THURSDAY PDB – We now have yet another (unpopular, likely ignored and soon-to-be-forgotten) study showing major issues with women serving in large numbers in the military. This study shows that female soldiers are far more likely to be diagnosed with mental issues in combat zones than men. Even if one accounts for women perhaps being more willing to seek treatment, the gap is huge.
This is also the case of rapes and sexual assaults, which are rampant in the U.S. military.
Meanwhile, radical left-wing Democrats want to slash the defense budget by $100 billion to fund ‘spread the wealth' programs and grow the socialist welfare state.
FOR YOUR EYES ONLY – Here's a roundup of those and other developing stories.
Not the President's Daily Brief, but almost as good – PAUL'S DAILY BRIEFING – the PDB:
PENTAGON WOKE WATCH
ALSO FAR MORE LIKELY TO BE RAPED OR SEXUALLY ASSAULTED – Female soldiers twice as likely to be diagnosed with mental health conditions in theater than males, study finds. Female U.S. Army soldiers were diagnosed with a mental health condition at more than twice the rate of male troops while deployed to a combat theater, and they exceeded the rate for males for all 12 of the mental health categories examined, a new study found.
NATIONAL SECURITY
YES. I WROTE ABOUT THAT DAYS AGO – Pentagon spent at least $1.5 million on missiles to down three likely benign civilian high-altitude objects. Defense officials are still analyzing debris from the fourth object, a Chinese surveillance balloon.
A global divide on the Ukraine war is deepening. Beyond the West, the world is far from united on the issues raised by the Ukraine war and Russia often gets a sympathetic hearing in the Global South.
DEFENSE BUDGET AND POLITICS
Progressives (aka FAR-LEFT-WING DEMOCRATS) propose bill to slash defense budget by $100 billion. A pair of progressive lawmakers on Wednesday proposed a bill to slash the Defense Department's budget by $100 billion and reallocate the socialist welfare state.
HOMELAND DEFENSE
Here's your first look at that Chinese spy balloon. The multi-ton payload that was attached to a Chinese spy balloon that floated across much of the U.S. earlier this month looked like an oversized, suspended satellite, according to a photo released by the Pentagon.
HOMELAND SECURITY
Legislation introduced to ban drones made by China, other countries identified as national security threats. Sens. Mark Warner, D-Va., and Rick Scott, R-Fla., recently introduced the American Security Drone Act of 2023, which would prevent federal agencies from purchasing commercial drones or unmanned aircraft systems that are made in China or any entities “subject to influence or control” by China.
CHINA THREAT
US eyes detailing Beijing's potential arms aid to Russia. The Biden administration is considering releasing intelligence it believes shows that China is weighing whether to supply weapons to support Russia's war in Ukraine, U.S. officials said.
TO FACE CHINA – Coast Guard to triple western-Pacific deployments, policy chief says. The small maritime service is contending with data and connectivity challenges as it looks to expand its presence in the Pacific.
RUSSIA THREAT – UKRAINE WAR
Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 365. Joe Biden, speaking in Warsaw on Wednesday, promised that the U.S. “will defend literally every inch of NATO”, the military alliance that includes some Eastern European countries bordering Russia. Meanwhile, Russian leader Vladimir Putin said Chinese leader Xi Jinping would visit Russia, adding the two countries' relations had reached “new frontiers.”
NORTH KOREA THREAT
US, Japan, South Korea hold ballistic missile defense drills after North Korean launches. The U.S., Japan and South Korea carried out a trilateral Ballistic Missile Defense drill in the Sea of Japan Wednesday in response to North Korean missile launches Saturday and Monday.
SPACE THREAT
Space Force may hire companies to service orbiting satellites. The U.S. Space Force is developing a plan for a satellite refueling and servicing capability that takes advantage of technology being developed by commercial space companies, according to the head of the service's mobility enterprise.
INTERNATIONAL SECURITY
Mexico Congress approves law giving armed forces airspace monitoring duties. Mexico's Congress on Wednesday approved a law giving the nation's armed forces a dominant role in airspace surveillance and defense, a measure proponents say is vital to national sovereignty and security.
At least 11 Palestinians killed, 100 wounded in Israeli raid in the West Bank. Israeli forces killed at least 11 Palestinians and wounded more than 100 Wednesday in a daytime raid in the West Bank city of Nablus, Palestinian officials said. The operation, the deadliest such raid in years.
Latest US airstrike in Somalia kills 7 suspected al-Shabaab fighters. The U.S. military has launched six airstrikes and one special operations raid against an ISIS leader in Somalia so far in 2023.
US MILITARY
Air Force expands cancer review of nuclear missile personnel. The Air Force's review of cancers among its nuclear missile corps will include all personnel who worked on, guarded, supported or operated the nation's ground-based warheads, Air Force Global Strike Command announced.
LOOK, MA – NO PIER – Marines to begin testing leased vessel for pier-less operations. The service is leasing three commercial Stern Landing Vehicles as it waits for the Landing Ship Medium to arrive.
END of Paul's Daily Briefing
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God, made them Male & Female, if there was no difference in sexes, he would not have made them so. Women bear the children and keep the home. Men support the women and children. Not so hard to understand!
No surprise.
Because we women like it or not are made much different we are not made to do certain things same as men they aren’t made to nurse, they are made to protect defend. We are to made for raising children but now a days we are failing badly seem to want to be something we are Not the hell with the kids, husband, home, look what has happened to families, children we are the ones to teach our kids respect, truth, honor and God but now it seems they don’t care it is such a mess most these kids need a good butt whipping but start with the parents they need a good butt kicking