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PENTAGON WOKE WATCH
GOOD, BUT SHOULD LET IT ALL DIE (DEI) – Pentagon salaries for diversity, equity, inclusion staff capped at $31K under Cotton, Banks bill. A new bill being pushed by Sen. Tom Cotton and Rep. Jim Banks would cap the salaries of any Pentagon employees working on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI – better known as DIE) initiatives at $31,000.
WORSE THAN ORIGINALLY THOUGHT – MORE ‘MOMMY AND ME’ TIME FOR EVERYONE! – Army’s long-awaited parental leave policy bars local denials. The Army rolled out its tardy parental leave policy Tuesday, expanding maternity leave and sharply increasing the benefit for ‘non-birth parents’ (THEY ARE FATHERS!) as well.
HIDING NEW PARENTAL LEAVE INFORMATION FROM AMERICANS – The latest document the military is hiding behind handling rules: parental leave. By the end of January, the Pentagon was due to brief Congress on whether the military has been abusing a set of document rules, a categorization known as Controlled Unclassified Information, or CUI, to shield non sensitive information from public scrutiny.
WHAT ABOUT OUR HUMAN SUBMARINERS’ PAIN AND SUFFERING? – Navy ends ‘gruesome’ testing on sheep after PETA protests. An animal rights group says that it has successfully lobbied the Navy to end a pair of studies that involved subjecting sheep to conditions that simulated surfacing quickly from a great depth, causing them pain and sometimes leaving the animals paralyzed or dead.
POLITICS
GREAT – PUSH BACK ON THESE CAPRICIOUS, UNCONSTITUTIONAL CHANGES – Veterans sue Biden Justice Dept. over pistol brace restrictions. Authorities contend the accessory allows people to make handguns more lethal. Plaintiffs say the rule violates the Second Amendment.
LET’S MAKE SOME NOISE – Armed Services panel finalizes roster with three new GOP senators. Senate Republicans on Wednesday announced their slate of committee assignments, placing three new members on the Armed Services Committee. The committee will consist of 13 Democrats and 12 Republicans, though the Democratic roster remains unchanged.
NATIONAL SECURITY
SAYS BIDEN’S PERSONAL LAWYER – BUT PLENTY OF TIME TO MOVE OR DESTROY – FBI finds no classified documents at Biden’s Delaware vacation home. The FBI belatedly completed a search of President Joe Biden’s Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, home on Wednesday and found no documents with classified markings, ‘according to Biden’s personal lawyer.’
MORE OF THE SAME? WASTE, FRAUD AND ABUSE – New institute will study how the Defense Department manages itself. To “compete on a global stage,” DOD must get a handle on its management practices, Deputy Defense Secretary says.
GET IT ALL IN THE ORIGINAL BUDGET – Cut down defense spending ‘wish lists,’ lawmakers tell Pentagon. Influential lawmakers from both parties urged the Defense secretary in a letter Tuesday to curtail the department’s submission to Congress of “unfunded priorities lists” — annual requests for billions of dollars in military spending above White House budget proposals.
HOMELAND SECURITY
HE WAS WRONG AND SHOULD DO TIME – BUT DO SIMILAR BLM RIOTERS WHO ATTACKED COPS GET 5 YEARS? – Marine Corps veteran sentenced to 5 years in prison for assaulting police on Jan. 6. Daniel Caldwell, of The Colony, Texas, pleaded guilty last year to assaulting multiple officers with chemical spray during the Capitol riot.
CHINA THREAT
HE IS RIGHT – PODCAST – An Air Force general predicts war with China. An Air Force general is warning of a potential conflict with China by 2025.
We don’t have the missiles to stop China. Time for drone swarms. Despite all the calls to boost production, the U.S. military will be short of key missiles for at least two years. It needs ways to win with what it has now.
Taiwan activates defenses in response to China incursions. Taiwan’s Defense Ministry says 20 Chinese aircraft crossed the central line in the Taiwan Strait that has been an unofficial buffer zone between the sides.
FINALLY – US opens embassy in Solomon Islands to counter China. The United States opened an embassy in the Solomon Islands on Thursday in its latest move to counter China’s push into the Pacific.
FACING CHINA – Austin in Philippines to discuss larger US military presence. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is in the Philippines for talks on deploying larger numbers of U.S. forces and weapons in more Philippine military camps.
A REAL THREAT – Air Force opposes Chinese company’s corn plant for North Dakota. Chinese company Fufeng Group’s planned $700 million facility would be 12 miles from Grand Forks Air Force Base.
RUSSIA THREAT
US accuses Russia of endangering nuclear arms control treaty. Russia’s refusal to allow the resumption of on-the-ground inspections is endangering the New START nuclear treaty and U.S.-Russian arms control overall, the Biden administration charged.
UKRAINE WAR
END NATO SUPPORT FOR UKRAINE? – The argument for why the West should change course on Ukraine. A policy report from the influential RAND Corporation urges the United States to do more to avoid a “long war” in Ukraine.
Putin says military must stop Ukrainian shelling of Russian regions. President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that Russia’s military must stop the shelling of Russian regions from Ukrainian territory, which he said had left many people homeless or without power.
MORE AND MORE – US expected to send Ukraine longer-range smart bombs in next aid package. The weapon is a precision-guided bomb with a range of 94 miles.
Ukraine plans to spend $540 million on drones this year. Ukraine plans to spend about 20 billion hryvnia (U.S. $540 million) on new drones this year, according to the country’s defense minister.
Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 344. At least four people in the Donetsk region have been killed as several villages came under Russian fire, regional Governor Pavlo Kyrylenko said. Russian forces are encircling Bakhmut and are battling to take control of the highway that connects the city to the nearby town of Chasiv Yar, according to Russian-installed officials.
NORTH KOREA THREAT
North Korea warns of ‘toughest reaction’ to allies’ drills. North Korea for decades has described the United States’ combined military exercises with South Korea as rehearsals for a potential invasion.
IRAN THREAT
French forces seize shipment of weapons headed from Iran to Yemen. Officials say the seizure happened in January, with the weapons set for Yemen’s Houthi rebels.
UMMM – JUST SAY THE FRENCH DID IT – US partner forces stop boat smuggling assault rifles, anti-tank missiles from Iran to Yemen. The U.S. partner naval forces last month seized more than 3,000 assault rifles and 23 advanced anti-tank guided missiles on the way from Iran to Yemen, the Pentagon revealed.
INTERNATIONAL SECURITY – NATO, MIDDLE EAST, AFRICA, ASIA, LATIN AMERICA
Jamaica’s prime minister offers troops to address Haiti crisis. Jamaica’s prime minister has said his government is willing to send soldiers and police officers to Haiti as part of a proposed multinational security assistance deployment.
Somalia hosts regional counterterror summit to discuss fighting al-Shabab. Somalia, Kenya, Ethiopia and Djibouti are set to discuss a joint military offensive against the al-Qaeda affiliate.
US, Japanese troops practice jumps and airdrops in Mount Fuji’s foothills. U.S. airmen and Japanese soldiers gathered recently at this airlift hub in western Tokyo to stuff sand, rocks and water into wooden crates ahead of an annual jump by hundreds of airborne troops from both nations.
Navy helicopter squadron completes rare training in Albania. Navy Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 5, assigned to the aircraft carrier George H.W. Bush, conducted inland training in Albania recently.
US MILITARY
DARPA awards contracts for long-range ‘Liberty Lifter’ flying boat design. The Pentagon’s emerging technologies research arm awarded two aviation companies’ contracts to develop seaplanes that would fly less than 100 feet off the ground and carry 90 tons of cargo more than 6,500 nautical miles, the Department of Defense announced.
LONG WAYS AWAY – Navy planning for December 2025 hypersonic missile test off USS Zumwalt. The Navy plans to perform a hypersonic missile test shot off guided-missile destroyer USS Zumwalt in December 2025, a service official said.
END of PDB
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Too bad the American people no longer have any trust in the activities of the DOJ, the FBI or the Biden Crime family. At this point in time, they could all swear that it gets dark when the sun goes down and we would all still think they were lying. They have completely destroyed themselves by their lies and corrupt activities.
The Pentagon DOD is on the wrong path with it’s wokeness in our military, what kind of crap is this anyway.We need hardcore soldiers to win wars, not light weight,mentally deficient,volunteers that can’t cut the muster.Rehire all that were pushed out because they didn;t take the poison shots.They cost big money to train, to be pushed out because of a unconstitutional, order by arrogant, delusional, demented,incompetent,fake,phony,puppet,out of touch with reality.The American people have no trust in this government at all,with all the lying,and propaganda bs, they feed us every day.Go woke,we go broke, and will be .annilated.
The salary limits they are focused on are just for DoD civilian employees.
It is actually much worse. DoD has a full staff office working on DEI, including military members.
Just after the Pentagon 60 day stand down to “root out extremism,” they announced that going forward, the Department of Defense Office for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion will be an integral part of force structure and mission planning. Yep. Gotta make certain that units only deploy with the approved mix of races and self-identified genders. Oh, and planning must be adjusted to avoid offending the sensibilities of minority, Muslim and LGBTQ+++ service members.