4/16/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary
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National Security News Content:
1. A Retrospective on Captain Travis Patriquin: America’s “Lawrence of Arabia” in Ramadi
2. The People Are the Key: Irregular Warfare Success Story in the Philippines
3. The Art of Not Dealing: China’s 3-Ring Strategy for a Prolonged Trade War
4. Tariffs Are Essential to a Free People
5. Army Special Ops Slated to Lose Thousands of Paid Airborne Positions
6. Training officers outperform special forces team during Best Ranger Competition
7. USAJOBS – Senior Advisor to the Department of Defense Department of Homeland Security DHS Headquarters Office of the Secretary
8. The White House pressed for fast negotiations with its shock and awe tariffs. Now it can’t drum up enough interest from a ‘first mover’
9. Chip War and the Battle for Technological Sovereignty: A Hybrid Warfare Perspective (Book Review)
10. It Was Never the End of History, But the Beginning of the Clash of Civilizations
11. The New Adaptation War by Mick Ryan
12. Taiwan’s Whole-of-Society Defence Resilience Model and Beijing’s Grey Zone Aggression
13. Indonesia dismisses report of Russian request to base aircraft in Papua New Guinea
14. Cartels, China, and Fentanyl-Related Illicit Finance | JD Supra
15. Taiwan’s Biggest Problem in Steeling Itself for War with China is Cultural
16. Operation Opera Redux? Iran’s Nuclear Program and the Preventive War Paradox
17. Nuclear Deterrence vs Nuclear Warfighting: Is There a Difference and Does it Matter?
18. Pentagon Review of Close Combat Training Standards Is Long Overdue
19. AUKUS Should Build a Center for Experimentation in Western Australia
20. Will DOGE Take a Bite Out of This Spy Firm’s Stock? That’s Classified
21. Viral Videos, Trade Tensions Drive U.S. Shoppers to Chinese App
Korean News Content:
1. Senior Pentagon official calls Trump’s policy ‘not recipe for isolation’ but ‘common sense’ approach
2. North Korea soldiers, weapons helped Russia at critical moment in war on Ukraine
3. Finance Minister Choi to meet Bessent over trade issues next week
4. S. Korea to boost shipbuilding, energy cooperation with U.S. for tariff negotiations: trade minister
5. S. Korea, Vietnam agree on close communication on U.S. tariffs
6. Could Trump’s tariffs cause simmering tensions in South Korea to boil over?
7. How Trump’s push to deregulate crypto could help North Korean hackers
8. South Korea’s Politics After Impeachment
9. Opinion: South Korea’s democracy stands strong after presidential turmoil
10. Police say North Korea impersonated horoscope writers, counterintelligence command in 120,000 phishing emails
11. North Korea has earned estimated $20B from military support for Russia: Report
12. Russia issued nearly 10K visas for North Koreans in 2024, consular data shows
13. “If South Korea Arms Its Nuclear Armament, the Korean Peninsula Will Become an ‘India-Pakistan’ Situation”
14. Acting president says S. Korea, U.S. seeking ‘win-win’ solution for tariffs
15. Shipbuilding cooperation with U.S. chance for S. Korean industry to leap forward: acting president
16. Editorial: Missiles for Pyongyang, silence in Seoul?
17. South Korea’s Hanwha and Poland’s WB Group agree to guided missile joint venture in Poland
