Dave Patterson, Author at Liberty Nation News

Are the ten senators taking Esper to task in the right – or just full of hot air?

Ten United States senators – Democrats, every one – sent to Secretary of Defense Mark Esper an eight-page...

America’s major competitors – Russia and China – are restarting Cold War-like encroachments, and what better place than the Arctic?

“[W]hoever holds the Arctic, holds the world. I think it is the most important strategic place in the world.” –...

Congressional Budget Process – Approve It, Pay for It

Remember how the first part of this series outlined the disciplined and structured process to develop the Defense...

What Americans should know about how their taxes are spent on defense.

Building the Defense Budget Tired of binge-watching Netflix? Exhausted by trying to find the progressive...

Whatever Kim’s fate, North Korean aspirations will remain the same.

The wires hummed with news that the North Korean dictator and “blessed leader” Kim Jong-un was critically ill...

The Chinese have effectively decimated America's networks of human intelligence sources in that country

The U.S. government may not have leaped into action upon hearing the warnings of an impending pandemic. Yet,...

Air transportability isn’t a high priority for the Army’s new troop carrier – but it should be.

It seems simple enough: Being there requires getting there. Since the United States first engaged military...

It’s easy to say “I told you so” – but the IC failed to deliver.

Former members of the Intelligence Community (IC) are lining up to say, “We told you so, a pandemic is coming.” ...

Change is afoot.

Will the Coronavirus pandemic change the way the Department of Defense (DoD) operates? Recently, media...

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