Small Wars Journal

9/26/2021 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

Sun, 09/26/2021 - 11:01am

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National Security News Content:

1. Joint Statement from Quad Leaders
2. Fact Sheet: Quad Leaders’ Summit
3. US default a greater risk than Evergrande meltdown
4. Justice Department Reaches Deal With Huawei Executive
5. Quad and AUKUS building a bulwark against China
6. Neo-Nazis are still on Facebook. And they’re making money
7. Maria Ressa urges world leaders: 'Act now' vs infodemic threatening democracies
8. Kidnapping, assassination and a London shoot-out: Inside the CIA's secret war plans against WikiLeaks
9. Report Calling for Troop and Retiree Pay Cuts Is Grossly Misleading
10. Opinion | Biden’s strategy to stabilize U.S.-China relations isn’t working
11. Fallout begins for far-right trolls who trusted Epik to keep their identities secret
12. How Afghanistan’s security forces lost the war
13. Second line of defence: Taiwan’s civilians train to resist invasion
14. Russia's Lavrov says Taliban recognition 'not on the table'
15. Tomorrow’s soldiers will have their reality augmented
16. How It Feels to Be Asian in Today’s America
 

Korean News Content:

1. North Korea Dangles Hopes for Summit and End-of-War Declaration
2. Kim Yo Jong, Vice Department Director of C.C., WPK, Issues Press Statement
3. S. Korea says N. Korean leader sister's weekend remarks 'meaningful'
4. Kim Yo-jong extends an olive branch to Moon
5. Kim Yo-jong pressures Seoul to negotiate with US: experts
6. How Should South Korea’s Next President Approach OPCON Transfer?
7. N. Korea slams Japanese PM Suga over U.N. Assembly speech
8. Explosive rise in infections disrupts Korea's path to 'live with COVID-19' strategy
9. Plaque honoring war sacrifices unveiled at Korea Military Academy
10. US never stopped ‘longest war’ in South Korea — and now democracy thrives
11. How the U.S. Military Plans to Capture North Korean Nukes
 

9/25/2021 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

Sat, 09/25/2021 - 11:23am

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National Security News Content:

1. Russian disinformation campaigns change tack to get around western defences
2. Lithuania says throw away Chinese phones due to censorship concerns
3. US, China edging closer to war: Ex-MI6 operative
4. FDD | Reading Between the Lines of Biden’s and Xi’s U.N. Speeches
5. What’s Working and What Isn’t in Researching Influence Operations?
6. Can the World Get Aid to Afghanistan?
7. Bill To Abolish U.S. Space Force Introduced By North Bay Rep. Jared Huffman
8. Afghans arrived near a small Virginia town, exposing two different versions of America
9. The Myth That Authoritarianism Happens Only on the Right
10. China draws up list of 100 instances of U.S. "interference" in Hong Kong
11. US favourable to Taiwan trade bid, urges Beijing to cease pressure
12. China Is a Declining Power—and That’s the Problem
13. Is NATO good for Asia or is Asia good for NATO?
14. Opinion | Our constitutional crisis is already here
15. The Future of Conquest: Fights Over Small Places Could Spark the Next Big War
16. Channeling the Military Master: Top 10 Sun Tzu Memes

Korean News Content:

1. North Korean Leader’s Sister Seen as Erratic and Arrogant at Home, Officials Say
2. Foreign minister’s remark siding with China under fire
3. U.S. Congress chooses Pyeongtaek base as Indo-Pacific intelligence hub
4. N.K. leader's sister says constructive talks on inter-Korean summit possible if Seoul shows mutual respect
5. N.K. diplomats engaging in illicit financing activities: British gov't report
6. N. Korean leader highlights strong ties with China against 'hostile forces'
7. Quad leaders urge N. Korea to engage in dialogue, refrain from provocations
8. U.S. holds no hostile intent, hopes N. Korea will respond positively to dialogue offer: Price
9. Will Moon's peace initiative pick up momentum?
10. Time to consider relaxing sanctions on N. Korea, foreign minister says
11. EXPLAINER: Why North Korea wants sanctions lifted first
12. South Korea: The Next Nation to Build Nuclear Weapons?

9/24/2021 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

Fri, 09/24/2021 - 8:29am

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National Security News Content:

1. AUKUS: Winners And Losers – Analysis
2. Low-Level Commanders Need Authority to Counter Information Operations, Northcom Leader Say
3. FDD | Treasury Takes Aim at Ransomware and Illicit Cryptocurrency Trading
4. Opinion | No Wonder the French Are Angry
5. US unfairly targeting Chinese over industrial spying, says report
6. Japan welcomes Taiwan’s application to join TPP free trade deal
7. Lawmakers storm out of classified Afghanistan briefing after questions go unanswered
8. Biden’s nuclear agenda in trouble as Pentagon hawks attack
9. Advocates push for space on National Mall to honor Global War on Terror troops
10. Welcome Back to the Pentagon ....
11. The Quad Comes to Washington
12. Sweden progresses with two complementary strategies to deter an invasion
13. In Biden’s Foreign Policy, Friends and Foes Claim Echoes of Trump
14. Why the head of the IMF should resign
15. Opinion | To contain China, joining the Pacific trade pact might be more effective than new submarines
16. The 'Quad' is on the rise in Asia-Pacific: Game theory has a prediction about its future
17. U.S., allies becoming more assertive in their approach toward a rising China
 

Korean News Content:

1.  N. Korea rejects Moon's proposal of end-of-war declaration as 'premature'
2. Press Statement of Vice Foreign Minister Ri Thae Song (north Korea)
3. Moon: N. Korea sticks to moratorium on nuclear, ICBM testing, leaving door open for dialogue
4. Kim Yo-jong calls Moon's war-end declaration offer 'admirable idea,' demands end to hostile policy
5. Pentagon 'Open to Discussion' That Ties Formal End of Korean War to Denuclearization
6. Improved missile defense essential to countering North Korea, Iran
7. USFK makes public Teak Knife surgical strike drill amid N.K. military moves
8. U.S. open to 'confidence building' initiatives with N. Korea: Lambert
9. U.S. Senate Denounces 'Rogue' N.Korea as Moon Talks Peace
10. Ruling Party Must Drop Press Gag Bill
11. US Rules Out Redeploying Tactical Nukes to South Korea
12. N. Korea slams Suga for hostile policy, warns next leader against following in his footsteps
13. U.N. rapporteur voices concern media bill would hurt South Korea's reputation on press freedom
14. No talks if South 'provokes': North Korea
15. North Korea Calls Peace-Deal Proposal by South’s Moon Jae-in Premature
16. Defector caught trying to return to N. Korea
17. Top diplomats of S. Korea, Japan reconfirm differences on history

9/23/2021 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

Thu, 09/23/2021 - 10:19am

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National Security News Content:

1. How to Use America’s New Peace Dividend
2. ‘Integrated Deterrence’ to Drive National Defense Strategy
3. Why the US should offer to buy France's submarines for Vietnam
4. Clarifying the Issue of Nuclear Weapons Release Authority
5. It's time for Congress to act on WHO reform
6. The Afghans that Fought
7 Time for U.S. to unfriend Pakistan
8. AUKUS sub deal splits ASEAN into pro and anti camps
9. FDD | Iran Joining the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation
10. Analysis | Why the Pentagon can’t fully account for all its assets — in Afghanistan or anywhere else
11. Learn to Use Data or Risk Dying in Battle, New Army Project Teaches
12. Racial Division, Troops’ Role in Protests Has Hurt Minority Recruiting, Air Force Says
13. Special envoy to Haiti resigns citing 'inhumane' US decision to deport thousands of Haitians from US border
14. Biden Just Gave France Something More Valuable than a Submarine Contract
15. China Can’t Win an Arms Race With the U.S.
16. US botched the response to COVID-19, McChrystal says
17. A GI Bill for Afghan allies
18. Top Army spokesperson suspended after abysmal climate survey
19. Taiwan seeks entry into key trade pact before China
 

Korean News Content:


1. S. Korea seeks to turn Korean War armistice into peace regime through end-of-war declaration: official
2.  U.S. open to discussion with N. Korea on end of war declaration: Pentagon spokesman
3. South hopes to bring North to talks with sanctions relief
4. FM Chung calls for 'snap-back' incentives to bring N. Korea back to dialogue
5. Is Pres. Moon going all out for end-of-war declaration?
6. OKN and KCPAC Sends a Message to President Moon Jae-in at Times Square
7. South Korea foreign minister says to meet Japan counterpart on Thursday
8. Commentary: Seoul and the role of middle powers in a fragile region
9.  Foreign Ministry slashed budget for North's human rights protection
10. Moon awards medals to Korean immigrants in Hawaii for fight against Japan's colonization
11. Moon flies home with remains of 68 Korean War heroes
12. U.S. names North Korea as a main culprit in ransomware attacks
13. AUKUS comes as pressure on Seoul to join anti-China campaign
14. North Korea’s Missile Tests Aren’t Surprising. Biden Has Been Fueling Tensions.
15. Does North Korea Want to Absorb South Korea or Just Leach Off of It?
16. Yoon says he will request redeployment of US tactical nukes in case of emergency
17. North Korean Sanctions Evasion Techniques
 

9/22/2021 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

Wed, 09/22/2021 - 10:03am

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National Security News Content:

1. Remarks by President Biden Before the 76th Session of the United Nations General Assembly
2. Air Force IG to lead investigation into Kabul drone strike that killed civilians
3. Despite the chaos of U.S. troops leaving Afghanistan, the world still needs American leadership | Opinion
4. Has War Become Too Humane? (book review)
5. Opinion | It’s time to break up the military-industrial complex
6. Ruckus over AUKUS torpedoes united anti-China front
7. Japan politics on a precipice but US barely notices
8. Digital Dunkirk: What the Afghan Evacuation Should Teach Us about the Future of Volunteer Support to the US Military
9. Opinion | The Biden administration just stalled China’s advance in the Indo-Pacific
10. Biden, the U.N. and Afghan Women
11. Fat Leonard is poised to spill the beans in this new podcast
12. China views critics as terrorists and criminals
13. U.S. targets suspected al Qaeda leader in Idlib, Syria
14. Influential Taliban commanders added to Taliban government
15. Erdogan’s U-turn in Afghanistan shows the danger of outsourcing security missions to autocrats
16. Space Force reveals uniforms and Twitter can only see 'Star Trek' and 'Battlestar Galactica'
17. China’s ‘The Battle at Lake Changjin’ Opens Beijing Intl. Film Festival With Rocketing Box Office Forecasts
18. China's Xi, like Biden hours earlier, turns to calm language
19. With No U.S. Support, Leaders of Afghan Resistance Flee the Country
20. Air Force commandos are preparing for war with Russia or China by rethinking what a 'runway' really is
21. After the Tall Man
 

Korean News Content:

1. Full text of President Moon Jae-in's speech at U.N. General Assembly
2. Moon proposes formal end to Korean War for irreversible progress in denuclearization efforts
3. Why Provide Nuclear Submarines to Australia, But Not South Korea or Japan?
4. Opposition party leader leaves for US for North Korea among other issues
5. Moon's proposal to end Korean War faces feasibility questions
6. 70 years after he died in a Korean POW camp, Medal of Honor recipient Fr. Emil Kapaun begins journey home
7. South Korea president to visit Hawaii to honor service members in repatriation ceremony
8. Republic of Korea calls for UN-led ‘era of global community’
9. Kim Jong Un shift from nuclear push to economy intensified internal debates in country, report says
10. Understanding Kim Jong Un’s Economic Policymaking: Defense Versus Civilian Spending
11. The Last Chance to Stop North Korea?
12. At UN, Moon pushes peace with NKorea after missile tests
13.  Top diplomats of S. Korea, U.S., Japan to hold talks in New York
14.  U.S. seeks diplomacy to completely denuclearize Korean Peninsula: Biden
15. S. Korea's first lady holds talk session with young Korean Americans
16. North Korean Food Shortages Hobble Autumn Holiday Rituals and Feasts
17. S. Korea planning 23 bln-won aid project for war-torn Afghanistan
 

9/21/2021 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

Tue, 09/21/2021 - 9:44am

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National Security News Content:

1. Ken Burns Says Current Times ‘Equal’ to Civil War, Depression and World War II: ‘It’s Really Serious’
2. When America’s All-Volunteer Force Loses a War
3. The Biden Administration Needs to Act Fast to Reset Relations with France
4. U.S. Allies Still Trust America
5. Congress’ Afghanistan watchdog will continue oversight
6. Assessing the Alignment of U.S. Diplomatic and Military Power to Forestall Armed Conflict
7. The Atlantic Alliance After Afghanistan
8. How America Should Deal With the Taliban
9. FDD | The Bizarre Positive Biden Spin on Afghanistan
10. Islamic State bombs Taliban convoys in eastern Afghanistan
11. AFSOC plans to demo amphibious MC-130J by end of next year, commander says
12. Air Force Special Operations Commander Expects New, Lighter Plane to Fight Terrorists Next Year
13. Pentagon replacing Defense Travel System, says savings and user satisfaction will result
14. Shaping a Way Ahead for Pacific Defense: The Evolving Role of the USAF
15. Biden seeks to open a new chapter in world affairs, facing fresh skepticism from allies
16. A Rahm Emanuel is Exactly What Japan Wants, Asia Scholars Say
17. It's clearer to India than ever that Quad is no military alliance. Everything's a bit AUKUS
18. Indo-Pacific needs 'third way'
19. The Key to Understanding Our Endless Wars Is the Goat Cart Theory
20. China: the overly sensitive superpower
21. Xi Jinping Aims to Rein In Chinese Capitalism, Hew to Mao’s Socialist Vision
22. The War in Afghanistan Is What Happens When McKinsey Types Run Everything
23. AUKUS Is the Death Knell of Australia's Strategic Ambiguity
24. Beijing’s bid to join CPTPP may fail yet also succeed, experts say
25. A ‘Proof of Death’ Video From Xinjiang
26. Army finally reveals why a soldier is being court-martialed for a mysterious firefight in Syria
27. Afghanistan Was Lost in the Halls of Harvard
28. Air Force general to review errant Kabul drone strike, make recommendations for discipline
 

Korean News Content:

1. UN chief hopes for progress in inter-Korean ties during meeting with S. Korean president
2. More than 1 million people watched the U.N. General Assembly online — when K-pop band BTS took to the podium
3. What Do North Korea’s Latest Missile Launches Mean?
4. The US Should Support South Korea’s Nuclear Submarine Aspirations
5. OECD ups 2021 growth outlook for S. Korean economy to 4 pct
6. The Korean Peninsula's Missile Race
7. north Korea: Where we're going, we don't need roads
8. North-South divide: only Koreans themselves can find a way out of the impasse
9. How North Korea Became One Of The Few Countries With Nuclear Weapons
10. Why the Korean War Has Not Formally Ended
 

9/20/2021 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

Mon, 09/20/2021 - 9:24am

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National Security News Content:

1. Biden pitching partnership after tough stretch with allies
2. US encircling China on multiple new Cold War fronts
3. Governments around the globe are limiting online services, content and access
4.  What Went Wrong in Afghanistan: A Primer 
5. Will the U.S. Navy Defend Taiwan From China?
6. Our remote warfare counterterrorism strategy is more risk than reward
7. AUKUS and Australian Nuclear Submarines: Just the Beginning?
8. China's military has an Achilles' heel: Low troop morale
9. How the U.S. Helped, and Hampered, the Escape of Afghan Journalists
10. A plan for rooting out extremism in the military: report
11. AUKUS is a victory for freedom, democracy and the rule of law
12. How the U.S. Nailed the Economic Response to Covid-19
13. Will Turkey’s Détente with Egypt and the Gulf Extend to the Horn of Africa?
14. Biden Says 'America's Back.' The World Has Some Questions
15. After 20 years of waging religious guerrilla warfare, Taliban fighters in Kabul say they miss the battle
16. US-China relations: two economies linked by financial risk can’t afford to go to war
17.  America's plan to build 747 arsenal ships packed with cruise missiles
18. The USA, China, and the “Whole of Society” approach
19. NEIL MACKAY'S BIG READ: Disney makes you sad. Jane Austen teaches you to kill ... meet the Scots genius who reveals all on the psychological science of stories

Korean News Content:

1.  N. Korea discounts S. Korea's new SLBM as 'clumsy product' in 'elementary' development stage
2. S. Korea to deploy homegrown SLBM next year: sources
3. N.K. says U.S-Australia submarine deal 'extremely undesirable,' vows to take counteraction
4. Highways clog with traffic as Chuseok exodus is in full swing
5. Ruling party chief says U.S. policy on N. Korea remains too 'vague'
6. North Korea warns U.S. risks "nuclear arms race" over submarine deal with Australia
7. North Korea's nuclear programme going 'full steam ahead', IAEA chief says
8. The U.S. Just Made Travelling to North Korea Easier—For Some
9. The South Korean Writer Locked Up for Daring to Go North: Hwang Sok-yong’s Memoir The Prisoner

9/19/2021 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

Sun, 09/19/2021 - 12:09pm

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National Security News Content:

1. Hope for the Lost Souls of Liberalism
2. Southeast Asian Nations Cautious Over New AUKUS Defense Pact
3. CIA warned children were possibly present seconds before US missile killed 10
4. Afghan family ravaged by U.S. drone strike mistake wants headstones for the dead — and possible new life in America
5. How anti-terror Washington turns itself into terrorist
6. ‘Horrible Mistake’: Pentagon Admits Drone Strike Killed Children, Not Terrorists
7. Islamic State trying to spread in India through constant propaganda online: NIA
8. Fueling the Fire: How Social Media Intensifies U.S. Political Polarization — And What Can Be Done About It
9. Pentagon acknowledges Aug. 29 drone strike in Afghanistan was a tragic mistake that killed 10 civilians.
10. As US Schools Prioritize Diversity Over Merit, China Is Becoming the World’s STEM Leader
11. Trade Versus Subs: The Risky U.S. Tradeoff in the Asia-Pacific

Korean News Content:

1. Are 'North Korean defectors' traitors?
2. Photos show North Korea expanding uranium enrichment plant
3.  Kim Yo-Jong Has Tough Words for South Korea
4. Trump reportedly called North Korean leader Kim Jong Un a 'lunatic': book
5. Moon heads to New York for U.N. speech during Chuseok holiday in Korea
6. New cases fall below 2,000 amid concerns about spike in outbreaks after Chuseok holiday
7. Korean-American staff members of U.S. Congress hold first public meeting with Korean Amb.
8. No decision yet on FM talks with Japan in New York: S. Korean official

9/18/2021 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

Sat, 09/18/2021 - 10:42am

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National Security News Content:

1.  ‘It was a mistake.’ CENTCOM admits Aug. 29 drone strike killed civilians, not ISIS
2. Austin Swears in Pentagon's New Special Operations Chief
3. American Power After Afghanistan: How to Rightsize the Country’s Global Role
4.  Kyiv Airing Disappointment With Western Policies
5. Is the AUKUS alliance meaningful or merely provocation?
6. US-Australia submarine deal rocks NATO alliance
7. In Panjshir, Few Signs of an Active Resistance, or Any Fight at All
8. Labeling The Founding Documents ‘Offensive’ Is Just The Beginning Of The National Archives’ Spiteful Plans
9. This Marine officer wants to charge a general with ‘dereliction of duty’ over Afghanistan. (He can’t)
10.I Know General Milley, and He Was Just Doing His Job By James Stavridis
11. The Milley Miasma
12. Perspective | Milley’s calls reflect a crisis. But it’s not a military crisis.
13. Scientists created the world's whitest paint. It could eliminate the need for air conditioning.
14. How Chinese Strategists Think AI Will Power a Military Leap Ahead
15. Russian-Made Mi-17 Helicopter Flown By Secretive U.S. Unit Lands In Farmer's Field
16. 79 years after the first submarine-launched commando raid, Navy SEALs say it hasn't gotten any easier
17. How America Forgot It Needed to Understand The Enemy
18. Biden prepares to host historic ‘Quad’ summit at White House
19. The Taliban PR Campaign Has Not Ended, But Transformed

Korean News Content:

1. North Koreans Resentful of Missile Launches Amid Hunger and Poverty
2. U.S. remains open to dialogue with N. Korea: State Dept.
3. Six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear program may resume in 2021 — source
4. An arms race is heating up on the Korean Peninsula. Is the window for diplomacy closing?
5. North Korea Is on a Mission to Kill U.S. Missile Defenses
6. Peace process paradox: Why Moon is bolstering S. Korea’s armaments
7. EXPLAINER: Kim's launches show push to boost nuke arsenal
8. It’s the Launcher, Not the Missile: Initial Evaluation of North Korea’s Rail-Mobile Missile Launches
9. China's August exports to North Korea up for third month
10. BTS heads to New York for U.N. event as special presidential envoy