12/8/24 National Security and Korean News and Commentary
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National Security News Content:
1. H.R. McMaster: My Travels with Trump
2. Bashar al-Assad, an Ophthalmologist Who Became a Dictator, Is the Last of a Despotic Dynasty
3. Assad’s Rule Collapses in Syria, Raising Concerns of a Vacuum
4. Caught Off Guard: Strategic Surprise in History and Lessons for National Security Strategy.
5. What to Know About the Civil War in Syria
6. Leader of Syria’s biggest rebel faction calls Assad’s fall a ‘victory to the Islamic nation’
7. How an Assassin Escaped One of the Most Surveilled Cities in the World
8. He Investigates the Internet’s Most Vicious Hackers—From a Secret Location
9. Losing Syria Is A ‘Huge Slap In The Face’ For Russia
10. Roughly 900 US Troops Still in Syria as Rebels Close in on Damascus
11. Frontline report: Ukraine destroys Russian S-400 shield to target North Korean training camps in Kursk
12. Blending AI with Human Judgment: Man, Machine, and the Battlefield in Modern Warfare
13. State Department aims to get more career ambassadors in place before 2nd Trump term
14. In the Syrian Regime’s Hour of Need, Its Patron Iran Makes an Exit
15. The Pentagon knows it’s got a drone problem. Here’s what it’s doing about it.
16. Why the Syrian army collapsed so quickly in northern Syria
17. Syria’s Assad resigns and leaves the country after stunning rebel blitz, Russia says
18. Guam: The U.S. Military’s Achilles Heel in War with China?
19. Austin: U.S. Leadership, Alliances Make for a More Secure World
20. This Chinese Drone Company Found a Workaround to Congress’s Ban on Doing Business in the US—Before the Ban Is Even Passed
Korean News Content:
1. A Sidelined Sitting President: South Korea’s Leader Won’t Run the Country
2. ‘Come Back!’: A Surprise Boycott Saves South Korea’s President from Impeachment
3. South Korea’s First Lady Looms Over Her Husband’s Embattled Presidency
4. How Lee Jae-myung and South Korean opposition rallied in defiance of martial law
5. South Korean opposition leader thought martial law announcement was ‘a deepfake’
6. Yoon survives impeachment but Korea’s crisis far from over
7. Yoon right about pro-North Korea influences in South’s parliament
8. South Korea martial law fallout deepens
9. North Korean troops so ‘poorly trained that Putin army yet to throw them into fight’
10. South Korean political chaos all works to Kim Jong Un’s benefit
11. U.S. admiral: No signs of North Korean attack plans amid South’s political unrest
12. Yoon coup a gift to foes at home, bad for solidarity with Japan, US
13. A surreal drama that unfolded in 2024
14. Russia keeps North Korean soldiers away from direct combat, Ukraine’s National Resistance Center claims
15. Zelensky makes bold claim about North Korean soldiers as death toll rises
