Small Wars Journal

12/16/2021 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

Thu, 12/16/2021 - 10:25am

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Access Korean News HERE.

National Security News Content:

1. After extraordinary sacrifice — and years of delay — Alwyn Cashe gets his Medal of Honor
2. Afghanistan Is About To Collapse. Here’s What the U.S. Must Do About It.
3. A Refugee Crisis Runs Into a Housing Crisis
4. Military Aid for Ukraine: Deterring Russia Promptly
5. Opinion | To deter a Russian attack, Ukraine needs to prepare for guerrilla warfare
6. How Beijing Influences the Influencers
7. Joint Statement on 8th United States – New Zealand Defense Policy Dialogue
8. Typhoon Rai intensifies to Cat 5 storm as it slams Philippines
9. Russia’s Putin, China’s Xi hail ties amid tensions with West
10. In the Next War, America’s Homeland Will Be a Target
11. China, Russia and Iran: The empires strike back
12. The U.S. military men spreading Trump’s baseless fraud claims
13. Pacific Deterrence Initiative: A look at funding in the new defense bill, and what must happen now
14. Kyiv keeping calm and carrying on even as Kremlin boosts pressure on Ukraine
15. Why US Special Forces Commandos and AC-130 Gunships Are Training for War
16. Trollfare: How to Recognize and Fight Off Online Psyops
17. In Absence Of Soft Warfare, National Security Policy Will Continue To Fail Against Global Threats – Analysis
18. Putin and Xi cement partnership in face of Western pressure
19. The New Era Of Great Power Competition And The Biden Administration: Emerging Patterns And Principles – Analysis
20. Combat Misinformation by Getting Back to Security Basics
21. Washington Is Preparing for the Wrong War With China
22. Why the Stalemate in Eastern Ukraine Will Likely Hold
23. What Does the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan Have to Offer?
24. Putin, Xi running circles around Biden’s hybrid war
25.  FDD | Macron Looks to Revive Saudi Financing for French Military Contracts in Lebanon
26.  FDD | Bottom-Up Hope: Local Governments Bolster Religious Pluralism in Turkey
27.  FDD | Germany must stop cozying up to Iran
28.  FDD | Hamas’ Efforts to Release Marwan Barghouti Come at Fatah’s Expense
29. Biden picks Caroline Kennedy and Michelle Kwan to be ambassadors
30. The Threat of a China-Centric New World Order

Korean News Content:

1. Remarks by Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield at the UN Security Council Stakeout on the Human Rights Situation in DPRK
2. Making much of human rights
3. Rights Group Tracks Kim Jong-un's Murders
4. U.S.-North relations unlikely to be impacted by Beijing Games: Lambert
5. Analysis: N.Korea after 10 years of Kim Jong Un - better armed but more isolated than ever
6. 2022 U.S. defense bill erases ban on reducing USFK troops
7. How Kim Jong-un Ran N.Korea's Economy into the Ground
8. A Declaration to End the Korean War: Why Now?
9.  Undeterred by fruitless push in 2021, S. Korea seeks to revitalize peace process in coming year
10. Why South Korea Refused to Join the Olympic Boycott
11. Six UNSC members call for North's human rights issues to be addressed
12.  North Korea continues to practice “politics of fear” as Kim Jong Un marks 10th year in power
13. Yanggang Province security agency ordered to “root out every last user of Chinese mobile phones”
14. Kim's first decade: 3 US meetings, 2 dead relatives, 1 nuclear arsenal
15. Escaping North Korea Under Kim Jong-Un – Analysis
16. Kim Jong-un presided over 10 years of brutal executions - OKN
17. North Korea in commemorative mood ahead of 10th anniversary of ex-leader's passing
18. Netflix boss reveals they knew ‘Squid Game’ would be big