Small Wars Journal

4/22/24 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

Mon, 04/22/2024 - 9:27am

Access National Security News HERE.

Access Korean News HERE.

National Security News Content:

1. PLA SSF scrapped, it’s now the PLA ISF: What does it mean?
2. US weighs sending additional military advisers to Ukraine as Russia gains momentum
3. China's scenarios for invading Taiwan could be altered following Iran's failed attack on Israel, report says
4. Information Warfare is Integrated Warfare
5. Global military spending surges amid war, rising tensions and insecurity
6. Trends in World Military Expenditure, 2023
7. Israel beefs up armored corps with new tank companies, for now and the future
8. THE MONTH IN GREAT POWER COMPETITION IN FIVE MINUTES
9. Biden Has Allowed the Marine Corps to Become Irrelevant  by Gary Anderson
10. The Tech Industry is the New Defense Industrial Base
11. Israel Planned Bigger Attack on Iran, but Scaled It Back to Avoid War
12. Biden’s Small Win — and Bigger Failure — in the Middle East
13. US, Philippine Troops Kick Off Drills as China Tensions Mount
14. Public Disputes Undercut Officer Class
15. Historian says US is ‘in a moral crisis right now’
16. How Washington Can Save its Semiconductor Controls on China
17. Europe—but Not NATO—Should Send Troops to Ukraine
18. The Coming Arab Backlash
19. Comparing Gray-Zone Tactics in the Red Sea and the South China Sea
20. New PLA unit underscores intelligentized warfare shift
21. Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, April 21, 2024
22. Israel–Hamas War (Iran) Update, April 21, 2024
 

Korean News Content:

1. North Korea fires ballistic missiles days after reported ‘super-large warhead’ test
2. N. Korea fires several short-range ballistic missiles toward East Sea: JCS
3. North Korea files short-range ballistic missiles toward east coast: South
4. S. Korea, U.S. to hold 1st round of defense cost sharing talks this week
5. North Koreans Secretly Animated Amazon and Max Shows, Researchers Say
6. Editorial: Kim Jong-un eclipses Kim Il-sung’s sun, signaling North’s regime decline
7. Korea-Poland mega arms deal jeopardized by financial hurdles
8. Polish delegation visits S. Korea amid negotiations for arms deals
9. Experts see possibility of N.K. conducting nuclear test before U.S. presidential vote
10. Korea, US to cooperate for proliferation resistance optimization of research nuclear reactors
11. Kim Il Sung's birthday didn't lead to fall in grain prices this year
12. The impact of N. Korea's harsh lockdown of Onsong County in 2022 still reverberates today
13. S. Korean envoys convene to navigate strategy amid Middle East tensions
14. N. Korea's rural areas suffer from high rates of infant mortality