The nation’s current crisis can be traced back, in ways large and small, to the outsize personality of its longest-serving prime minister.

Navigating the Crossroads: ACCMA’s Shift in Civilian Career Management Dave Maxwell Tue, 09/26/2023 – 4:28pm The purpose of this article is to offer for discussion the changing landscape of the Army’s Civilian Career Management. Huge civilian management decisions are currently underway with no inputs from Army senior leadership. These changes, done in a void, lack a clearly defined problem to solve and no in-depth studies have been completed. This will potentially cause serious […]

9/26/23 National Security and Korean News and Commentary Access National Security News HERE. Access Korean News HERE. National Security News Content: 1. Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, September 25, 2023 2. U.S. Abrams Tanks Reach Ukraine. Is It a Case of Too Little, Too Late? 3. Russia appears ready to accept Crimea as Ukraine’s—on one condition 4. Opinion | The United States is morally obliged to secure the release of hostages 5. Tensions With China Cross a New Line […]

Among the vineyards seeded with improvised explosive devices in Zhari, Kandahar, there was no possibility of maneuver. By 2012, the Taliban had place so many improvised explosive devices in the area that any attempt at doing the battle drills taught by the U.S. Army to suppress and maneuver on an enemy were suicide. The Taliban were innovative. They knew that when they ambushed us, we would seek cover and then attempt to maneuver on them. So the Taliban emplaced improvised explosive devices […]

9/25/23 National Security and Korean News and Commentary Access National Security News HERE. Access Korean News HERE. National Security News Content: 1. Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, September 24, 2023 2. Special Operations News – September 25, 2023 | SOF News 3. France to Withdraw Troops From Niger After Military Coup 4. Blasting Bullhorns and Water Cannons, Chinese Ships Wall Off the Sea 5. Philippines to remove barrier placed by China in South China Sea – national […]

Released to the public on Sept. 12, the Department of Defense’s 2023 Cyber Strategy differs from its predecessors in its lack of bold new buzzwords. The 2015 strategy reimagined deterrence for the cyber domain, and the 2018 strategy articulated “defend forward” as a new foundational concept. But despite being informed by years of major cyber developments — the significant legal and policy changes that enabled U.S. Cyber Command to engage in more frequent offensive cyber operations, as […]

President Emmanuel Macron said he had also recalled the country’s ambassador, after weeks of escalating tensions with Niger’s new military leaders.

9/24/23 National Security and Korean News and Commentary Access National Security News HERE. Access Korean News HERE. National Security News Content: 1. Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, September 23, 2023 2. Strategy to Counter China in Pacific at Risk in Congress Budget Fight 3. Russia’s Army Learns From Its Mistakes in Ukraine 4. U.S. Economy Could Withstand One Shock, but Four at Once? 5. Listen to stunning 911 tape after F-35 pilot parachuted into backyard: ‘We had […]

9/23/23 National Security and Korean News and Commentary Access National Security News HERE. Access Korean News HERE. National Security News Content: 1. Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment September 22, 2023 2. China Keeps Trying to Crush Them. Their Movement Keeps Growing. 3. The Art of Partisan Warfare Is Not Dead: How old Russian military theories can give new insight into resistance to occupation in Ukraine 4. Why Our Generals Can’t Think 5. Half of DOD civilians would get […]

9/22/23 National Security and Korean News and Commentary Access National Security News HERE. Access Korean News HERE. National Security News Content: 1. Why America Should Send Military Advisers to Ukraine 2. Wither Political Warfare: The Future of Grey Zone Competition 3. Irregular Warfare Podcast: China’s Political Warfare 4. What is Meaningful Human Control, Anyway? Cracking the Code on Autonomous Weapons and Human Judgment 5. Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, […]