Small Wars Journal

12/20/22 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

Tue, 12/20/2022 - 9:36am

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Access Korean News HERE.

National Security News Content:

1. RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, DECEMBER 19

2. Wartime Ukraine erasing Russian past from public spaces

3. The U.S. Needs to Change the Way It Does Business With China

4. Factbox: How many people might die, and why, under relaxed China COVID curbs

5. The Pentagon says it has helped Ukraine thwart Russian cyberattacks.

6. Why the Marine Corps may nix gender identifiers for drill instructors

7. New House Panel on China to Scrutinize US Investments in Country

8. Assessing “Reflections on Net Assessment” by Andrew W. Marshall, Edited by Jeffrey S. McKitrick and Robert G. Angevine

9. The Terrorist Threats and Trends to Watch Out for in 2023 and Beyond

10. US officials tried to stop Ukraine from killing high-ranking Russian general who was on a risky visit to the front lines, report says

11. The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers – 35 Years Later

12. The Top Ten Global Risks of 2023

13. Defending Ukraine: the World's Frontline of Freedom

14. Chinese Liaoning Carrier Strike Group Now Operating in the Philippine Sea

15. ‘Lacking Credibility, Lacking Confidence From the People … Is Xi Xinping’s Greatest Vulnerability’

16. Washington is waking up on weapons for Taiwan

17. Taiwanese Flock to Civil Defense Training Ahead of Potential Chinese Invasion

18. Barriers still prevent women from joining special ops, watchdog says

19. Partisan Bills Hurt Cybersecurity

20. Send the Ground-Launched Small Diameter Bomb to Ukraine

21. It’s not just the EU that needs to scrutinize Qatar’s influence campaigns

22. The High Cost of American Heavy-Handedness

Korean News Content:

1. S. Korea, U.S. stage combined air drills involving America's B-52H bombers, F-22 fighters

2. NK leader's sister dismisses doubts about N. Korea's satellite, ICBM technologies

3. North Korea to Finish Preparations for Spy Satellite by April

4. N. Korea warns of 'actual action' against Japan's counterstrike capability policy

5. Rights watchdog welcomes passage of N. Korean human rights resolution

6. U.S., Japan to revise guidelines for defense cooperation

7. North Korea's record-setting missile tests are showing off weapons it has tried to keep hidden for decades

8.  In 1996, A North Korean Submarine Nearly Sparked a War

9.  Inside N. Korea’s Internet-based foreign currency-earning activities

10. U.S. F-22s in Korea for training near Jeju with Korean, U.S aircraft

11. N. Korean air force commander executed for failing to properly maintain drones

12. Kim Yo-jong goes ballistic as South pooh-poohs latest launch

13. Hanwha Systems to develop NATO-compliant secure radio network

14. Korea needs preemptive measures against Japan's new security strategy

15. Making a big deal is unrealistic to denuclearize North Korea

16. Ep.24 David Maxwell: Recalibrating Deterrence Against an Evolving DPRK Nuclear Threat

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