PAUL’S DEFENSE BRIEF (PDB) – As Beijing accelerates its nuclear buildup and Moscow brandishes its nuclear weapons against NATO, there’s an opportunity to leverage America’s overseas nuclear weapons deployments to check Russian and Chinese nuclear threats.
France is making noise about expanding a nuclear umbrella to other European nations. Poland and South Korea are publicly calling for Washington to deploy U.S. nuclear weapons on their soil and Sweden has announced its willingness to host U.S. nuclear weapons in wartime.
The U.S. stations more nuclear weapons overseas than any other country. It should use an international desire for nuclear weapons as geopolitical bargaining chips against China and Russia, write two nuclear experts.
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
HOMELAND SECURITY
PENTAGON WOKE WATCH
DOD has officially eliminated all DEI jobs, to comply with White House executive orders. But Congress had already much of that last year.
POLITICS
Marine awarded the Medal of Honor for heroism in Afghanistan who later became a sharp critic of the Biden administration over its chaotic withdrawal, has reenlisted in the in the Marine Corps Reserve now that Trump is back.
With a few hours to spare before Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni tackled the issue of defense spending with Trump, her finance minister announced Italy’s military spending would hit 2% of GDP this year.
US POWER OVERSEAS
For the first time, Air Force B-1B bombers are in Japan for a Bomber Task Force rotation. The deployment comes as six B-2 stealth bombers are stationed in Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean.
Watch NATO allied forces tear through drones during exercise in Croatia.
CHINA THREAT
The best way to deter China from invading Taiwan is the US and Taipei to work together. The U.S. needs Taiwan to hold on and hold out long enough for the US military to arrive in force.
RUSSIA THREAT – UKRAINE WAR
IRAN THREAT/MIDEAST
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NORTH KOREA THREAT
SPACE THREAT
INTERNATIONAL SECURITY
Containerized missile launchers could help close Australia’s air and missile defense gaps. They can also offer Australia’s armed forces new ways to engage targets on land, sea, and air.
It’s been six years since the US removed Turkey from the international F-35 project due to Ankara’s purchase of Russian S-400 air defense systems, but now, with Trump in power, Turkey appears to see an opening to return to the F-35 fold.
In first, British Army successfully tested a radio-wave weapon to knock out drone swarms.
US MILITARY
Navy Secretary says need for new shipbuilding is a ‘national emergency’.
The Navy wants a Louisiana shipyard to build the first hull for the Landing Ship Medium (LSM) program as part of a plan to find an off-the-shelf design to support the Marine Corps’ new island-hopping regiments. It also wants the data rights for a Dutch tank landing ship used by international navies.
DOD wants communications tech to enable special ops commandos’ drone swarms.
END of PDB
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