Small Wars Journal

10/31/23 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

Tue, 10/31/2023 - 8:23am

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National Security News Content:

1. Top Marine general hospitalized, leaving 3-star in charge

2. Conflict by David Petraeus and Andrew Roberts review — the future of war

3. Special Operations News - October 30, 2023 | SOF News

4. The Bolduc Brief: Interoperability Failures Among Senior Military Leaders in Special Operations and the Conventional Military

5. Why urban warfare in Gaza will be bloodier than in Iraq

6. How Years of Israeli Failures on Hamas Led to a Devastating Attack

7. Patriotism’s Decline Imperils the Military

8.  Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, October 30, 2023

9. Five Facts on the Rising Intolerance in America

10. Harvard’s Double Standard on Free Speech

11. Israel tanks penetrate deep into Gaza, as Hamas hostage video emerges

12. The Primacy of Culture

13. Joe Biden’s Sweeping New Executive Order Aims to Drag the US Government Into the Age of ChatGPT

14. FACT SHEET: President Biden Issues Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence

15. Department of Defense Releases FY 2023 Military Intelligence Program Budget

16. Arming Ukraine is cheap compared to the far higher price of Russian victory

17. Iran Update, October 30, 2023

18. AI Is Already at War By Michèle A. Flournoy

19. From Einsatzgruppen to Hamas: A Historical Continuum of Mobile Mass Murder

20. Japan’s Play for Today: Too Much? Just Right? Or Never Enough?

21. US consumers keep spending despite high prices and their own gloomy outlook. Can it last?

22. Reflections on the October 1993 Battle of Mogadishu | SOF News

23. White House AI exec order raises questions on future of DoD innovation

24. ODNI, Pentagon reveal FY23 intelligence budget at nearly $100 billion

25. US isn’t ready for a war of great powers

26. A Call to Action for the Intelligence Community Following Hamas Terror Attack

27. Inadequate U.S. Patriot Missile Force Size Highlighted By Middle East Crisis

Korean News Content:

1. KEI Announces Appointment of Scott Snyder as the New President & CEO - Korea Economic Institute of America

2. N. Korean defector talks about experience in holding center for forced returnees

3. U.N. voices opposition against forced repatriation of N. Korean defectors in China

4. A Japan court says North Korea is responsible for the abuses of people lured there by false promises

5. Victims lured to North Korea by lies welcome Japan court's ruling against regime

6. S. Korea's top nuclear envoy discusses N. Korea with US think tank officials

7. In Yo-han’s innovation demand creates a stir

8. The Republic of Korea-Australia Security Nexus -

9. Pyongyang's shutdown of overseas embassies sign of sluggish economy: unification ministry

10. North Korea–Russia alliance revives Cold War divisions

11. US stresses opposition to any arms provision to Hamas amid claimed use of N. Korean weapons

12. Kim Jong Un orders military food reserves restored ‘at all costs’

13. South Korea as a Nuclear State: Trade-offs and Choices

14. Defense minister instructs new military chiefs to build ‘overwhelming’ defense posture against enemy

15. Seoul slams N. Korea's money laundering, vows efforts to ban inflow of 'black money'

16. U.S., Chinese diplomats hold video talks on N. Korea-Russia military cooperation, defector repatriation

17. Don't suspend Sept. 19 Inter-Korean Military Agreement

18. S. Korea's homegrown spacecraft to moon project on track: science ministry