Small Wars Journal

9/6/23 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

Wed, 09/06/2023 - 8:46am

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National Security News Content:

1. Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, September 5, 2023

2. An Interview with Mike Kofman: On analysing the Russo-Ukraine War

3. John Bolton: Republicans Must Exorcise the Ghost of Neville Chamberlain When it Comes to Ukraine

4. AUKUS standoff: Australia, UK wait on Congress to approve pact

5. An inside look at Ukraine's cyber war with Russia

6. Criminal enterprise flaunts AI in creepy 'fraud-for-hire' commercial meant for dark web

7. AFSOC Power Projection Wing and Unit Relocations | SOF News

8. The Fall from Grace of Russian SOF: The Danger of Forgetting Lessons Learned

9. Opinion | Three service secretaries to Tuberville: Stop this dangerous hold on senior officers

10. It’s Not About Where U.S. Space Command Goes But Whether It Should Exist At All

11. All to Play for: Ukraine's Counteroffensive and its Prospects for Success in 2023

12. A corporal gave a speech in front of the top Marine — and got promoted

13. 3 Bullets, 2 Wars, 1 Village (Ukraine)

14. Putin is developing a sinister new plan for victory (and the relationship with north Korea)

15. SAM Sites Could Return To Critical Locales Across U.S.

16. This cold war is different

17. Russian Pilot Describes Defection to Ukraine, Urges Others to Follow

18. Russian Official Admits ‘Tactical Retreat’ From Robotyne Amid Kyiv’s Gains

19. The world is running out of ‘inflection points’ in the war against authoritarian rule

20. The Russians Are Getting Better

21. The Last Minarets of Yunnan

Korean News Content:

1. N. Korea will pay a price if it provides weapons to Russia: NSA Sullivan

2. Yoon urges immediate halt to attempts to seek military cooperation with N. Korea

3. Putin is developing a sinister new plan for victory (and the relationship with north Korea)

4. Putin’s North Korean Rendezvous (WSJ Editorial)

5. Kim Jong Un-Putin meeting imminent

6. Major arms deal between Kim and Putin 'very likely,' experts say

7. Ex-N. Korean diplomat named special adviser to Seoul's unification minister

8. Yoon sharpens anti-communist rhetoric to appeal to conservatives

9. Air Koryo flights appear halted after brief resumption

10. Yoon calls for unified action against NK threats at summit with Chinese presence

11. Under one flag, UN Command's mission to defend S. Korea continues

12.  S. Korean defense firms to take center stage at armaments exhibition in Poland

13. Yoon calls for int'l unity for N. Korea's denuclearization

9/5/23 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

Tue, 09/05/2023 - 9:11am

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National Security News Content:

1. Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, September 4, 2023
2. What China is Learning from the Ukraine War – And What it Means for the West
3. Special Operations News Update - September 5, 2023 | SOF News
4. Marines’ top general ‘ruthlessly’ rides out Tuberville’s military hold
5. Resisting Russia: Insights into Ukraine's Civilian-Based Actions During the First Four Months of the War in 2022
6. Italy Seeks to Leave China’s Belt and Road Initiative—Without Angering Beijing
7. Exclusive: China to launch $40 billion state fund to boost chip industry
8. Chinese spy agency suggests that a Biden-Xi meeting hinges on "sincerity"
9. Remind Me Again...What Were We Deterring? Cyber Strategy and Why the United States Needed a Paradigm Shift
10. Is Ukraine really interested in fighting corruption?
11. Opinion | America Is an Empire in Decline. That Doesn’t Mean It Has to Fall.
12. Lack of Will: How the All-Volunteer Force Conditioned the American Public
13. GOLDWATER RIPPLES: How Defense Reform Made the Fighting Force More Diplomatic
14. Sneaky War: How to Win the World Without Fighting
15. Putin Races Against the Clock: The Dangers of a Desperate Russia
16. The Future Convergence of AI, IoT, and Quantum Computing in Information Warfare: A Pandora's Digital Box
17. How to Help Ukraine Win the War of Attrition
18.  The US national innovation base has critical weaknesses. Just look at Starlink.
19. Opinion: Don’t thank my husband for his service if you don’t know why he died
20. Introducing the Harding Project: Renewing Professional Military Writing

Korean News Content:

1. Kim Jong-un and Putin Plan to Meet in Russia to Discuss Weapons
2. North Korea’s Kim Jong Un Expected to Meet Putin in Russia
3. Seoul says N. Korea should seek int'l norms-based cooperation amid report of possible Kim-Putin summit
4. N. Korea's Kim likely flaunting daughter at military events to elicit loyalty: Seoul
5. Devotion for People's Wellbeing (north Korea)
6. Kim Jong Un Has Many Reasons to Meet With Vladimir Putin
7. What's behind North Korea's 'nuclear attack' drills?
8. Security Nexus paper on Northeast Asia’s Military Tech & South Korean Defense Implications
9. Culture ministers of S. Korea, Japan, China to meet for 1st time in 4 years
10. Yoon: N. Korea is in worst economic condition since Kim took power
11. Russian Ambassador, ‘DPRK-China-Russia joint training is appropriate’
12. Time to manage Korea’s relations with China
13. Hyesan inminbans encourage people to exchange foreign currency at banks
14. N. Korea continues to export weapons to Russia, Iran, Syria and others
15. <Breaking News>Kim Jong-un regime restarts public executions…Nine people shot to death in Hyesan City on August 30 according to witness
16. Premature to say Kim Jong-un's daughter an heir: Seoul

9/4/23 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

Mon, 09/04/2023 - 11:22am

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National Security News Content:

1. Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, September 3, 2023
2. Ukraine President Zelenskyy says defense minister Oleksii Reznikov will be replaced this week
3. Chinese Gate-Crashers at U.S. Bases Spark Espionage Concern
4. Ukraine’s Zelensky Appoints Crimean Tatar Executive as New Defense Minister
5. Faced With Evolving Threats, U.S. Navy Struggles to Change
6. Low Crawling toward Obscurity: The Army’s Professional Journals
7. Reimagining America’s Professional All-Volunteer Army
8. Perseverance and Adaptation: Ukraine’s Counteroffensive at Three Months
9. Civil-Military Translation: Encoding, Signaling, and Survival
10. ‘Where Is the Money?’ Military Graft Becomes a Headache for Ukraine
11. Analysis: Part of China's economic miracle was a mirage. Reality check is next
12. Spy agencies battling the fentanyl crisis fear their most powerful weapon is at risk
13. The US and Chinese air forces are rethinking whether it's possible to control the air
14. Why Modi Can’t Make India a Great Power
15. Assessing the Development of Taiwanese Identity
16. War, peace and Taiwan’s presidential election
17.Forget deglobalization: AI will make industry more global
18. Ukraine Has Won the Battle to Penetrate Russia’s First Defensive Belt (What Happens Now?)
19. Robin Sage, Fort Liberty combat test for Special Forces, starts later this month in 26 NC counties

Korean News Content:

1. Russia proposed three-way naval exercise with N. Korea, China: NIS
2. U.N. rapporteur for North Korean human rights arrives in Seoul
3. UN rapporteur urged to help lay groundwork to prosecute North Korean leader at ICC
4. South seeks to track and freeze North's crypto assets
5. Yoon likely to ask China, Russia to get tougher on North
6. Russian, Chinese officials likely to attend another North Korean military parade this week
7. Can North Korea play off Russia against China?
8. 'Arsenal of Evil': Why North Korea Could Sell Russia Weapons for Ukraine War
9. Biden’s ‘Hotline’ With Japan and Korea Doesn’t Guarantee Mutual Defense
10. Cause to fear a Russia-N Korea arms nexus
11. N. Korean teacher replaced after encouraging competition among students
12. South Korea warns the North to stop nukes program or risk regime instability
13. Russia proposes joint naval drill with China, North Korea
14. North Korea's Navy Is Starting to Look Like a True Threat
15. Two clothing wholesalers in Pyongsong make fortune from bra-making business
 

9/3/23 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

Sun, 09/03/2023 - 11:23am

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National Security News Content:

1. Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, September 2, 2023
2. War Books: A Crash Course on Clausewitz
3. A year after China cut mil-to-mil contacts with US, a hint of thaw?
4. New phone sparks worry China has found a way around U.S. tech limits
5. How the War in Ukraine is Likely Driving a New World Order
6. How Xi Returned China to One-Man Rule
7. China to Its People: Spies Are Everywhere, Help Us Catch Them
8. Beijing’s Dangerous Flirtation With Hard Power Intimidation – Analysis
9. SOF Can Help Win the Competition for Influence in South America
10. Why Some People Turn Into Political Extremists
11. Gray Zone Tactics Playbook: Spoofing
12. Raimondo says US ‘trying to choke’ China’s military capacity with superconductor limits
13. Palantir: Treading On Thin Ice (NYSE:PLTR)
14. Biden to award Vietnam-era Army helicopter pilot with Medal of Honor
15. The à la carte world: our new geopolitical order
16. West Virginia's foreign language cuts could be a "blueprint" for higher ed attacks
17. Poll: 56% of Americans say debt ceiling fight made them trust government less
18. Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: September
19. Opinion | By Abandoning Civics, Colleges Helped Create the Culture Wars

Korean News Content:

1. N. Korea conducted 'simulated tactical nuclear attack': KCNA
2. Counteraction Drill for Important Purpose Conducted in DPRK
3. Anti-War, Anti-Japan, Anti-Regime Struggle Escalates in Region of S. Korean Puppets
4. In a First, North Korea Publicizes Military Operation to ‘Occupy’ South Korea
5. Kim Jong Un’s foreign policy failures have left the entire peninsula worse off
6. Kim's visits to naval facilities show direction of North Korea's nuclear strategy: experts
7. Japan and South Korea should be invited to join Aukus, UK parliamentary committee says
8. South Korea is working on an 'arsenal ship' in case it has to shower North Korea with missiles
9. Unification ministry considers fine on lawmaker for attending pro-N. Korea group's event in Japan
10. Former North Korean diplomat greets North Korean refugees
11. Bigger isn’t always better: Why the US fails to deter North Korea, despite nuclear superiority
12. Iran, Hovering on the Brink of Producing Its First Warhead, Steps Up Its Nuclear Partnership With North Korea
13. Dream of unification lives forever
14. S. Korea and Japan after Camp David
15. Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: September - Korea
16. The strange, secretive world of North Korean science fiction
 

Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: September

Sun, 09/03/2023 - 10:50am
 

​Read the entire country by country and regional and functional analysis at this link: https://www.fdd.org/policy-tracker/2023/09/01/biden-administration-foreign-policy-tracker-september-3/

 

September 1, 2023 | FDD Tracker: August 3-September 1, 2023

Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: September

Trend Overview

By John Hardie

Welcome back to the Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker. Once a 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.

Aiming to curtail Beijing’s ability to exploit American technology, the Biden administration moved to restrict U.S. investment in China. At the same time, President Joe Biden dispatched Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo to China as part of his — so far unsuccessful — effort to establish a “floor” under ever-worsening relations between Washington and Beijing. Biden did, however, score a big win with a U.S.-Japan-South Korea summit at Camp David, where leaders from the three countries pledged to step up trilateral cooperation.

Meanwhile, Biden has asked Congress for another $24 billion in Ukraine-related funding. As debate heats up in Congress and among GOP presidential candidates, the White House is falling short in explaining to the American people why support for Ukraine serves U.S. interests. A spate of press leaks by administration officials expressing pessimism about Kyiv’s military prospects has only exacerbated skepticism regarding Ukraine aid.I

n the Middle East, the administration continues to pursue a normalization agreement between Israel and Saudi Arabia but has put the potential deal in jeopardy by demanding Israeli concessions to the Palestinians. Meanwhile, the White House struck a hostage-swap deal with Iran that will grant Tehran access to $6 billion.

Check back next month to see how the Biden administration deals with these and other challenges.

FP Tracker

9/2/23 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

Sat, 09/02/2023 - 12:09pm

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National Security News Content:

1. Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, September 1, 2023
2. Analysis: The Beginning of the End of Putin in Crimea
3. Russian ‘hybrid’ war threatens NATO’s eastern flank, Poles warn
4. Opinion | American Power Just Took a Big Hit
5. Three Years After Chinese Communist Crackdown, Hong Kong Continues To Suffer – OpEd
6. ‘Defending democracy’ a losing strategy against authoritarian narratives
7. US ‘counter-disinformation’ efforts need updating
8. As Taiwan's government races to counter China, most people aren't worried about war
9. Attack on Taiwan will bring "resolute reaction" - US
10. Last Gasp of the Neoconservatives
11. Russia is losing in Ukraine but winning in Georgia
12.  Game of Drones: The dangerous rise of military and surveillance warcraft
13. How China Will Take Taiwan
14. Planning for the Next War Must Be a Mixture of Art & Science
15. English Classes For Resettled Afghan Women In Charlotte
16. It Costs Just $400 to Build an AI Disinformation Machine
17. Top Russian Rocket Scientist Dies of Mushroom Poisoning Weeks After Moscow’s Failed Moon Landing
18. With wary eye on China, U.S. moves closer to former foe Vietnam
19. World War II special operations veteran receives Special Forces tab
20. The global human rights regime has collapsed
21. In New Moon Race, Russian Crash Shows the Only U.S. Rival Is China
22. A Brutal Path Forward, Village by Village
23. The Joint Force Needs a Counter-SOF Strategy
24. Biden’s Destiny Is Linked to Ukraine’s
25. U.S. Arms Makers Look Overseas to Boost Stockpiles

Korean News Content:

1. “SELL ME: I Am From North Korea” Washington, D.C. Premiere
2. The North Korea - Russia Alliance Is a Dangerous Threat
3. URGENT: Xi Jinping Has Started Repatriating North Korean Refugees
4. N. Korea fires several cruise missiles into Yellow Sea: JCS
5. NSC convenes emergency meeting after N. Korea's missile launch (ROK)
6. China’s Misinformation Fuels Anger Over Fukushima Water Release
7. The Korean War Continues With Biden’s Renewal Of Travel Ban To North Korea – OpEd
8. Negative Security Assurance and Nuclear Diplomacy: Implications for the Complete Denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula
9. Yoon invites Korean atomic bomb victims in Hiroshima for Chuseok
10. Pres. Yoon: Communist forces incite anti-Japanese sentiment
11. N. Korean Hackers Create Phishing Site to Steal Info of Defectors, Activists
12. Growing crisis in North Korea induced by food shortage
13. The UN Security Council’s First North Korean Human Rights Session since 2017
14.  [WHY] Will the Korean military ever draft women?
15. Economic vision of a unified Korean Peninsula: Starting by forming a consensus
16. U.S. Arms Makers Look Overseas to Boost Stockpiles
 

9/1/23 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

Fri, 09/01/2023 - 9:22am

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National Security News Content:

1. Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment , August 31, 2023
2. Ukraine tells critics of slow counteroffensive to 'shut up'
3. Learning from Russia’s war on Ukraine by John Nagl
4. The War in Winter 2023 – The Coming Ukrainian and Russian Winter Campaigns by Mick Ryan
5. Soldiers, Marines from Kabul evac awarded Presidential Unit Citation
6. With a Village Recaptured, Ukraine Takes the Next Step in Its Counteroffensive
7. Dollars Deployed: How the Weaponization of the U.S. Financial System Contributed to Afghanistan’s Collapse
8. Zelenskyy says Ukraine has developed a long-range weapon, a day after a strike deep inside Russia
9. Opinion | Covid is back. A fruitless national freakout shouldn’t come with it.
10. Why the new covid variant is not cause for concern — yet
11. As Ukraine’s Fight Falters, It Gets Even Harder to Talk About Negotiations
12. Moment Of Drone Strike That Destroyed Russian Il-76s Seen In Infrared Image
13. Analysis | Amid a wave of West African coups, France faces a reckoning
14. Philippines stands up to Beijing in South China sea tussle
15. How Japan Can Make Itself America’s Best Ally By Hal Brands
16. The US Military Is Getting Smaller, Cheaper and Smarter By James Stavridis
17. Ukrainians complete training on Abrams tanks as Kyiv makes battlefield gains
18. China's new national map has set off a wave of protests. Why?
19. Opinion | An Army Special Operations probe sheds light on misogyny in the military
20. How Ukraine’s deep battle is preparing the ground for success
21. The flames of Russian dissent
22. Factors Influencing Strategy: The Objective-Narrative Nexus
23. Beware of Pentagon techno-enthusiasm
24. The Pentagon’s Replicator effort to counter China is the right call
25. US drone swarm program could redefine modern war
26. What Tolstoy Can Teach Us About Geopolitics by Robert D. Kaplan
27. Special Operators Essential for National Strategy
28. How Russian Globalized the War in Ukraine

Korean News Content:

1. U.S. Sanctions Russian Company Over Alleged Support for North Korean Weapons Programs
2. How To Enhance South Korea’s Conventional Deterrent
3. Why Japan and South Korea care about Taiwan
4. Seoul imposes unilateral sanctions on NK firm, 5 individuals linked to WMD financing
5. S. Korea launches drone operations command amid N. Korean threats
6. U.N. rapporteur for North Korean human rights to visit Seoul next week
7. A defector testifies about N. Korean human rights atrocities
8. Yoon warns against spreading falsehoods about Camp David alliance
9. US lawmakers seek to meet UN officials to stop China from sending back N. Korean defectors
10. Pyongyang's missile provocation challenges S. Korean military headquarters
11. N.Korea Practices Occupying S.Korea
12. North Koreans continue smuggling attempts across China-N. Korea border
13. <Inside N. Korea> Report suggests deaths in second largest city of Hamhung
14. US Army engineers float South Korean tanks during ‘wet gap’ drill near DMZ