MONDAY PDB – Trump hints at expanded role for the military within the US. Campaigning in Iowa this year, Donald Trump said he was prevented during his presidency from using the military to quell violence in primarily Democratic cities and states.
Calling New York City and Chicago “crime dens,” the front-runner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination told his audience, “The next time, I'm not waiting. One of the things I did was let them run it and we're going to show how bad a job they do,” he said. “Well, we did that. We don't have to wait any longer.”
Trump has not spelled out precisely how he might use the military during a second term, although he would have wide latitude to call up units.
While deploying the military regularly within U.S. borders would be a departure from tradition, the former president already has signaled an aggressive agenda if he wins, from mass deportations to travel bans imposed on certain Muslim-majority countries.
The Insurrection Act, first crafted in the nation's infancy allows presidents to call on reserve or active-duty military units to respond to unrest in the states, an authority that is not reviewable by the courts. One of its few guardrails merely requires the president to request that the participants disperse.
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:
ISRAEL'S WAR AGAINST HAMAS TERROR
BUYING TIME – Hamas releases a third group of hostages as part of truce and says it will seek to extend the deal. The terrorists released 17 more hostages, including 14 Israelis and the first American, in a third exchange under a four-day truce. Israel released 39 Palestinian prisoners.
PENTAGON WOKE WATCH
What was the military doing at the Anime NYC convention? It's one thing to cosplay a member of the U.S. military on Halloween or at comic-cons. But it's something else entirely for the Army and Marine Corps to disguise themselves as fans of anime.
POLITICS
Republican field for open US Senate seat in Maryland starts to take shape. The latest entrant to the GOP field has pointed to four topics of concern to voters with a precision that spoke to his background. The issues “are the economy, public safety or crime, education and national security,” said retired U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. John Teichert.
NATIONAL SECURITY
US Navy: ‘Non-kinetic effects' will likely decide the next war. The service's new cyber strategy lays out lines of effort for a new era of warfare.
Pentagon's ‘Replicator' gambit may speed decisions on lethal autonomy. Artificial intelligence (AI) employed by the U.S. military has piloted pint-sized surveillance drones in special operations forces' missions and helped Ukraine in its war against Russia. Will they be allowed to kill on their own?
HOMELAND SECURITY
WHY? – Trial of ex-soldier accused of trying to sell secrets to Chinese delayed until 2025. The trial of a former Army sergeant won't start until January 2025, a federal judge has ruled.
Watchdog review compels DOD to refresh its biometrics policy. Some military components are not properly encrypting biometric data, and not verifying that data on federal biometric devices is sanitized at the time of their disposal.
CHINA THREAT
US, Philippines conduct joint patrols in South China Sea near Taiwan. The two allies are increasing military cooperation in the face of growing Chinese aggression in the area.
China calls US a ‘security risk creator' after warship sails near contested islands. Beijing claims the U.S. is pursuing a “hegemony” in the South China Sea after a Navy guided-missile destroyer steamed near a chain of islands there to dispute China's unlawful restrictions.
This US bomber is why China suddenly wants to talk about nukes and AI. The Air Force's super-secret B-21 Raider stealth bomber quietly made its first flight in California on Nov. 10, at not much more than tree-top level.
RUSSIA THREAT – UKRAINE WAR
Russia launches largest drone attack since start of Ukraine invasion. Russia on Saturday launched its most intense drone attack on Ukraine to date, targeting the capital city for over six hours.
Russia destroys Ukrainian drones including over Moscow, defense ministry says. Russia has foiled more than 20 Ukrainian drone attacks over Russian territory in the past day.
Ukraine aims a major drone attack at Crimea as Russia tries to capture a destroyed eastern city. It launched one of the biggest drone attacks on the Moscow-annexed Crimean Peninsula since the Russian invasion.
IRAN THREAT
US Navy seizes attackers who held Israel-linked tanker. Missiles from rebel-controlled Yemen follow. Armed assailants seized and later released a tanker linked to Israel off the coast of Yemen on Sunday before being apprehended by the Navy. Two Houthi ballistic missiles then landed near a U.S. warship aiding the tanker in the Gulf of Aden.
USS Thomas Hudner shoots down ‘multiple one-way attack drones' in the Red Sea. This is the second time the warship has intercepted such drones in the past eight days.
US forces came under attack 4 times in Iraq and Syria on Thanksgiving. US and coalition forces in Iraq and Syria came under attack four separate times.
Iranian-backed group in Iraq vows to expand conflict if US airstrikes continue. It may strike additional U.S. targets after U.S. warplanes killed multiple militants in response to the first use of short-range ballistic missiles against U.S. forces at Al-Asad Air Base earlier this week.
NORTH KOREA THREAT
N Korea had Russian help getting spy satellite to orbit, S Korea says. Russian support likely enabled North Korea to put a spy satellite into orbit for the first time this week and will know whether it is functioning properly by early next week.
SPACE THREAT
How these Guardians avoid satellite collisions at 17,000 miles per hour. There are tens of thousands of manmade objects in space, many of which are moving in low earth orbit at more than 17,000 miles per hour.
Space Force is going to track “abnormal” objects in outer space. In space, no one can hear you scream. But Space Force might be able to track you screaming.
US POWER OVERSEAS
Kadena Air Base flexes airpower with Air Force and Navy aircraft in elephant walk. The two services contributed aircraft to an impressive 33-plane “elephant walk” on the runway in Japan on Nov. 21.
US Marines from new rotational force kick off coastal defense drills in Indonesia. The force is practicing coastal defense in Indonesia, the latest sign of strengthening ties between the U.S. and this predominantly Muslim nation bordering the contested South China Sea.
US Marines join Finnish-led drills in Baltic Sea, with Russia watching. Marines are among more than 4,000 allied personnel participating in a Finland-led military exercise that is drawing Russian concerns over NATO's growing might in the Baltic Sea.
INTERNATIONAL SECURITY
A newly formed alliance between coup-hit countries in Africa's Sahel is seen as tool for legitimacy. Three West African nations led by military juntas met this week to strengthen a newly formed alliance.
US MILITARY
12 things we learned from the new B-21's taxi tests and first flight. Images circulating of the taxi tests and first flight were taken by private photographers staking out Air Force Plant 42 at Palmdale, Calif.
US troops still train on weapons with known risk of brain injury. Pentagon researchers say weapons like shoulder-fired rockets expose troops to blast waves far above safety limits, but they remain in wide use.
END of PDB
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