MONDAY PDB – The Pentagon has pulled back on its efforts to fight ‘extremism’ in the ranks. Only one of six policy recommendations from December 2021 have been implemented.
GOP attacks forced Pentagon working group on extremism to disband. More than two years after the Countering Extremism Working Group was formed inside the Pentagon, the effort has vanished virtually without a trace.
EXCELLENT – IT WAS MOSTLY A POLITICIZED WITCH HUNT AGAINST CONSERVATIVES.
Team Biden has fabricated this huge bogeyman to whip up racial conflict, recently urging unity “against the poison of white supremacy,” declaring it “the most dangerous terrorist threat to our homeland.”
IT MOST CERTAINLY IS NOT.
MEANWHILE – Tuberville’s white nationalist comments roil military diversity debate. Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s, R-Ala., criticism this past week of efforts to rid America’s military of white nationalists has roiled the ongoing debate over how much the Pentagon should monitor racial attitudes within its ranks.
HIS COMMENTS WERE TAKEN OUT OF CONTEXT – When asked if ‘white nationalists’ should be allowed to enlist and serve in the military. “Well, they call them that. I call them Americans,” he replied.
He meant they aren’t really ‘extremists’ – it’s a loaded term – they are just Americans.
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:
MARINES
SEMPER FI – Body of Marine vet who went missing in Ukraine in 2022 returns home. More than a year after retired Marine Capt. Grady disappeared in southern Ukraine, his remains will be flown home on Friday. RIP, BROTHER.
POLITICS
Hoax alert: tale of homeless vets booted because of immigrants false. A news story blaming White House immigration policies for causing more than 20 homeless veterans to be booted from their temporary shelters is now being denounced as an elaborate hoax.
NATIONAL SECURITY
Amid leak of US secrets, Pentagon hunts how documents left air base. The chief suspect, Jack Teixeira, appears to have acted alone, but Air Force investigators have descended on a quiet corner of Cape Cod
CHINA THREAT
Aircraft carrier USS Nimitz pulls into Japan ahead of G-7 Summit as Chinese warships operate nearby. The Nimitz (CVN-68) pulled into the Japanese port Sasebo Friday as the G-7 conference began in Hiroshima, on Friday.
Philippine army head sees China threat ‘every day in South China Sea.’ “Whenever we fly in our own territorial waters, we are challenged by the Chinese, challenged because they say we are in their territory, when in fact it is our territory,” the commanding general said.
RUSSIA THREAT – UKRAINE WAR
OR HAS IT? – Why Ukraine’s spring offensive still hasn’t begun. For months, Western allies have shipped billions of dollars’ worth of weapons systems and ammunition to Ukraine with an urgency to get the supplies to Kyiv in time for an anticipated spring counteroffensive.
Report: Ukraine is losing 10,000 drones per month. Military and commercial grade UAVs are being used for everything from reconnaissance to direct attacks.
Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 453. As the war enters its 453rd day, we take a look at the main developments.
Ukraine races to forge new Army ahead of offensive. Kyiv is training military recruits to take part in an imminent move on Russian forces.
Wagner Group claims Bakhmut fallen; Ukraine says fighting continues. The head of the Russian private army claimed Saturday that his forces have taken control of the city of Bakhmut after the longest and most grinding battle of the Russia-Ukraine war, but Ukrainian defense officials denied it.
US greenlights F-16 fighter jet training for Ukrainian pilots in Europe. “As the training takes place over the coming months, our coalition of countries participating in this effort will decide when to actually provide jets, how many we will provide, and who will provide them,” a U.S. official wrote.
SPACE THREAT
Gov. Kay Ivey on Space Command: ‘Not taking ‘no’ for an answer.’ At the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville on Friday, Gov. Kay Ivey stepped to the podium and almost shouted as she began her remarks.
INTERNATIONAL SECURITY
US and allied naval commanders in Mideast transit Strait of Hormuz. The Mideast-based chiefs of the U.S., British and French navies transited the strategic strait aboard an American warship.
US MILITARY
THOR hammers drone swarm with high-power microwaves. An experimental directed energy weapon developed by the Air Force Research Laboratory successfully disabled a swarm of drones last month—its first test on such a scale.
New pylon could shift hypersonics testing to B-1, add bomb capacity. Boeing is proposing the Air Force shift the testing of hypersonic missiles from the B-52 to the B-1, using a new pylon for the bomber that could also increase the B-1’s munition-carrying capacity by 50 percent for many existing weapons
B-2 stealth bombers to return to flight after 5-month delay. The Air Force’s B-2 Spirit bombers will resume flying May 22, following five months of safety inspections after one caught fire last December.
END of PDB
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Woke =defeat day 1
Biden IS our biggest disaster.
Don’t fret, our woke military leadership will find some other false cause to divert time from military preparedness and readiness!