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12/19/24 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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12.20.2024 at 01:53am

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National Security News Content:

1. Special Operations Chief Details Irregular Warfare Place in Defense Strategy
2. Special ops leaders eye alarming levels of adversary collaboration
3. How Memoirs by American Officials Leave the CIA Out of U.S. Policy in Burma
4. 2024 China Military Power Report
5. What the Pentagon’s New Report on Chinese Military Power Reveals About Capabilities, Context, and Consequences
6. Regional Basing of Security Force Assistance Brigades (SFABs)
7. Army will trim 5% of general-officer jobs in coming years, chief’s spokesman says
8. What’s at risk if Congress doesn’t fund the government by Friday night
9. Countering Chinese Deception in Modern Military Operations
10. The US defence industrial base can no longer reliably supply Europe
11. Trump Signals Jones Act Policy Will Stay the Course
12. State Department ‘censor’ office finds lifeline
13. Congress demands answers on low testosterone issues among special operators
14. China’s Mosaic Warfare
15. The US military is sending counter-drone systems to New Jersey bases. Here’s how the Dronebuster works.
16. Imagining a US Army Drone Corps
17. The Long Range Desert Group and the birth of special operations around the world

Korean News Content:

1. Gen. Brunson to take office as new USFK chief this week: Pentagon
2. Han says S. Korea maintaining watertight readiness posture through alliance with U.S.
3. Acting defense minister, U.S. defense chief reaffirm alliance regardless of politics in phone talks
4. KOREA: Tangled by CONSTITUTIONAL law.
5. Yoon’s declaration of martial law and exercise of authority are not ‘sedition’
6. North Korean troops fighting in Kursk are picking up bad habits from the Russians
7. N. Korea-linked hackers stole US$1.34 billion from crypto platforms this year: Chainalysis
8. Seung-Whan Choi: If South Korea’s president is impeached, who should replace him?
9. AMCHAM appoints Henry Haggard as new U.S. Senior Advisor
10. Opinion | China should seize the moment to promote peace on Korean peninsula
11. Political Polarization, Factionalism, and Military Influence: A Cautionary Tale from South Korea’s Recent Turmoil
12. South Korea military faces scrutiny amid officer arrests
13. National Assembly’s legal team vows to finalize Yoon impeachment trial
14. Investigators seek to quiz Yoon over martial law on Christmas Day

About The Author

  • David Maxwell

    David Maxwell is a retired U.S. Army Special Forces Colonel who has spent more than 30 years in the Asia Pacific region (primarily Korea, Japan, and the Philippines) as a practitioner, specializing in Northeast Asian Security Affairs and irregular, unconventional, and political warfare. He is the Vice President of the Center for Asia Pacific Strategy. He commanded the Joint Special Operations Task Force Philippines during the war on terrorism and is the former J5 and Chief of Staff of the Special Operations Command Korea, and G3 of the US Army Special Operations Command. Following retirement, he was the Associate Director of the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University. He is a member of the board of directors of the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea and the OSS Society, on the board of advisers of Spirit of America, and is a contributing editor to Small Wars Journal.

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