR
Ships, sea drones and AI: How NATO is hardening its defense of critical Baltic undersea cables.
US special forces train with NATO to protect underwater infrastructure.
NORTH KOREA THREAT
SPACE THREAT
Five years after the creation of the Space Force, the US hasn’t quite unlocked the full military potential of space. The US military should be maximizing and diversifying space weapons across the joint force. It should also reverse policies that rule out kinetic counterspace weapons and reassess the military advantages of space-to-ground weapons.
Space Force expects to spend 40% more on commercial SATCOM this year, with nearly $2.4 billion dollars in contracts not only for USSF, but also combatant commands and every other military service.
INTERNATIONAL SECURITY
Trump’s foreign aid suspension: Which African countries stand to lose the most.
Rubio’s criticism of Algeria buoys Berber separatists. The Kabyle independence movement is banking on Trump’s new secretary of state to get behind its political aspirations.
US MILITARY
Could repurposed oil rigs become the Navy’s new floating reloading and logistics hubs?
The Air Force has 1,150 empty fighter pilot billets in 2024, and aviators leaving the service in droves. The fix? More planes and more pilots kept in the reserve.
END of PDB
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Someone PLEASE explain what the value of AI sites across the USA would accomplish? More spying on Americans? I hope not.