Dave Patterson, Author at Liberty Nation

Dave Patterson Articles 92

Dave Patterson is a retired US Air Force pilot and the former Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense, Comptroller. In addition to Liberty Nation, his articles have also appeared in The Federalist.

National Security, the Defense Budget, and You: A Primer (Part 2 of 2)

By: Dave Patterson April 27, 2020Articles, Economic Affairs, Military Affairs, Politics

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Remember how the first part of this series outlined the disciplined and structur... Read more

National Security, the Defense Budget, and You: A Primer – Part 1

By: Dave Patterson April 26, 2020Articles, Economic Affairs, Intelligence, Military Affairs, Politics

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Building the Defense Budget Tired of binge-watching Netflix? Exhausted by trying... Read more

Does NK’s Balance of Power Shift With Kim’s Health?

By: Dave Patterson April 22, 2020Articles, Healthcare, Politics, Social Issues, World

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The wires hummed with news that the North Korean dictator and “blessed leader” K... Read more

To Be Effective in Battle, You Have to Get There

By: Dave Patterson April 18, 2020Articles, Intelligence, Military Affairs, Politics

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It seems simple enough: Being there requires getting there. Since the United Sta... Read more

Intelligence Community Says It Warned of Coronavirus – It Didn’t

By: Dave Patterson April 17, 2020Articles, Economic Affairs, Healthcare, Intelligence, Politics, Social Issues, World

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Former members of the Intelligence Community (IC) are lining up to say, “We told... Read more

Coronavirus Has Changed the World – What About the DOD?

By: Dave Patterson April 16, 2020Articles, Intelligence, Military Affairs, Politics, Social Issues

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Will the Coronavirus pandemic change the way the Department of Defense (DoD) ope... Read more

The USS Theodore Roosevelt Affair: Only Questions Remain

By: Dave Patterson April 10, 2020Articles, Healthcare, Intelligence, Military Affairs, Politics

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When the commander of a deployed aircraft carrier is relieved in the middle of a... Read more

Coronavirus Criticism: Defense Secretary Mark Esper Under Attack

By: Dave Patterson April 04, 2020Articles, Healthcare, Media, Politics, Social Issues

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In the middle of the Department of Defense support to America during the Wuhan C... Read more

President Trump was Right: We Need a Space Force

By: Dave Patterson April 03, 2020Articles, Intelligence, Military Affairs, Politics

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Space is now a threat-based national security domain. The 1967 Outer Space Treat... Read more

Competing Threats: North Korea Missile Testing and COVID-19

By: Dave Patterson March 31, 2020Articles, Intelligence, Military Affairs, Politics, Social Issues, World

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Pandemic or missile threats from North Korea — that’s what the Unite... Read more

General Motors, Where’s Your World War II Spirit?

By: Dave Patterson March 29, 2020Articles, Business, Politics, Trump Administration

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The current CEO of General Motors (G.M.) is no William Knudsen. When called upon... Read more

Fact Checking the Fact Checkers: What AP Got Wrong

By: Dave Patterson March 27, 2020Articles, Healthcare, Media, Politics, Social Issues

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The Associated Press recently ran an article titled “AP FACT CHECK: Trump claims... Read more

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