Small Wars Journal

3/6/24 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

Wed, 03/06/2024 - 10:49am

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National Security News Content:


1. Our dysfunctional relationship with information warfare starts with leadership

2. Top Marine general returns to work, 4 months after cardiac arrest

3. Military Times survey: ‘Alarming’ percentage accept conspiracies

4. Outgunned in the Drone Fight: The U.S. Military Is Failing to Adopt the Next Machine Gun

5. How the US Army Can Close its Dangerous—and Growing—Small Drone Gap

6. A Moment of Truth for the Army's Chief Laser Weapon

7. Air Force Employee Indicted for Unlawful Disclosure of Classified National Defense Information

8. Retired Army officer may have leaked secrets to honeypot spy

9. The Narrative of Nuclear Deterrence: Shaping Strategy in an Uncertain World

10. Pentagon's budget process needs 'fundamental restructuring,' panel says

11. Ukraine’s first lady declines Biden’s State of the Union invite

12. Israel–Hamas War (Iran) Update, March 5, 2024

13. Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, March 5, 2024

14. Why getting more female troops into Special Operations will take time

15. LTG (Ret) James M. Dubik Writing Fellows Program

16. Opinion | The U.S. can’t afford to wait to fully embrace the world’s most effective weapon

17. Nine Things Western Analysts Got Wrong About Russia and Its Invasion of Ukraine

18. Qatar Positions Itself as Special Operations Training Hub

19. America’s New Twilight Struggle With Russia

20. The Growing Limits to Formulating US Grand Strategy in an Ever More Complex World

21. TikTok Targeted In New National Security Bill On Adversary Owned Apps

22. The Houthis Are Very, Very Pleased

23. US Green Berets will permanently deploy to Taiwan

24. FOLLOW-UP: The UN won’t reform until its employees lose diplomatic immunity - Washington Examiner

25. On this day in history, March 5, 1966, patriotic song 'The Ballad of the Green Berets' hits No. 1

Korean News Content:

1. U.S. nuclear envoy underlines need for 'interim steps' toward ultimate N. Korea denuclearization

2. Public activities of N. Korean leader, key officials jump 50 pct: report

3. Russia-North Korea 'partnership' could have long-lasting repercussions, NSC official warns

4. On tense Korean peninsula, playing a game of ‘Waiting for Trump’

5. North Korea is arming Russia and threatening war with South Korea

6. FM Cho stresses joint response to N.K. provocations in talks with U.S. think tank experts

7. How 'Titanic' encouraged defections from North Korea

8. S. Korea seeking to establish ground-based military rocket launch site

9. Striking male residents to start military service next year if resignations accepted: official

10. Hardwired for propaganda: North Korean homes inspected for working speakers

11. North Korean political prisoners forced to work at nuke sites: defector

12. <Inside N. Korea> Fights and even robberies: The authorities troubled by groups of ex-soldiers…Soldiers are placed in construction teams to reintegrate into society… However, men who serve for 8 years miss out on their youth

13. Ex-defense chief banned from travel over Marine's death prior to appointment as ambassador: sources

14. Real or not? What to know about new 'superconductor' claim

15. Experts suggest North Korea's recent silence indicates depleted weapons inventories

16. North Korea cracks down on grain vendors in Hyesan

17. N. Korean official’s death in China leads to increased ideological reviews of workers