Dave Patterson, Author at Liberty Nation News

If China thinks the U.S. isn’t ready to take action, they’re woefully misinformed.

What is clearly an information war with China over the Wuhan Coronavirus pandemic becomes something more serious...

Why the defense budget may be severely afflicted by the Coronavirus.

Inside Washington, defense budget watchers and pundits predict sharp cutbacks in the Department of Defense (DoD)...

The 75th anniversary of victory over the Axis looks a lot different in the face of Coronavirus.

"It may seem a paradox to the uninitiated, but the soldier, by choice or the dictates of his draft board, is a...

Russia is getting involved in Libya. Could this spell danger for America?

"More dangerous than ISIS," says Marine Corps General Thomas Waldhauser, the Commander of U.S. Africa Command....

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...

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