WEDNESDAY PDB – The war against woke at the Pentagon is spreading to Veterans Affairs hospitals, cemeteries and memorials.
Ranger vets group objects to removal of some Confederate-linked names from Fort Moore memorial. The foundation charged with fundraising and care for the National Ranger Memorial at the Army's Fort Moore has asked House Republican leaders to reverse the decision to remove some Confederate-linked names from the monument.
DON'T DESECRATE THE MEMORIAL.
LGBTQ+ pride flags at VA facilities in Mississippi draw GOP criticism, protests. All the Republicans in Mississippi's congressional delegation are demanding that the Veterans Administration remove an LGBTQ+ pride flag from the Biloxi National Cemetery, and some residents on the Mississippi Gulf Coast are protesting a pride flag that's flying at a VA hospital.
SIMPLE SOLUTION – REMOVE ALL NON-OFFICIAL, POLITICAL AGENDA FLAGS!
FOR YOUR EYES ONLY – Here's a roundup of today's other top defense stories from national security expert PAUL CRESPO.
Not the President's Daily Brief, but almost as good – PAUL'S DAILY BRIEFING – the PDB:
POLITICS
House Armed Services chair wants China spending bill, less Ukraine aid. Rep. Mike Rogers called for a China defense supplemental spending bill this year and indicated the House would approve Ukraine aid at lower levels.
McCarthy and McConnell show signs of a split on defense spending. Hawks in Congress had hoped to pad the Pentagon's coffers with a supplemental later this year. The Senate GOP leader is on board. The speaker is another story.
NATIONAL SECURITY
Ukraine war shows value of pre-positioned war material in Europe, Pacific. A key lesson from Russia's invasion of Ukraine is the value of having prepositioned war supplies in Europe and exercising in the region regularly, the U.S. Transportation Command (TRANSCOM) commander said.
With new responsibilities, TRANSCOM wargames how to support Air Force in Pacific. Gas is king in the vast expanse of the Pacific.
HOMELAND SECURITY
When are jets allowed to go ‘boom,' AKA, break the sound barrier? One F-16 Fighting Falcon that responded to the unresponsive Cessna made the jump to supersonic speed, though three others were also authorized to do so.
CHINA THREAT
CHINA PUSHING FOR A FIGHT – US, Chinese warships' near miss hints at troubled diplomatic waters. An expert on China-U.S. relations at the University of Maryland explains the context of the recent encounters and how they fit within growing tensions between the two countries.
UK unveils plan to strip Chinese cameras from government buildings. Move on surveillance equipment comes amid pressure from Conservative MPs.
RUSSIA THREAT – UKRAINE WAR
Ukraine dam collapse triggers emergency as Moscow and Kyiv trade blame. The wall of a major dam in southern Ukraine collapsed Tuesday, triggering floods, endangering Europe's largest nuclear power plant and threatening drinking water supplies as both sides in the war scrambled to evacuate residents and blamed each other for the destruction.
Did Russia or Ukraine blow it up?
Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 469. Ukraine and Russia accused each other of destroying the Nova Kakhovka dam in southern Ukraine, while the U.S. said it could not “say conclusively” what had happened.
Russia warns supplying Ukraine with US-built F-16 fighter jets would escalate conflict. The warning comes as the war stretches into its 15th month.
Nazi symbols on Ukraine's front lines highlight thorny issues of history. Ukrainian troops' use of nationalist patches bearing Nazi emblems risks fueling Russian propaganda and spreading imagery that the West has spent a half-century trying to eliminate.
NORTH KOREA THREAT
North Korean youth group donates rocket launchers to military. It “donated” the rocket launchers in a show of “fervent patriotism,” state media reported, as the isolated nation confronts what it sees as growing foreign threats.
INTERNATIONAL SECURITY
S Korea, Japan scramble jets due to China-Russia joint air patrol. China's defense ministry says joint patrol with Russian bomber aircraft was part of exercises that first started in 2019.
US, Japanese, Philippine coast guard ships stage drills. They have staged law enforcement drills in waters near the disputed South China Sea.
US Marines to join allied troops in Australia for combined force exercise. The Marines will kick off a month of field training alongside Australian and Japanese troops next week, a precursor to one of the largest military exercises in the Pacific the next month.
Makin Island ARG, 13th MEU deployment marks amphibious shift to the Pacific. When the Makin Island Amphibious Ready Group returns from deployment this week, it will mark the beginning of a shift in how amphibious forces deploy globally – shifting naval resources away from the Middle East to the Western Pacific.
US sanctions group of people and firms from Iran, China and Hong Kong tied to Iran ballistic program. They are all associated with the alleged development of Iran's ballistic missile program.
US MILITARY
THEN EVERYONE SHOULD BE ACCOUNTABLE – Navy SEAL training commander says ‘perfect storm,' no one person accountable after candidate death. Capt. Brad Geary criticized a Navy report outlining problems with the program.
END of PDB
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Why We Fight Woke alone OK
America’s military has become a joke to the world.. Pentagon is a disgrace..Air Force has shown how unamerican they are. Navy is just as bad. Biden and Milley and Austin are using the troops to put freaks into the military and get rid of straight people. These three people need court martial along with top brass in the Pentagon.. They all have disgrace America.