Small Wars Journal

10/19/22 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

Wed, 10/19/2022 - 1:53pm

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Access Korean News HERE.

National Security News Content:

1. RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, OCTOBER 18 (Putin's War)

2. Ukraine: CDS Daily brief (18.10.22) CDS comments on key events

3. Retired U.S. generals, admirals take top jobs with Saudi crown prince

4. Key findings from The Post’s series on veterans’ lucrative foreign jobs

5. The U.S. Isn’t Ready to Face China on the Battlefield

6. Russian President introduces martial law in Kherson, Zaporozhye, DPR and LPR regions

7. Iranian Shahed-136 Drones Increase Russian Strike Capacity and Lethality in Ukraine

8. Opinion | The world continues to ignore the radicalization of India

9. Xi Jinping’s Strategy of Conflict

10. 'Massive blackouts' as 30% of Ukraine's power stations destroyed in just over a week, Zelensky says

11. Why Biden's National Security Strategy Is Destined to Fail

12. China’s Surveillance State Pushes Deeper into Citizens’ Lives

13. The Hunt for Phish: How Agents Netted a Terrorist Jewel Thief

14. McCarthy signals GOP-led House likely to oppose more aid to Ukraine

15. Most Ukrainians want to keep fighting until Russia is driven out, poll finds

16. FDD | For Sanctions to Work in Bosnia, EU Must Join the U.S.

17. Homeland Defense in the Information Space: Learning from Russian Influence Campaigns in Eastern Europe

18. Big Tech Goes to War

19. China and the ‘Two Arctics’

20. ASEAN bracing for US-China rivalry to explode

21. Analysis | Americans agree democracy is at risk. They disagree vehemently on why.

Korean News Content:

1. N.K. says it fired artillery shots as 'serious warning' over S. Korea's military drills

2. S. Korea, U.S. hold combined river crossing drills

3. U.S. Ambassador rebukes calls for tactical nuclear weapons

4. Anti-missile radar in full operation in Busan amid growing North Korean threats

5. Digging into the suspicious flow of money (Korea)

6. Bring US nukes back to South Korea to counter Kim Jong Un’s deadly game

7. North fires more shells toward inter-Korean sea buffer zone

8. N.Korea 'Upset' at Stronger U.S.-S.Korea Alliance

9. <Insider Interview>How have North Korea’s people viewed the country’s continued missile launches? With food shortages continuing, their distrust and disinterest in the government is deepening…

10. Facing economic difficulties, many N. Koreans irritated by their government’s continued military provocations

11. Trump Acknowledged in Interview That Letters to Kim Were ‘Top Secret’

12. North Korea is preparing for another nuclear test—or many

13. Op-Ed: How the nuclear weapons taboo is fading

14. ‘Yankees, Go Home!’: Seoul Gets Squeezed Between the U.S. and China