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National Security News Content:

1. Assessing Resistance for the Purpose of Informing International Policy
2. Elections and Disinformation Are Colliding Like Never Before in 2024
3. How Ukraine Must Change If It Wants to Win
4. US and Allies Met Secretly With Ukraine on Peace Plan
5. CNO Franchetti's Warfighting Priorities
6. Readout of 2024 U.S.-PRC Defense Policy Coordination Talks
7. Kleptocrats in democracy’s clothing: Beijing and Moscow talk anti-corruption at the UN
8. Understanding AFSOC’s Adaptive Airborne Enterprise
9. Ten Lessons from Ten Years in the Army: Advice for Junior Leaders
10. China makes preparations for a war that the Pentagon says is not inevitable
11. Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, January 9, 2024
12. Israel–Hamas War (Iran) Update, January 9, 2024
13. US-China defense talks resume as two sides meet in Washington
14. Marco Rubio: U.S. Steel Sale Is Bad News for National Security
15. The US Steel deal is a test of friendshoring—and the US is failing
16. Ukraine’s War Effort Is Stuck. This Heroic Battlefield Failure Shows Why.
17. Israeli Special Forces Stake Out Mideast Terror Hotspots In Case Hostages Are Smuggled From Gaza: Report
18. 3 things China, Russia learned from Secretary Austin's secret hospitalization
19. America Will Have to Heavily Arm NATO’s Six Frontline States If Ukraine Falters—Especially Finland
20. Lawmakers Push for More Nuclear Microreactors in INDOPACOM
21. America's Veterans Are Civic Assets — Let's Stop Fearing Them as 'Violent' | Opinion
22. A Post-Election Risk Assessment for the Taiwan Strait
23, Taiwan’s Status Quo Election
24. How Ukraine Can Win Through Defense
25. With Tehran closer to nukes, Congress must end Biden’s Iran appeasement before it’s too late
26. Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: January
27. Ukraine special forces say they helped destroy a Russian weapons system that was blocking satellite comms
28. Primer: The Army's Journals
 

Korean News Content:

1. N.K. leader says he has 'no intention of avoiding war' with S. Korea
2. What's behind North Korea's increasing belligerence?
3. Kim Jong Un Calls South Korea ‘Principal Enemy,’ Turning Up Heat
4. North Korea's WMD Arsenal: Unveiling the Hidden Threat of Chemical and Biological Weapons
5. Top S. Korean, NATO military officials hold phone talks ahead of major NATO gathering
6. Multicultural student ratio exceeds 70% in 2 Seoul elementary schools
7. Kim Jong Un labels S Korea as ‘principal enemy,’ boasts war readiness
8. N. Korea conducts public execution over COVID-19 violations: human rights white paper
9. N. Korea likely to carry out psychological warfare ahead of general elections: official
10. Demand for Chinese yuan grows in N. Korean private markets: report
11. Editorial : Some S. Korean factions still stick to ‘Sunshine Policy’ even after the North denied it
12. Editorial: North Korea’s strategic provocations require strong, measured response
13. North Korea doubles down on reign of terror: white paper
14. Russia fired more N. Korean ballistic missiles at Ukraine: White House
15. Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: January - KOREA
16. 800,000 Korean men facing challenges in marrying Korean women
 

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National Security News Content:

1. FOLLOW-UP with updated report – Defense Primer: What Is Irregular Warfare?

2. Cutting Army Special Operations Will Erode the Military’s Ability to Influence the Modern Battlefield

3. DoD Memo: Review of Notification Process for Assumption of Functions and Duties of the Secretary of Defense

4. Marine Corps Provides Update on General Smith

5. Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, January 8, 2024

6. Israel–Hamas War (Iran) Update, January 8, 2024

7. 39 years ago, a KGB defector chillingly predicted modern America

8. Water in Chinese missiles' tanks is a fake story

9. Scanning the Horizon: If the Future is Unknowable, Why Bother with Forecasting?

10. With each strike, fears grow that Israel, the US and Iran's allies are inching closer to all-out war

11. The Russian Art of War: How the West led Ukraine to defeat

12. Tired Zelensky looks too weak to achieve victory

13. Putin’s Unsustainable Spending Spree

14. Can Republicans Find Consensus on Foreign Policy?

15. Blinken carries Arab message to Israel: keep Palestinian state hope alive

16. DOD leaders often overlook officers’ education in future assignments

17. Exhausted, on the Defensive and at ‘Hell’s Gate’ in Ukraine

18. Army sending additional 'data stewards' to commands, defining data roles

19. The Chinese Soldier Trained By Americans to Kill Americans

20. SECNAV Del Toro Names Next-Generation Hospital Ship Bethesda

21. Wanted: Airmen and Guardians Urged to Apply to Grueling Army Ranger School

22. Inside the daring plot to rescue an American soldier’s mother from Gaza

23. Opinion | So far, there’s no defense for Lloyd Austin’s hospital silence

24. The climate costs of war and militaries can no longer be ignored

25. India can unite Global South with developed world

26. The U.S. Military Must Transform and Coordinate

27. The Myth of an Apolitical Military: A Call to Action

28. The Great Scramble –   Analysis of the politically "homeless" in America

29. Jason Statham’s ‘Beekeeper’ Clip Unleashes Fury with Everyday Tools

Korean News Content:

1. Exploring Peaceful Coexistence with North Korea

2. N Korea keeping Russia rich in missiles and shells

3. North Korea: the forgotten front in the global wars

4. Military set to resume drills halted under 2018 inter-Korean accord buffer zones

5. Hamas is using North Korean weapons in Gaza, South Korea confirms

6. S. Korea to strengthen border surveillance with AI technology

7. Kremlin has 'no comment' on U.S., Ukraine claims it fired North Korean missiles

8. S. Korea to hold forums on N.K. human rights in Washington, Geneva

9. Dog Meat Will Be Off the Menu in South Korea

10. N. Korea’s redefining of inter-Korean relationship causes concern inside the country

11. Soldier’s freezing death prompts military to build inns across country (north Korea)

12. Defense chief calls for stronger anti-drone measures against N. Korea

13. S Korea revamps National Security Office with economic focus

14. Kim Jong Un reopens political prison camp to house political enemies

15. Possible COVID-19 cases surge in North Korea near border with China

16. When will North Korea do something good for the world?

17. DNA Exclusive: Will Kim Jong-Un's Actions Trigger A Third World War?

18. A Tax by Any Other Name: Understanding North Korea’s “Non-tax Burden” System

19. ‘No more buffer zone based on 2018 military agreement,’ S. Korea says

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A concise and useful overview of irregular warfare.  The author ties in the importance of influence in irregular warfare which is important because as we all know we must learn to lead with influence to effectively conduct irregular warfare in support of political warfare in the gray zone of strategic competition short of traditional armed conflict.

Also note the author include​s the Unconventional Warfare definition that is found in the 2016 NDAA which has a one word difference than the DOD definition found in JP 1-02 and JP 30-05.  Will the Joint Staff and DOD update the definition to match the one Congress put into law?

Defense Primer: What Is Irregular Warfare?

Introduction U.S. military doctrine distinguishes between two types of warfare: traditional warfare and irregular warfare. In Department of Defense (DOD) Joint Publication (JP) 1 Joint Warfighting, conventional warfare is characterized as “a violent struggle for domination between nation-states or coalitions and alliances of nation-states, fought with conventional forces.” The publication differentiates between that and irregular warfare (IW), which is defined as “a form of warfare where states and non-state actors campaign to assure or coerce states or other groups through indirect, non-attributable, or asymmetric activities, either as the primary approach or in concert with conventional warfare.” IW is a joint activity not limited to special operations forces (SOF); the IW operating environment includes all domains and the information environment (IE). According to JP 3-04 Information in Joint Operations, the IE is “the aggregate of social, cultural, linguistic, psychological, technical, and physical factors that affect how humans and automated systems derive meaning from, act upon, and are impacted by information, including the individuals, “organizations, and systems that collect, process, disseminate, or use information.”

Previous DOD doctrine characterized IW as “a violent struggle among state and non-state actors for legitimacy and influence over the relevant population(s).” IW actors may use nontraditional methods such as guerrilla warfare, terrorism, sabotage, subversion, criminal activities, and insurgency in their efforts to control the target population. In IW, a less powerful adversary seeks to disrupt or negate the military capabilities and advantages of a more powerful military force, which usually serves that nation’s established government. Because of its emphasis on influencing populations, actions to control the IE, to include actions in cyberspace, play a prominent role in IW. 

Unconventional Warfare. P.L. 114-92, Section 1097, National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for FY2016, defines UW as “activities conducted to enable a resistance movement or insurgency to coerce, disrupt, or overthrow a government or occupying power by operating through or with an underground, auxiliary, or guerrilla force in a denied area.” UW is a core component of IW. 

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National Security News Content:

1. Intellectual Firepower: Reviewing the DoD Education System (RAND Report)
2. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin remains hospitalized Sunday
3. Mother and uncle of US soldier rescued from Gaza in secret operation
4. Blinken seeks to head off wider war as Israel pursues Gaza offensive
5. NATO signs off on $5.5 billion contract for hundreds of Patriot missiles
6. US Military (USSOCOM) Searching for New Long-Range Sniper Rifle in Bid to Keep Edge over Russia and China
7. Firearm-Related Suicides Among Women Veterans Are Rising. We Must Do More on Secure Gun Storage.
8. Lesson of the Strike That Killed Soleimani
9. Nord Stream Probe Faces Resistance From Poland
10. Congressional Negotiators Reach Agreement on $1.6 Trillion Government Spending Level for 2024
11. China Says It Detained a Foreign Consultant for Spying for Britain
12. Options for the United States regarding Piratical Attacks against Commercial Shipping in the Red Sea and the Bab el-Mandeb Strait.
13. The Terrorist-Aid Agency
14. Russia Acquires North Korean Missiles, Eyes Iranian Missiles
15. Israel Plans for Next Phase of Gaza War, Defense Minister Says
16. Chinese Warships Eavesdrop on Joint U.S., Philippine Naval Drills in South China Sea
17. Biden retains confidence in Austin despite hospitalization secrecy
18. Philippines turns to hackers for help as US warns of China cyber threat
19. Remaking Mistakes in Gaza
20. China’s Game in Gaza
21. Want A Bigger U.S. Navy? Invest In America’s Waterfront Communities
22.  Biden has dangerously decayed deterrence — and every American is at risk by Michael R. Pompeo
23.  Ukrainian forces destroy Russian orbital satellite jamming system – video
24. "Modern Jedburghs: Bridging History to Strengthen Ukraine's Defense" OpEd by Mike Robinson, Radio Free Ukraine
 

Korean News Content:

1. S. Korea's spy agency confirms Hamas' suspected use of N. Korean weapons
2. FM nominee stresses need to work with China while maintaining alliance with U.S.
3. N. Korea makes no mention of leader's 40th birthday
4. Kim Jong Un calls Kishida ‘Your Excellency’ on shelling day
5. Russia Acquires North Korean Missiles, Eyes Iranian Missiles
6. Russia is using North Korean missiles in Ukraine, US says. That’s bad news for Asia
7. Kim Jong-un's daughter on track to assume power as aunt fades from spotlight: analysts
8. A Bleak Outlook for Inter-Korean Relations in 2024
9. N. Korean leader calls for increased poultry production amid food shortages
10. South scraps maritime buffer zone after North fires artillery shells
11. Seoul declares maritime buffer zone with North ineffective
12. ＜Inside N. Korea＞ Government implements wage by more than 10 times (1)　 Wages increase for employees of state-run enterprises and government agencies
13. Life On The Frontline: Fear, Camaraderie On S. Korean Border Island
14. Selling Kim Jong-un T-shirt isn't national security crime: police

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National Security News Content:

1. US Intelligence Shows Flawed China Missiles Led Xi to Purge Army
2. China to sanction 5 US manufacturers over arms sales to Taiwan - ministry
3. Analysis: China feels the country isn’t patriotic enough. A new law aims to change that
4. Opinion | Where have all the American China experts gone?
5. Pentagon’s Ukraine Coffers Run Dry, Threatening Kyiv’s Grip on Its Territory
6. Lloyd Austin Owes Americans an Explanation
7. Russia, China and the Threat to the North Pole
8. Today's Crises, Here and Abroad, Echo the Disasters of the Past | Opinion
9. Israel Signals It Has Wrapped Up Major Combat in Northern Gaza as War Enters Fourth Month
10. Myanmar says an ethnic alliance has seized a key city bordering China
11. Assessing and Addressing the Houthi Threat
12. Japanese Company’s Bid for U.S. Steel Tests Biden’s Industrial Policy
13. Is Israel Winning the War on the Tunnels in Gaza?
14. What It’s Actually Like Being a Woman in the CIA
15. Iraq moving to remove US-led military coalition, prime minister says
16. Israel’s talk of expanding war to Lebanon alarms U.S.
 

Korean News Content:

1. N. Korea stages artillery drills off western coast for 3rd day: S. Korean military
2.  North Korea again fires near the sea border with the South, as its leader's sister mocks Seoul
3. Axis of Missiles: Russia Is Using Missiles from North Korea to Attack Ukraine
4. S. Korea, U.S., Japan condemn N.K. nuke program, note China's 'unlawful' South China Sea claims
5. The Woman Shaking Up the $50 Billion Instant-Ramen Industry
6. Caution is needed against N. Korea’s ploy of escalating military conflicts
7. South Korea, U.S., Japan hold first trilateral Indo-Pacific talks
8. N. Korea's sympathy message to Japan meant to weaken trilateral ties: experts
9. South Korea’s inevitable security trade-offs
10. Will ‘Beyond Utopia’ get an Oscar in March?

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National Security News Content:

1. Special Warfare Magazine - January 2024 (PSYWAR School and Irregular Warfare Academy)

2. Defense Primer: What Is Irregular Warfare?

3. ‘Women are the best snipers’: the elite soldier hunting naive Russians

4. Investigation Reveals Tragic Details of Hamas’s Sexual Violence

5. How social media platforms shaped our initial understanding of the Israel-Hamas conflict

6. Denied Care, Deaths in Japan Result from Lack of Emergency Medical Services for American Personnel

7. Don’t Bring a Patriot to a Drone Fight—Bring Fighter UAVs Instead

8. China-Taiwan Weekly Update, January 4, 2024

9. The World’s Biggest Risks for 2024 Are More Than Trump

10. Xi’s latest purge targets the military. Why did powerful generals fall out of favor?

11. Overstretched and undersupplied: Can the US afford its global security blanket?

12.  5 Myths About the U.S. Military That Need to Go Away

13. Preventive Priorities Survey 2024

14. Attrition: Medical Care in the Combat Zone (Russia v. Ukraine)

15. The Unpredictable But Entirely Possible Events That Could Throw 2024 Into Turmoil

Korean News Content:

1. Power and Perception: A Review of Sung-Yoon Lee’s “The Sister”

2. South Korea says US troops won’t be cut even if Trump wins presidency

3. North Korea Factor Fades Amid Seoul’s Trilateral Engagement

4. Kim Jong Un Shows Off Daughter After Reports She's His Presumptive Successor

5. N.K. leader taking offensive policy on S. Korea to divert public attention from internal woes: unification minister

6. N. Korea fires artillery shells from western coast for 2nd day: S. Korean military

7. N. Korean leader sends condolence message to Japanese PM over recent earthquake

8. 2.4 magnitude earthquake hits off southwestern coast: weather agency

9. US validates N. Korean SRBM usage in Russian assault on Ukraine

10. SpectralBlur: New macOS Backdoor Threat from North Korean Hackers

11. North Korea may surprise world with big nuclear moves

12.  South Korea tells Russia to stop getting arms from North Korea

13. U.S. officials, experts pick N.K.-triggered crisis among plausible top-tier contingencies in 2024

14. Pentagon stresses 'main focus' on regional stability amid N. Korea's bellicose rhetoric

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National Security News Content:

1. The war in Gaza may widen. The Biden admin is getting ready for it.
2. The Pentagon is Trying to Rebuild the Arsenal of Democracy
3. Why America fell out of love with its Army
4. China Has New Full-Scale Target Of America's Ford Supercarrier
5. Russia fires missiles supplied by North Korea into Ukraine, says U.S. intelligence
6. Marine Corps using exercises to mature new Information Command
7. Special Operations Command's commando aircraft are in jeopardy
8. L3Harris secures near half a billion-dollar USSOCOM contract for tactical radios - Army Technology
9. The Hamas 'CEO' who payrolled October 7 rapists and murderers
10. Survivor of Hamas Oct. 7 Music Festival Slaughter Recounts Horrific Rape, Murder of Female Attendee
11. Israel's Plans for Post-War Gaza Begin to Come Into View
12. Water increasingly at the center of conflicts from Ukraine to the Middle East
13. Houthis have attacked ships in the Red Sea 25 times since November
14. U.S., Partners Committed to Defensive Operations in Red Sea
15.  A Ukrainian Saboteur Traveled 900 Miles to A Snowy Russian Airfield And, In The Dead Of Night, Lit A Russian Sukhoi Fighter-Bomber On Fire
16. China’s Attempt To Increase Regional Influence
17. How Far-Right Terrorists Learned to Stop Worrying and Leave the Bomb
18. U.S. Special Ops Team Pioneers Donation Initiative in Thailand
19. Arms and Influencers: Leveraging the Social Media Stars in the US Military’s Ranks
20.  The Ukraine-Taiwan Tradeoff
21. Why America’s National Security Establishment Keeps Falling Short
22. The U.S. Military’s Personnel Crisis
23. Shooting down Russia's overhyped missiles with Patriots is a win for more than just Ukraine. The war is an 'intelligence bonanza' for the West.
24. 3 Steps to Take Instead of Complaining about Gen Z’s Fragile Mental Health
25. GRAND STRATEGY: A SHORT GUIDE FOR MILITARY STRATEGISTS
26. Russia issues no comment over rumours Putin's top war commander General Valery Gerasimov has been killed in Ukrainian missile strike on Crimea

Korean News Content:

1.  N. Korea fires some 200 artillery shells off western coast: S. Korean military
2. N. Korea rebuilds destroyed guard posts inside DMZ with concrete
3. North Korea Fires Artillery Barrage Toward Border Islands in the South
4. Russia fires missiles supplied by North Korea into Ukraine, says U.S. intelligence
5. N. Korean leader inspects factory producing launchers for solid-fuel ICBMs
6. Kim Ju-ae likely heir to North Korea’s Kim Jong-un, says South’s spy agency
7. KPA General Staff Issues Report (nK live fire in NLL area)
8. North Korea fires 200 shells into sea off western coast
9. Korean shipbuilder’s submarine designs leaked to Taiwan
10. South Korea fires 400 artillery shells in response to North's provocation
11. Japan firm Hitachi Zosen accused of ‘betrayal’ for Korean forced labour payout
12. US designates NK for religious freedom violation for 22nd straight year
13. ‘The gap in the U.S. North Korean human rights law’ is the longest in history… “It’s disappointing that there is a lack of leadership in Congress.”
14. Pyongyang labor brigades face the music after engaging in “non-socialist” songs and dances
15. Why Kim has skipped his New Year’s speech
16. Tensions escalate as North Korea fires artillery shells off west coast
17. ROK Navy commissions 1st female submariners
18. Russia hit Ukraine with NK-made missiles: Kyiv