FRIDAY PDB – Wokeness at Pentagon entails pushing politicalized agendas, discriminatory ‘diversity’ programs, as well as taxpayer funded abortion services, and radical sexual agendas, including transgenderism. No wonder no one wants to join.
BUT WOKE INSANITY EXISTS IN UK, TOO – RAF diversity targets discriminated against white men. Initiatives to increase the numbers of women and people from ethnic minorities in the Royal Air Force (RAF) led to unlawful discrimination against white males, report finds.
MEANWHILE, THE SUPREME COURT DROPPED THE BALL HERE – Service academies exempt from Supreme Court ruling against discriminatory affirmative action. “The potentially distinct interests” of service academies was a reason Chief Justice John Roberts cited as to not yet address their admissions practices.
THAT’S NONSENSE. THERE SHOULD BE NO DISCRIMINATION AT ACADEMIES EITHER.
AND THIS IS A FIGHT WORTH HAVING – Abortion debate could snarl Congress’ work on the defense budget. The issue will be a key point of friction in the upcoming work on defense appropriations and authorization bills.
WOKENESS IS HURTING – The military recruiting crisis: Even veterans don’t want their children to join. Pentagon scrambles to retain the main pipeline for new service members as disillusioned families steer young people away.
EXCEPT MAYBE THE MARINES – NOT AS WOKE – Marines on target for active, Reserve recruiting and retention goals. As of June, the Corps has hit 110% of its 2023 retention goal.
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:
NATIONAL SECURITY
Pentagon budget for 2024 includes ‘briefing’ on nuclear microreactors for Guam. The U.S. government is considering nuclear microreactors to power its Pacific-island fortress.
HOMELAND DEFENSE
NORAD, allies practice intercepting B-1s returning from Europe. The U.S. and its allies intercepted American B-1 bombers coming across the Atlantic toward North America, in a NORAD-led exercise simulating an enemy attack on June 26.
HOMELAND SECURITY
SIMPLY DON’T BELIEVE IT – TEAM BIDEN SPIN – DoD: Chinese spy balloon did not collect, transmit data over the US. The Pentagon said Thursday that the surveillance craft that flew across the entire continental U.S. for 11 days earlier this year did not collect any data during its flight.
Arkansas National Guard deploys to US southern border. It deployed Thursday.
CHINA THREAT
SCARE TACTICS – US base agreement makes Philippines a target for China, former president warns. Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte says the Chinese ambassador to Manila told him the country would be a target if America launched attacks on China from bases in the islands.
Taiwan says 11 Chinese aircraft crossed the Taiwan Strait median line. They crossed the unofficial barrier between the two sides on Friday morning as China ramps up military pressure on the democratic island.
Are cheap drones the answer to tension in the Taiwan Strait? The more we learn about the war in Ukraine, the more we come to know that drones will play an increasingly important role on the modern battlefield.
RUSSIA THREAT – UKRAINE WAR
Russian general believed to be detained in aftermath of Wagner mutiny. Gen. Sergei Surovikin (‘Gen. Armageddon’), the deputy commander of the Russian group of forces fighting in Ukraine, is believed to have been detained.
Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 492. Wagner mercenary force chief Yevgeny Prigozhin has been told that his fighters will no longer take part in Russia’s war in Ukraine after he refused to sign contracts to bring his private army under the control of the Russian defense ministry.
Belarus leader welcomes Wagner forces, but others see them as a threat. Belarusian opposition and guerrilla activists call Wagner fighters a threat to the country.
NATO leaders to parse Putin’s weakness in Wagner mutiny aftermath. All eyes are on NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the European Union (EU) summit.
US considers long-range missiles to bolster Ukraine. Officials see new urgency after long reluctance to provide advanced missile systems.
NORTH KOREA THREAT
US B-52 bomber joins drills with South Korea amid North Korea tension. The bomber took part in military exercises with South Korea on Friday, in the latest show of force following North Korea’s failed launch of a spy satellite.
INTERNATIONAL SECURITY
Deployed forces in Somalia leave US in ‘lopsidedly militaristic’ position, report says. A think tank details the behind-the-scenes debate that led the White House to reverse former President Donald Trump’s decision to remove all 700 U.S. troops out of the east African country during the last days of his administration.
Suspected car bomb explodes in Mexican city amid cartel turf war. At least three members of Mexico’s National Guard were wounded in the blast, which took place in the city of Celaya.
US MILITARY
CRITICAL DANGER – New study: USAF needs big cash infusion to ward off fighter fleet ‘collapse.’ Without a large corrective investment, the Air Force’s aged fighter force will “collapse” soon due to its small size, lack of training in high-end warfare, low availability, and chronic shortage of pilots and maintainers.
Pressed to prove value of amphibious ships, Marines seek to add drones. The U.S. Navy’s amphibious ships are as much of a Swiss Army knife as the Marine expeditionary units that deploy aboard them.
Fort Bliss orders its soldiers to take leave. Yes, really. Beginning October 2023, all Fort Bliss soldiers will be required to take a mandatory leave of at least fourteen days.
THE HELP IS THERE – TAKE IT – PTSD doesn’t mean you’re weak, or a monster. “I was only 17 when I volunteered to go to war, loaded with youthful naivete that meant I never expected to bear witness to that kind of cruelty and carnage,” says this veteran.
GOD BLESS HIM AND HIS WIFE – HE WAS A TRAILBLAZER AND HERO – Homer Hogues, among the last surviving members of all-black WWII squadron ‘Tuskegee Airmen,’ dies 2 days after the death of his wife. He was 96. He died this week in Dallas.
END of PDB
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Do I get a say about where my tax dollars go? I absolutely do not want to fund abortions. An abortion without good cause is murder and murder is the one sin that God will NOT forgive. So please, do not put my dollars in that category.
Gonna effect morale & readiness alone
Bad
End this DoD Now
Increased funding to globalists, planned parenthood criminal organization = less globalist puppet, demonrat criminal voters .
god and his globalists and his demonrat criminal party and usps criminal organization don’t care or rely on their demonrat criminal voters, god and his globalists and his demonrat criminal party and usps criminal organization simply project their demonrat criminal party and rino criminal party the winner .
Need to get Trump Sanitation & Pest Extermination Services back in charge of the D.C. area, so that deep house cleaning and sterilization may commence.
Long past time Pentagon was temporarily halted and cleaned up ! They helped create this war and others – that’s what they have become – War Mongers in place of protectors and a deterrent to war.