FRIDAY PDB – Republicans need to keep fighting the Pentagon's woke agenda. Presidential candidate Ron DeSantis backs Tuberville on military holds, denounces Pentagon abortion policy. “Day one as commander-in-chief, that policy will go out the window,” he said.
GOOD CALL. NO TAXPAYER-FUNDED ABORTION TRAVEL.
BUT JOE BIDEN'S RADICAL ARMY SECRETARY WON'T BUDGE – No plans to change abortion policy despite GOP demand, Army secretary says. The Defense Department has no plans to stop covering the travel costs of female troops who seek abortions across state lines, despite protests from a Republican senator who has blocked hundreds of military promotions over the issue, Army Secretary Christine Wormuth said on Thursday.
WHAT ABOUT BLM SUPPORTERS? – White nationalists shouldn't serve in the military. Even a small number of extremists in the ranks can cause harm far disproportionate to their number.
BECAUSE THEY WERE STUPID, POLITICIZED AND UNNECESSARY – The military ordered big steps to stop extremism. Two years later, it shows no results. USA TODAY identified 20 reforms proposed by the Defense secretary and a group he assigned to the task. Today, many steps are stalled or inactive, and the most important reforms never happened.
DON'T LUMP IN WOMEN WITH TRANSGENDERS – Veterans and LGBT groups petition VA to follow anti-discrimination law. The groups, as well as a Democratic senator, are calling on the Department of Veterans Affairs to better prevent what they describe as pervasive discrimination against women and gender-nonconforming veterans by issuing formal anti-discrimination regulations. JUST SAY NO.
FOR YOUR EYES ONLY – Here's a roundup of today's other top defense stories from conservative national security expert PAUL CRESPO.
Not the President's Daily Brief, but almost as good – PAUL'S DAILY BRIEFING – the PDB:
NATIONAL SECURITY
OF COURSE, HE DOES – Biden's NSA, CYBERCOM nominee backs foreign spy law as ‘irreplaceable.' Joe Biden's nominee to lead both U.S. Cyber Command and the National Security Agency threw his weight behind the renewal of a much-debated foreign surveillance authority that expires at the end of the year. (RELATED: GOP Senator Drops FBI Bombshell On Biden)
HOMELAND DEFENSE
Chinese spy balloon exposed gaps in US ability to detect threats, NORAD commander says. “We were not looking for a high-altitude balloon at that time,” Gen. Glen VanHerck said. “Our radars are capable of seeing it, but we were filtering out that data.”
CHINA THREAT
China to hold naval drills with Russia despite ongoing Ukraine war. China has dispatched navy ships in preparation for joint exercises with Russia's sea forces, in a sign of Beijing's continuing support for Moscow's invasion of neighboring
Australian multinational military exercise demonstrates unity to China. Carlos Del Toro said Friday that the major multinational military training exercise launched in Australia sends a message to China that America's allies are cooperating to defend their security and democratic values.
RUSSIA THREAT – UKRAINE WAR
Third night of Russian retaliatory strikes aimed at Odesa. Russia pounded Ukraine's southern cities with drones and missiles for a third consecutive night Thursday, keeping Odesa in the Kremlin's crosshairs.
Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 513. U.S.-supplied cluster munitions are in Ukrainian hands and being deployed in the field against Russian forces. The munitions were having an impact on Russian defensive formations and maneuvering.
Russian fronts, criminal gangs got US weapons sent to Ukraine last year. Last year, a Russian-led organized crime group in Ukraine was able to obtain weapons shipped to the country for the war effort — including a grenade launcher and machine gun — with the intent of destabilizing the country.
Russian navy rehearses firing rockets at ships in Black Sea after warning to Ukraine. Its Black Sea Fleet practiced firing rockets at surface targets in a live fire exercise, two days after it warned that ships heading to Ukraine's Black Sea ports could be considered military targets.
Russia's Wagner mercenaries launch joint training with Belarusian military near Poland's border. This, almost a month after their short-lived rebellion against Moscow. Poland has built up troops on its border with Belarus in response to the war games. (RELATED: Putin Announces Brutal New Commander – Millions Start To Worry)
IRAN THREAT
US sending more Navy ships, Marines to Gulf to counter Iran. The deployment is the latest move to increase security in the region in the wake of Iranian attempts to seize commercial ships there.
NORTH KOREA THREAT
North Korea makes nuclear threat over US sub in South. It threatened possible nuclear retaliation over the U.S. military docking one of its nuclear-armed submarines in South Korea days earlier.
Still no response from North Korea about wayward US soldier. Nothing yet on the American soldier who bolted across the heavily armed border, underscoring that the serviceman's prospects for a quick release are unclear at a time of high tensions and inactive communication channels.
INTERNATIONAL SECURITY
3-to-5 years from now is the danger time when the US could face both China and Russia. RUSI's Justin Bronk has an idea of what Europe should be doing to help the US in the Indo-Pacific, and it doesn't include sending the Charles De Gaulle carrier.
US Navy ‘operationalizes' drones in 4th Fleet exercise. It leveraged air and surface drones throughout its two-week UNITAS 2023 naval exercise near Latin America, the first major event since service leadership announced the region would host the sea service's second unmanned operations hub. (RELATED: ‘Area 52' – New Secret Test Area In Lake Michigan For US Naval Drones?)
US airstrike kills 5 al-Shabaab militants in Somalia. The militants were killed in a “collective self-defense airstrike” in Somalia, US Africa Command announced.
No C2, no problem: Aeromedical evacuation crews train for comms failure in Pacific exercise. They practiced operating with degraded or denied communications as part of Mobility Guardian 23, a joint, multinational training exercise involving 70 aircraft and 3,000 personnel currently ongoing across the Indo-Pacific.
US MILITARY
I MIGHT SUPPORT THIS – Senate bill renews effort to enlist non-citizens in the military. The bill will allow the Pentagon to enlist people who have lived in the U.S. for at least five years, including those who entered the country unlawfully as children and are now protected by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program.
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