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National Security News Content:

1. Opinion | It Shouldn’t Fall to Veterans to Clean Up Biden’s Mess
2. As the Taliban Tighten Their Grip, Fears of Retribution Grow
3. France and UK to propose Kabul safe zone at UN meeting, says Macron
4. The Final Retrograde from Afghanistan Has Officially Begun
5. Who Will Trust Us after Afghanistan? by Bing West
6. Kabul is only the start: US allies feel the draught as Biden turns his back
7. The deaths of 2 Marines in Kabul underscore the evolving roles of women in the military
8. Who Abandoned Bagram Air Base?
9. American-Born Disinformation is Harming U.S. Allies—Just Ask the Baltics.
10. The World Economy’s Supply Chain Problem Keeps Getting Worse
11.US military must prepare for POW concerns in the deepfake era
12. A Harvard professor predicted COVID disinformation on the web. Here’s what may be coming next
13. New research points to role of social media in stoking division in U.S.
14. How Biden Can Save His China Strategy After Afghanistan
15. U.S. Used a Special Hellfire Missile in Afghanistan Airstrike on Islamic State
16. Taliban: US airstrike hits suicide bomber targeting airport
17. All in or All Out? Biden Saw No Middle Ground in Afghanistan.
 

Korean News Content:

1. Seoul's nuclear envoy to visit Washington for talks on N. Korea
2. Seoul, Washington expected to hold in-depth talks over humanitarian aid to Pyongyang
3. Of All Things, North Korea Tried to Buy Lexuses Last Year
4. Military sources peep indigenous nuclear submarine
5. Korea's contentious 'fake news' bill at crossroads
6. 'Escape from Mogadishu' becomes No. 1 hit movie this year
7. The advent of ‘K-tyranny’
8. (Korean) Air Force chief, U.S. space commander agree to form consultative body on space policy
9. Ethnic Chinese Leaving North Korea Sign Pledge Not to Return Through 2023

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National Security News Content:

1. Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: Late August
2. ‘I demand accountability’: Marine battalion commander calls out senior leaders for Afghanistan failures
3. Marine commander who demanded ‘accountability’ for Afghanistan failures is relieved of his duties
4. US intelligence community review does not determine origin of Covid-19
5. As U.S. Troops Searched Afghans, a Bomber in the Crowd Moved In
6. Afghanistan and the big flaw in US counterinsurgency doctrine
7. To Honor the Fallen, Americans Must Learn the Right Lesson from Afghanistan
8. Operation Pineapple Express Saw Special Ops Vets Lead The Rescue Of Hundreds Of Afghans
9. He was a baby on 9/11. Now he’s one of the last casualties of America’s longest war.
10. The Campfire v. the Podium: the Persuasive Power of Storytelling
11. Lawmakers Probe State Dept Decision to Scuttle Plan for Crisis Response Bureau Months Before Afghan Catastrophe
12. Opinion | What ISIS-K Means for Afghanistan
13. 'Food fight': Lawmakers jockey for $6B in funding after Afghan military's collapse
14. Conservatives are backing Afghanistan's resistance movement
15. U.S. Holds Talks With Taliban Over Post-Aug. 31 Presence in Afghanistan
16. FDD | What We Know—and Don’t Know—About ISIS-K
17. Intervention: Unlearned Lessons, or the Gripes of a Professional
18. An army of veterans and volunteers organizes online to evacuate Afghans, from thousands of miles away
19. Spirit of America and Afghanistan emergency update
20. Most Americans say the declining share of White people in the U.S. is neither good nor bad for society
21. A heavily fortified C.I.A. base in Kabul has been destroyed.
22. The Taliban’s vast propaganda machine has a new target
23. A Family Remembers The 1st U.S. Soldier Killed In The War In Afghanistan
24. Henry Kissinger on why America failed in Afghanistan

Korean News Content:

1. Biden Foreign Policy Tracker Korea
2. 'Operation Miracle' complete with 390 Afghan arrivals (South Korea)
3. Could South Korea Be The Next In Line After Afghanistan’s Fall – OpEd
4. No 'unusual activity' from Pyongyang on conclusion of US, South Korea military drills
5. The U.S. Withdrawal from Afghanistan and Its Meaning for S.Korea
6. Young Koreans lash out at heavy-handed China
7. A Policy of Public Diplomacy with North Korea
8. Biden’s North Korea Policy : Alliance Transformation before Denuclearization
9. Debating North Korea: US and Chinese Perspectives
10. Afghan crisis reignites debates on refugee acceptance in Korea
11. North Korea Detainees Reveal Torture Methods For Violations Including Snoring
12. Unification minister promises efforts for wise use of inter-Korean cooperation fund
 

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August 27, 2021 | FDD Tracker: August 11 – August 27, 2021

Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: Late August

Trend Overview

Edited by Jonathan Schanzer

Welcome back to the Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker. Two times per month, we ask FDD’s experts and scholars to assess the administration’s foreign policy. They provide trendlines of very positive, positive, neutral, negative, or very negative for the areas they watch. These past two weeks have been exceedingly difficult for the Biden administration, as the Taliban have retaken Afghanistan in the wake of the U.S. withdrawal. The White House is now in damage-control mode, and its foreign policy is under fire across the board. This is reflected here with only one portfolio trending positive (Russia) and a few more trending neutral. Will the president’s foreign policies rebound? Check back in two weeks to find out.

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National Security News Content:

1. Inside the Hidden War Between the Taliban and ISIS
2. After Decades of War, ISIS and Al Qaeda Can Still Wreak Havoc
3. In Taliban-Ruled Afghanistan, Al Qaeda-Linked Haqqani Network Rises to Power
4. For First Time, Half of Americans Favor Defending Taiwan If China Invades
5. Kori Schake on why America should keep faith in the rules-based order
6. Lawmakers, veterans step in to help Americans, Afghan allies escape Afghanistan
7. Crisis Management Lessons from the Clinton Administration's Implementation of Presidential Decision Directive 56
8. ‘A Total F*cking Disaster’: Inside Seth Moulton’s Secret Trip to Kabul
9. The Roads Not Taken in Afghanistan
10. US special operations vets carry out daring mission to save Afghan allies
11. A Better Approach to Organizing Combatant Commands
12. Amid Afghan Chaos, a C.I.A. Mission That Will Persist for Years
13. Former Green Beret asks SF vets to tell their stories for future generations
14. A Stranded Interpreter, and the Soldiers Who Would Not Let Go
15. Glitch in FBI's 'Palantir' allowed unauthorized access to private data
16. Budding Resistance to the Taliban Faces Long Odds
17. Behind Enemy Lines: Will America Face an Afghan Hostage Crisis?
 

Korean news Content:

1. North Korea remains unresponsive to South Korea's hotline calls even after joint exercise wraps up
2. Seoul's vice defense chief calls for N. Korean cooperation
3. North Korean border guards kill man along the border, leaving his body in place for two weeks
4. N.Korea Scared of Dissent Among Young People
5. Repatriated remains of soldiers show South Korea and China have restored military cooperation
6. The silly Peace Agreement proposed by the U.S. House of Representatives…who is behind the ‘Peace on the Korean Peninsula Act’?
7. Criticism of 'fake news' bill rises within ruling party
8. The Trouble With South Korea’s ‘Fake News’ Law
9. USFK reports cluster infection at Osan base after recent no-mask dance party
10. Military officers deployed to work on makeshift structures on North Korea-China border
11. Hyesan residents complain about being forced to come up with recycleables
12. Controversial Comedy Movie Returning To Netflix
13. UN asks N Korea to clarify alleged shoot-on-sight orders
14. ‘We were punch bags’: North Korean prison beatings form of torture, says UN
15. North Korea’s Potential Long-Term Prison-Labor Facility at Sŏnhwa-dong (선화동)
16. U.S. currently has enough capabilities to counter N. Korean threat: Strategic Commander
17. N. Korea's main paper urges ideological education for youth ahead of anniversary
18. For North Korean Defectors, Pandemic Severs Few Remaining Links to Home
 

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National Security News Content:

1. The Media Manufactured Biden’s Political ‘Fiasco’ in Afghanistan
2. Winning Ugly: What the War on Terror Cost America
3. Mission Afghanistan: Advice for A US Special Operations Unit (2009)
4. Masters and Commanders: Are Civil-Military Relations in Crisis?
5. $6,500 on a charter plane to escape from Afghan hell
6. CIA, U.S. Troops Conduct Missions Outside Kabul Airport to Extract Americans, Afghan Allies
7. U.S. Still Searching for Americans in Afghanistan as Deadline Closes In
8. Three Aircraft Carriers. Dozens Of Stealth Fighters. A Powerful Allied Battle Group Has Gathered Near China.
9. All Rapport, No Results: What Afghanistan’s Collapse Reveals About the Flaws in US Security Force Assistance
10. Rejecting Covid Inquiry, China Peddles Conspiracy Theories Blaming the U.S.
11. Opinion | ‘Anyone Got Any Helos Sitting Around?’: How a Private Network Is Using a Messaging App to Rescue Afghans
12. The Right Way to Structure Cyber Diplomacy
13. Breaking: Female college student first to graduate from Army's 'toughest' special operations course
14. The 2 lawmakers who secretly went to Kabul said there is 'no way we can get everyone out' by Aug. 31 and the only way to work with the Taliban is leave on time
15. Fix JPME? Look to the Carlisle Scholars Method
16. Spies for Hire: China’s New Breed of Hackers Blends Espionage and Entrepreneurship
17. How exile changed the Taliban
18. U.S. Says 1,500 Americans Remain in Afghanistan as Evacuation Enters Final Days
19. Where the U.S. is taking Afghans evacuated from Kabul
20. Opinion | Biden made the hard choice in Afghanistan, and the right one
21. How China's ultra-loyal web army can silence Beijing's critics
22. Italian military plane fired at as it left Kabul airport - defence source
23. Taliban take over some U.N. premises, curb movement -U.N. report
 

Korean News Content:

1. N.K. propaganda outlet denounces S. Korea-U.S. military drill as 'playing with fire'
2. N.K. paper urges military's absolute obedience to ruling party on Army-First Day
3. Afghans airlifted to Korea to be granted long-term visas
4. Korea, US set to wrap up summertime combined exercise
5. N. Korea to convene parliament as economic woes cause strain
6. U.S. Envoy Calls for Bilateral Talks with North Korea
7. U.S. Relations With the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea - United States Department of State
8. US approves $258 million arms sale to South Korea
9. Seoul could be a better ally to Washington
10. 'Fake news’ bill faces global criticism for ‘gagging press’
11. 'We will never forget' (Hungnam, north Korea evacuation)
12. The Afghanistan Collapse: How Does North Korea See It?
13. Proposed media act revision won't apply to foreign news organizations: ministry
14. Inside North Korea: its people at work, rest and play – in pictures
 

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National Security news Content:

1. Review | Are the Navy SEALs actually awful at their jobs?
2. Reports: Biden to stick with Aug. 31 deadline for Afghanistan evacuations
3. Biden’s America is confused — and so is the world
4. Afghan military officers: We fought hard but Biden "abandoned" us
5. What Will the Taliban Do With Their New US Weapons?
6. Fury, "disgust" in D.C. that thousands of Afghans will be left behind
7. Opinion | I Commanded Afghan Troops This Year. We Were Betrayed.
8. How we as a nation — and I as a military officer — failed in Afghanistan by Gen. Ben Hodges
9. How One Tech Entrepreneur Is Scaling Up Veteran-Led Evacuation Efforts
10. Two Congress members fly to Kabul, infuriate DoD, White House
11. Breaking hearts and minds: The strategy of surrender
12. Extend the Afghan mission now, before it's too late
13. Taliban transformed by haul of advanced U.S.-made weapons; lawmakers demand answers
14. The Story Of How An Afghan Interpreter And His Family Escaped Afghanistan
15. What Will the Taliban Do With Their New US Weapons?
16. Biden must tell Beijing: 'War means instant independence for Taiwan'
17. Intel just signed a major chip-making deal with the Pentagon, and it could help the US solve its semiconductor problem
18. US to build military base in middle of Pacific Ocean
19. I served in Afghanistan as a US Marine, twice. Here’s the truth in two sentences
20.  The Taliban Victory as a Victory of Faith
21. Act Now to Save and Learn the Lessons of the Afghan War
22. Biden pushes to complete Afghan evacuation by Aug. 31 — but orders backup plan
23. The US and Taliban are heading to a confrontation over the Kabul airport if thousands of Americans and allies don't get out in the next 7 days
24. Harris visits McCain memorial in Vietnam to mark anniversary of his death
25. ‘By Water Beneath the Walls’ Review: Precision Instruments (SEAL Book Review)

Korean News Content: 

1. North Korea’s Nuclear Family: How the Kims Got the Bomb and Why They Won’t Give It Up
2. Korea airlifts 391 Afghans to Incheon
3. ‘Moral responsibility’: South Korea is airlifting hundreds of Afghans out of Kabul
4. US Special Envoy for North Korea Visits South Korea
5. Korea takes Afghan refugees in show of US loyalty
6. Four reasons for an ‘end of armistice’ declaration
7. Seoul Ranked 25th Safest City in the World
8. Three Chinese sailors gunned down after landing on North Pyongan Province island
9. North Korea's foreign ministry defends Cuba's capture of American, boat seizure as 'legitimate measure'
10. North Korean students mobilized to help out with flood relief during vacation
11. Can food kindness win over North Korea?
12. The Cycle Begins Anew In North Korea – OpEd
13. Moon names new secretary for New Southern and Northern policies
14. Fat-Shaming, North Korea Style
15. California celebrates ‘Kimchi Day,’ declaring S. Korea as origin
16. Biden should end North Korea travel ban, humanitarian and advocacy groups say
 

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National Security News Content:

1. CIA Director William Burns held secret meeting in Kabul with Taliban leader Abdul Ghani Baradar
2. Beijing’s American Hustle by Matt Pottinger
3. In Southeast Asia, Kamala Harris’s Message: You Can Count on the U.S.
4. Why America keeps building corrupt client states
5. Massive veterans group uses intel, satellite images to direct Afghan interpreters around Taliban checkpoints
6. Story Telling and Strategy: How Narrative is Central to Gray Zone Warfare
7. Opinion | The Afghanistan outcome is ugly. Biden was still right to say: Enough.
8. How Will the Taliban Rule?
9. Afghanistan in the 1950s: Back to the Future [Full Documentary] - BBC News
10. More resilient UN system - with Taiwan in it
11. The Taliban’s Aug. 31 ‘Red Line’
12. Taliban may have biometric data of US military aides
13. Twenty Years After 9/11, Are We Any Smarter?
14. Can America’s Withdrawal From Afghanistan Help Its China Strategy?
15. Did the War in Afghanistan Have to Happen?
16. Is the Panjshir Valley the Taliban’s Achilles Heel?
17. Latest on Afghanistan: U.S.-Taliban meeting reported, UN issues warning on human rights
18. UN Rights Body Needs to Investigate Abuses in Afghanistan
19. With Chinese and Russian knives at the throat of GPS, Senate calls for a study, waits for administration to follow law
20. How Afghanistan rattled Asia and emboldened China
21. Afghanistan: The War That Made War Normal

Korean news Content:

1. 3 military planes carrying out operations to bring Afghan evacuees to South Korea: foreign ministry
2. Lessons from Afghanistan (for South Korea)
3. Unification minister hold talks with U.S. nuclear envoy on N. Korea
4. Korea likely to allow Afghans here to overstay visas
5. North Korean paper calls for Japan to make reparations for colonial-era brutality
6. Washington and Seoul Seek to Diversify the South Korea-US Alliance Through Cyber
7. North Korea is yet to begin covid vaccinations as delays hamper U.N.-backed rollout
8. FM Chung meets new USFK commander, discusses alliance, peninsula issues
9. British aircraft carrier calls off planned port call at S. Korean port due to pandemic
10. Scenes of North Korea Captured by Super Telephoto Lens (2) People Trapped in a "Cage"
11. North Korea aired a cartoon warning against obesity and overeating amid a national food shortage
12. What Does the Afghanistan Disaster Mean for the U.S.-ROK Alliance? Nothing.
13. Korean Americans Await Biden's Decision On North Korea Travel Ban
14. U.S. Scraps Plan to Use S.Korea, Japan Bases for Afghan Refugees -Sources
15. Seoul: Russian senior diplomat discussed prospects for resuming dialogue with North Korea