by Dave Patterson | Jan 10, 2024 | Articles, Military Affairs, Opinion
On Monday, Jan. 8, Defense Department spokesman Maj. Gen. Patrick Ryder took the podium to speak to the Pentagon press corps about Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and his secret absence from duty. The brief was intended to clarify why his hospitalization was kept...
by Dave Patterson | Jan 8, 2024 | Articles, Good Reads, Military Affairs, Opinion
The Pentagon was without a resident Defense Secretary for almost a week – and no one knew. According to reports from inside the beltway, the highly unusual situation was made all the more peculiar because Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin III was in the hospital, and...
by Dave Patterson | Apr 18, 2023 | Articles, Good Reads, Intelligence, Opinion
[Editor’s note: In the wake of the latest national security breach, in which classified Pentagon documents related to the war in Ukraine were disseminated online, Liberty Nation’s National Security Correspondent Dave Patterson digs into how America’s...
by Dave Patterson | Feb 10, 2023 | Articles, Good Reads, Military Affairs, Opinion
Details surrounding the Chinese intelligence-gathering balloon are becoming harder and harder to come by. After learning of a 14-story high, white Chinese balloon loaded with sensors and other surveillance gear moving lazily across the skies of the Aleutian Islands,...
by Dave Patterson | Dec 12, 2022 | Articles, Opinion, Politics
Congress is giving the American taxpayers a warning. It is once again not going to do its job. The United States is currently operating under a Continuing Resolution (CR), a stopgap funding bill passed in September because Congress could not pass an appropriations...