Small Wars Journal

8/8/22 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

Mon, 08/08/2022 - 10:38am

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Access Korean News HERE.

National Security News Content:

1. RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, AUGUST 7 (Putin's War)

2. Exclusive: U.S. readies new $1 billion Ukraine weapons package

3. Thirteen Lives’ Review: Dramatizing the Near Impossible

4. Is the Marine Corps Becoming Irrelevant?

5. Did Nancy Pelosi Put the U.S. and China on a Path to War?

6. White House resists Congress’ bipartisan bid to overhaul U.S.-Taiwan relations

7. Could the U.S. Military Fight Russia and China At the Same Time?

8. FDD | U.S. Senate votes 95-1 to add Finland and Sweden to NATO alliance

9. FDD | What the U.S. Should Say About the Death of Shireen Abu Akleh

10. Ukraine calls for demilitarised zone around nuclear plant hit by shelling

11. Taiwan crisis: China defends calling off US military talks as exercises set to resume

12. China’s Military Drills and Other Tensions With Taiwan, Explained

13. One year after Afghanistan, spy agencies pivot toward China

14. US, Philippines flex alliance in heat of Taiwan crisis

15. How SOCOM's secret 'knife bomb' became the prime weapon for killing hard-to-reach terrorists

16. Innovation: People Are More Important than Technology

17. America’s Long Road to Global Power

18. Philippines welcomes possible WPS joint patrols with US

19. Don’t Ever Underestimate Your Opponents — Especially When They’re Chinese

20. Mozart and Wagner clash on the battlefields of the Ukraine

21. It’s an artillery war, but Ukraine still kills tanks with Javelins

22. America's deadliest Irishman - the Irish James Bond

23. FVR established AFP's most elite unit in 1962; it was his ‘most exciting, dangerous' assignment

Korean News Content:

1. Defense minister visits key U.S. base to underline 'solid' S. Korea-U.S. alliance

2. North Korea Offers 100,000 Troops to Help Russia Fight Ukraine: Report

3. N. Korea's security agents shake down remittance brokers for money in border region

4. Korea Needs to Organize Immigration as Population Declines

5. Ministry of State Security fishing boats on secret operation seized by military vessels

6. Korea to Join Early Meeting of U.S.-Led Chip Alliance

7. COVID Spreads Faster in Peak Holiday Season

8. China conducts live-fire drills in Yellow Sea after Taiwan Strait

9. N. Korea to hold Supreme People's Assembly meeting on Sept. 7: KCNA

10. The first ever western movie to show on North Korean TV isn’t what you’d think

11. ‘Crossings’ Follows A Walk For Peace As It Crosses The Korean Divide

12. Yoon vows to go back to basics amid low approval ratings

13. 'Chip 4,' Thaad likely to be discussed by Korea, China's top envoys