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Irregular Warfare: A Case Study in CIA and US Army Special Forces Operations in Northern Iraq, 2002-03

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National Security News Content:

1. FINESSING PRIMACY – Some military considerations before subversion does us in Part One
2.  FINESSING PRIMACY – Some military considerations before subversion does us in Part Two
3.  “Psychological” isn’t a dirty word
4. Japan’s Military Role in the Indo-Pacific
5. Sizing The Navy: Why It Takes More Warships To Prevent Conflicts Than To Win Them
6. The Militant Drone Playbook
7. Stunning Speed of Taliban Offensive Brings Afghan Government's Control Into Question
8. No rules and no borders: Inside a future cyberwar
9. General Officer Assignments
10. ‘Close to the danger zone’: Security experts warn about increasing possibility of war over Taiwan
11. Media And Western Governments Give Little Chance To Non-Violence As A Tool Of Political Change – OpEd
12. Biden Wants To Reengage With The World, But His Ambassadors Are Mostly Absent
13. China is banning karaoke songs that endanger national unity
14. What's Missing from US Missile Defense? Pentagon Aims to Find Out
15. Another ICBM test successful, Air Force says
16. Speed of Taliban Advance Surprises Biden Administration, Dismays U.S. Allies
17. US keeping distance as Afghan forces face Taliban rout
18. Opinion | With a closer look, certainty about the ‘existential’ climate threat melts away
19. America Still Needs to Rebalance to Asia
20. Why is the Taliban on such a winning streak, and can the tide be turned?
21. How Identity Propaganda Is Used to Undermine Political Power
22. CCP outsourcing propaganda campaigns to content farms in Taiwan and Australia: Think tank
23. Why Asian-Americans are embracing a common identity

Korean New Content:

1. U.S. draws line with concessions for North through military drills
2. North Korea Issues Warning Over South Korea-US Joint Military Exercises
3. The Case for a New North Korean Nuclear Deal
4. North Korean envoy calls for cooperation with Russia to counter United States
5. Robert King calls for US attention on North Korean human rights
6. North's spies allegedly on NIS's radar for over 2 decades
7. N.K. envoy demands U.S. troops' withdrawal from S. Korea, denounces military drills as war rehearsal: TASS
8. NSC urges N. Korea not to escalate tensions over allies' defense drills
9. N. Korea unresponsive to S. Korea's hotline calls for 3rd day
10. Report: North Korea, U.N. agencies move forward with COVID-19 vaccine plans
11. North Korea: Heavy flooding destroys homes, farmland
12. Violators of North Korea's quarantine protocols sent to "total control zones"
13. North Korea deploys military units to South Hamgyong Province for post-monsoon recovery operations
14. Kim Jong Boom: Un's Sister Brands US-South Korea Drills A Rehearsal For Nuclear War
15. N. Korea Returns to 'Old Playbook' of Confrontation, Dialogue
16. How North Korean Spies Posed as Defectors to Get Eyes on the South

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National Security News Content:

1. Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: Early August
2.  Deceptions and lies: What really happened in Afghanistan
3. Sasha Baker tapped for lead policy role at Pentagon
4. Mara Karlin confirmed to lead Pentagon strategy
5. Tucker Carlson’s Spying Allegations Being Investigated by National Security Agency Watchdog
6. Duckworth Calls for Closer Ties to Taiwan, More U.S. Vaccine Diplomacy
7. Renowned epidemiologist says the world 'is closer to the beginning than the end' of the pandemic
8. China boosts Olympic gold medal count by lumping in Hong Kong, Taiwan
9. No, the unvaccinated aren't selfish or ignorant. Here's why I'm not vaxxed | Opinion
10. Chinese hackers disguised themselves as Iran to target Israel
11. Report: China Is Hacking Russia, Too
12. Climate Change Is Already Disrupting the Military. It Will Get Worse, Officials Say
13. Wagner: Scale of Russian mercenary mission in Libya exposed
14. NSA Awards Secret Up-to-$10B Contract to Amazon
15. The Words the AP Didn’t Want to Use
16. Cybersecurity Firm Mandiant Uncovers Chinese Espionage Group UNC215’s Activity in Israel
17. A Reluctant Embrace: China’s New Relationship with the Taliban
18. Another $158 billion for Xi Jinping
19. Why America Loses Wars
20. Did archaeologists find the Trojan Horse?
21. How to Avert A Disaster in Afghanistan
22. Opinion | An undeclared war is breaking out in cyberspace. The Biden administration is fighting back.
 

Korean News Content:

1. Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: Early August (Korea)
2. U.S. Computer Games Have Kim Jong Un’s Little Sister Raging About ‘Nuclear War’
3.  Biden should pressure Kim Jong Un — and help the North Korean people
4. Why The Number of North Korean Refugees in the United States Is So Low
5.  U.S. holds no hostile intent toward N. Korea: State Dept.
6. Senior diplomats of S. Korea, U.S. hold phone talks after N.K. berates allied exercise
7. After NK warning, South on watch for response to drills
8. A big backfire (Kim Yo-jong's statements and South Korean response)
9. Kim Yong Chol, Department Director of WPK Central Committee, Issues Press Statement 
10. Ex-USFK heads worry about politicization of joint drills
11. N. Korea refuses to answer S. Korea's hotline calls for 2nd day
12.  N. Korea says it will make S. Korea, U.S. feel serious security crisis every minute
13. Cheong Wa Dae: No secret deal behind reconnection of hotlines with N. Korea
14. Group of Chinese residents asked to return to China as border remains closed to trade
15. N.Korea Sulks Again
16. South Korea’s misplaced military inferiority complex
17. South Korea in Uphill Battle to Recover Korean War Remains
18. Why Kim Jong Un's sister will not succeed him as North Korea's leader
 

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August 10, 2021 | FDD Tracker: July 29 – August 10, 2021

David Adesnik

Trend Overview

Edited by David Adesnik

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National Security News Content:

1. Biden to Approve Austin's Request to Make COVID-19 Vaccine Mandatory for Service Members
2. Austin Seeks Presidential Approval for Mandatory Troop Vaccinations by Mid-September
3.  Pentagon chief under fire for withholding information about deadly Kenya attack
4. U.S. Special Forces conduct joint training with once-controversial Japanese Special Ops
5. British special forces in Yemen, hunting for group that struck Mercer Street tanker
6. Joe Biden Should Follow George Washington's Lead and 'Inoculate All the Troops’
7. Pentagon moves to mandate coronavirus vaccination for all troops
8. On Afghanistan’s Front Line, There Are No Good Choices
9. A Climate of Catastrophe
10. A Hotter Future Is Certain, Climate Panel Warns. But How Hot Is Up to Us.
11. US deserves to be called world's biggest anti-pandemic failure, report says
12. Statement by President Joe Biden on COVID-⁠19 Vaccines for Service Members
13. ‘Climate change is going to cost us’: How the US military is preparing for harsher environments
14. How will the Pentagon close the homeland missile defense gap?
15. Opinion | Wall Street is failing to protect American investors from the Chinese Communist Party
16. Untying the Gordian Knot: Why the Taliban is Unlikely to Break Ties with Al-Qaeda
17. A Reluctant Embrace: China’s New Relationship with the Taliban
18. As U.S. Leaves Afghanistan, History Suggests It May Struggle to Stay Out
19. Chinese pressure sparks debate on Taiwan’s resilience
20. Strait of Emergency? Debating Beijing’s Threat to Taiwan 
21.  #Reviewing The 2021 Global Risks Report
 

Korean News Content:

1.  N.K. leader's sister slams S. Korea, U.S. over joint military exercise
2.  Kim Yo Jong, Vice-department Director of WPK Central Committee, Issues Press Statement
3. Korea Is Alive (nK propaganda)
4. Pentagon declines comment on N.K. statement on exercises
5. Thousands Evacuate Homes as Heavy Rains Flood North Korea
6. UN, EU: ‘Ready to provide humanitarian aid to N. Korea for flood damage’
7. Activists charged with espionage allegedly used local newspaper for N. Korean propaganda
8. N.K. refuses to answer calls from S. Korea in apparent protest against military exercise
9. Kim Yo-jong keeps banging drum against drill
10. Shocking spy activities (north Korea in South Korea)
11. Report: North Korea likely to reopen land trade routes with China
12. Kim Joon-hyung on How Seoul Can Lead Denuclearization on the Korean Peninsula
13. North Korea: the failure of ‘maximum pressure’ on Kim’s isolated regime
14.  US-South Korea drills drop gauntlet on Pyongyang
15. Iran Became a Military Powerhouse Thanks to North Korea
16. What If Kim Jong-un Dies? It Could Mean Nuclear War.
17. North Korea’s Curious COVID-19 Strategy
18. 3 dynamics shaping the security on the Korean peninsula
19. In This Memoir, Prison Is A Place — And A State Of Mind