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1. As Putin Girds for Protracted War, a New Russian Elite Emerges: Meet the Princelings
2. SOF Week 2024: Ten Innovative Companies to Watch
3. Japan, Philippines Finalize Largest Maritime Security Pact Days After Chinese CG, Militia Aggression In SCS
4. Deconstructing the Hybrid War Waged on America’s Campuses
5. Why I’m Skipping My 50th Reunion at Yale
6. Marines Stop 2 Jordanian Nationals From Attempting to Breach Quantico Marine Base
7. U.S. Fears Undersea Cables Are Vulnerable to Espionage From Chinese Repair Ships
8. The latest veterans, civilians inducted into Special Forces regiment
9. Did colleges give away the store in deals with student protesters?
10. Teledyne FLIR’s ‘new’ Rogue 1 loitering munition has been under SOCOM contract for two years
11. US Special Forces open permanent base in Poland
12. Which Makes Better Soldiers: DEI or Assimilation?
13. The ‘America First’ Chaos Caucus Is Forcing a Moment of Truth
14.  Here’s how the US Army’s multidomain task force is contributing to AUKUS
15. Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping take radically different approaches to warfare
16. As American global hegemony ends, multi-alignment rises
17. Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping Embrace at Beijing, but Will This Marriage of Convenience Blossom Into a Romance?

Korean News Content:

1. Behind Putin Visit, Unease in Beijing Over His Potential Next Stop: North Korea
2. Putin briefed on tourist exchanges with N. Korea, prep for visit under way: Kremlin
3. N.K. delegation returns home from visit to Russia's Far East
4. U.S. military commander in S. Korea during Gwangju uprising dies
5. East Tennessee linked to North Korean identity theft scheme involving thousands of IT workers
6. Powerful diplomacy trumps nuclear weapons for South Korea
7. Editorial: N. Korea converts inter-Korean business into weapons factory – their answer to our goodwill
8. ‘Kim desperately wanted to denuclearize,’ Moon writes in memoirs
9. Yoon credits closer S. Korea-U.S. ties with helping Buddhist relics return home
10. Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping Embrace at Beijing, but Will This Marriage of Convenience Blossom Into a Romance?
 

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1. Opinion: The Biden Administration’s Chicken Kiev Complex
2. Ukraine Asks for U.S. Help in Striking Targets Inside Russia
3. ‘Cold War 2.0’: George Takach on the Evolving World Order
4. Green Beret A-Teams Training On FPV Drones Being Driven By War In Ukraine
5. Officers with Higher Rank Get Better Care than Those with Lower Ranks at Military Hospitals, Study Finds
6. What Makes American Exceptionalism Less Than ‘Exceptional’ – OpEd
7. She left the CIA in frustration. Now her spy novel is racking up awards.
8. Incoming Taiwan president Lai to pledge steady approach to relationship with China
9. Taiwan’s foreign minister says China and Russia are supporting each other's ‘expansionism’
10. Taiwan is selling more to the US than China in major shift away from Beijing
11. Ex-military surgeons embrace new mission: stop Americans from bleeding to death
12. China’s gray zone social media war comes to America
13. Confronting Another Axis? History, Humility, and Wishful Thinking
14. Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, May 17, 2024
15. Israel–Hamas War (Iran) Update, May 17, 2024
16. China-Taiwan Weekly Update, May 17, 2024

Korean News Content:

1. HRNK report sheds light on human rights abuse of N. Korean nuclear scientists
2. U.S. condemns N. Korea's missile launches as UNSC resolution violation
3.VOA:  [Washington Talk] The best deterrent is 'hitting the starting point'... When executing ‘Remove Command’
4. N. Korea slams U.S. over redesignation as uncooperative country in counterterrorism efforts
5. Top U.S. negotiator for defense cost sharing talks arrives in Seoul
6.  Yoon vows to advance freedom, welfare to uphold spirit of 1980 pro-democracy uprising
7. Kim Jong Un guides tactical missile test with ‘autonomous navigation’
8. U.S. expert says N. Korea might ignore Trump if he returns to White House
9. [Column] US troop withdrawal from Korea could be the Acheson Line all over
10. Satellite imagery shows screen installed around important statues in Pyongyang
11. How Trump could push Japan, S Korea to go nuclear
 

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1. The modern face of war: ‘Everything, everywhere, all at once’
2. In Beijing, Xi and Putin left no question of their close alignment in a divided world
3. Will Biden Now Step Up on Ukraine?
4. Four ways US Army’s Pacific chief plans to boost regional land forces
5. U.S. officials see strategic failure in Israel’s Rafah invasion
6. What Israel’s strategic corridor in Gaza reveals about its postwar plans
7. Military sexual assault totals down, but trust among women remains low
8. Ukraine war ramifications in Asia
9. War on the 21st Century Battlefield: Revisiting General Starry’s Conceptual Framework
10. West Point team’s computerized rifle scope adjusts itself in combat
11. The Most Important Factor Hardening China’s Stance on Taiwan
12. US postured to lose without a Standing Combined Joint Task Force in INDOPACOM
13. The Time for Europe to Step Up Is Now
14. Advantage Defense: Artificial Intelligence at the Tactical Cyber Edge
15. How Do Alliances End?
16. Xi takes off the mask: The Beijing tyrant has spent 12 years wrecking China’s image
17. The New Moral Resistance to Putin
18. General Officer Announcements (Army and Air Force)
19. Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, May 16, 2024
20. Israel–Hamas War (Iran) Update, May 16, 2024
21. Putin’s China Visit Highlights Military Ties That Worry the West
 

Korean News Content:

1.Slaves to the Bomb: The Role and Fate of North Korea's Nuclear Scientists (A Human Rights report from HRNK by Robert Collins)
2. American IT Scammer Helped North Korea Fund Nuclear Weapons Program, U.S. Says
3. Kim's sister denies North Korea has supplied weapons to Russia
4. Arizona woman charged in North Korean IT worker scheme that raised millions
5. Charges and Seizures Brought in Fraud Scheme, Aimed at Denying Revenue for Workers Associated with North Korea
6. N. Korea fires short-range ballistic missiles toward East Sea: JCS
7. Ex-president Moon recalls in memoir N.K. leader voiced will not to use nukes
8. N. Korea installing mines, reinforcing barbed wire inside DMZ: source
9. Ukraine war ramifications in Asia
10. N. Korea slams planned S. Korea-U.S. military drills, warns of 'catastrophic aftermath'
11. Kim Jong-un’s daughter draws attention for unusual attire at public appearance
12. New Japanese ambassador to S. Korea vows to do his best for development of bilateral ties
13. US Republican leaders propose NATO-style nuclear agreement on Korean Peninsula
14. N. Korean wholesalers demand market sellers pay in dollars, not yuan
15. N. Korea, China appear to respond to criticism about human rights abuses in seafood factories
16. N. Korea's denial of arms transfers to Russia suggests fears of tougher sanctions: experts
17. House committee passes N. Korean human rights reauthorization act
18. Trump may like to 'solve' N. Korean nuclear problem if reelected: ex-official
19. F-22s Practice Dogfights over the Korean Peninsula with ROK F-35s

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1. The Indigenous Approach Podcast: The Great Philosopher Robin Sage and his Green Beret training applied to 3d Grade, College English class, Business, and Special Forces
2. Retired Army general says employment struggles for military spouses are part of being a family in the service
3. Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, May 15, 2024
4. Israel–Hamas War (Iran) Update, May 15, 2024
5. The Gates of Gaza
6. U.S. Africa Command Launches Multi-Nation Special Warfare Exercise
7. Taiwan Is the New Berlin
8. The new world (dis)order: A clash of values - opinion
9. A lesson from World War II: Appeasement never works
10. Exclusive: US intelligence spotted Chinese, Iranian deepfakes in 2020 aimed at influencing US voters
11. How Will Taiwan’s New President Handle China?
12. Crink: the new autocractic 'axis of evil'
13. US to Boost Output of Bombs Designed to Hit Underground Nuclear Facilities
14. US military says Gaza Strip pier project is completed, aid to soon flow as Israel-Hamas war rages on
15. Mystery in the Alps: A Chinese Family, a Swiss Inn and the World’s Most Expensive Weapon
16. For China, Russia Is Both a Partner and a Predicament
17. As Hamas returns to the north, Israel’s Gaza endgame is nowhere in sight
18. Putin and Xi deepen partnership and scold the United States
19. The Army has stepped up its training for tunnel warfare, a dangerous — and growing — form of combat
20. Exclusive: Driver’s Attempt at Breaching Quantico Gate Echoes Deadly Incidents at White House, U.S. Military Bases
21. U.S. lays out plans for withdrawing troops from Niger
22. Opinion | The West Doesn’t Understand How Much Russia Has Changed
23.  How, exactly, is TikTok a threat to national security?
24. Chinese Perspectives on the “Indo-Pacific” as a Geostrategic Construct - Mapping China's Strategic Space
25. Techcraft on Display in Ukraine
26. Multi-Dimensional Modeling for Irregular Warfare

Korean News Content:

1. Abandoning the U.S.-ROK Alliance Won’t Prevent War ("The Quiet Part Out Loud – The Desire to Withdraw U.S. Forces from Korea")

2. The Coming North Korean Crisis

3. South Korea Redefines Its Global Role.

4. Crink: the new autocractic 'axis of evil'

5. US to Boost Output of Bombs Designed to Hit Underground Nuclear Facilities

6. South Koreans and Their Neighbors 2024

7. How Chinese surveillance technology helps North Korea keep its citizens on a tight leash

8. The Army has stepped up its training for tunnel warfare, a dangerous — and growing — form of combat

9. Nuclear South Korea? The hidden implication of hints at US troop withdrawal

10. Will North Korea be a bigger threat under Biden or Trump?

11. [INTERVIEW] 'S. Korea's role in N.Korean affairs at risk with Trump's potential return'

12. S. Korea not to send gov't delegation to new Taiwanese leader's inauguration

13. China and Russia Disagree on North Korea’s Nuclear Weapons

14. 4 Korean War memorials in U.S. add term 'East Sea' in reference to sea between S. Korea, Japan

15. Yoon, Cambodian PM agree to establish strategic partnership

16. Turning Back the Clock: The Changing Nature of North Korean Food Insecurity

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National Security News Content:

1. US special ops teams must cut 5,000 troops over next 5 years amid push to recruit technical experts
2. Evaluating the Strategic Expansion of Pentagon Special Ops Training for Allies Amid Global Tensions
3.  The power of relationships and partnerships forged by special ops by Michael K. Nagata
4. US Commander Suggests UK Special Forces Are Active in Ukraine
5. The US is still falling behind on electronic warfare, special operators warn
6. UN Admits Hamas Lied on Casualty Numbers; But the Damage Is Done
7. Army Officer Resigns in Protest of ‘Unqualified’ U.S. Support to Israel
8. The arsenal of democracy is running low on gunpowder
9. How Cobra Gold Helps the US Strengthen Its Indo-Pacific Partnerships
10. Must-Pass Defense Bill Includes 4.5% Military Pay Raise on Top of 15% Increase for Junior Enlisted Troops
11. Putin begins defense ministry purge amid nuclear secrets leak rumor
12. Biden's Latest Policy Failure: West Africa
13. An Army drone branch? Idea advances in House subcommittee
14. GA-ASI and USSOCOM collaborate on ABAD Pod for MQ-9A resilience
15. Putin to meet Xi in Beijing as world convulses from global conflicts
16. America needs to lead in drone warfare
17. Should Taiwan Attempt to Replicate the Zelensky Playbook?
18. Why Iran and Israel Stepped Back From the Brink
19. A UN Trusteeship for Palestine
20. Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, May 14, 2024
21. Israel–Hamas War (Iran) Update, May 14, 2024

Korean News Content:

1. Ex-Pentagon official downplays concerns over possible USFK pullout in case of Trump's election
2. US partnerships with S. Korea, Japan key to making prosperous, secure Indo-Pacific: Campbell
3. North Korea Might Ignore Donald Trump If He Takes Back the White House
4. N. Korea's Kim, daughter attend ceremony for new street in Pyongyang
5. S. Korea, NATO hold 2nd military staff dialogue in Belgium
6. HD Korea Shipbuilding to establish production base in Philippines
7. S. Korea-U.S. alliance will 'incessantly' strengthen regardless of who wins U.S. election: Seoul envoy
8. North Korea warns US allies over surveillance
9. US has no choice but to ‘double down’ on North Korea deterrence: official
10. U.S. Air Force in S. Korea assesses Chinese missile threats
11. Reviving The Six-Party Talks: Why Indonesia Is The Key
12. North's Kim calls for 'epochal change' in war preparations during arms factory visit
13. Seoul dismisses Tokyo's protests over Cho Kuk's Dokdo visit
14. N. Korea slaps temporary ban on sales of rice in some areas of the country
15.  North Korea's nuclear threat: why we must stay the course
16. Destroying South Korea’s HUMINT Capability:  The Framing of Colonel Cheong Kyu-phil; Benefits North Korea, China

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National Security News Content:

1. Pentagon seeks to expand special ops authorities for friendly nations
2. American Special Operations Forces Are At A Crossroads
3. Israel–Hamas War (Iran) Update, May 13, 2024
4.Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, May 13, 2024
5. Philippines Probes Alleged Chinese Disinformation Campaign Over South China Sea
6. AI And Global Security Landscape: Opportunities, Challenges, And Urgent Need For Collaboration
7. Is China Grabbing The South China Sea?
8. Blinken Arrives in Ukraine to Boost Spirits, Funnel U.S. Military Aid
9. The Misfits Russia Is Recruiting to Spy on the West
10. The Biden Administration’s Commitment to Self-Sabotage
11.  Facing Russian Advance, a Top Ukrainian General Paints a Bleak Picture
12. U.S. threats led to rupture of vital military ties, Nigerien leader says
13. File Not Found: Russia Is Hacking Evidence of Its War Crimes
14. Every Arsenal Needs Its Fans: The Missing Piece in the National Defense Industrial Strategy Is Voters
15. Understanding the Counterdrone Fight: Insights from Combat in Iraq and Syria
16. Harnessing GRAT for Irregular Warfare in Great Power Competition
17. Missing in Action: Western Minds
18. Why the Biden Administration's Iran Sanctions Waivers Are Futile

Korean News Content:

1. Ex-Marine who raided DPRK Embassy makes case against extradition to US public
2. A Marine veteran says he tried to help North Koreans in Spain defect. Now he faces the threat of assassination
3. Exclusive: US expert says N. Korea’s rocket factory is Pyeonghwa Motors, visited by ex-S. Korea President Roh
4. Exclusive: South Korean and U.S. special forces commanders set for first meeting in late May
5. Rifle in hand, Kim Jong Un calls for more powerful North Korean weapons
6. Young North Korean recruits tell parents they are fed meager rations
7. Unification minister reiterates need for new unification blueprint
8. S. Korea to stage drills against large-scale aerial attack
9. New Japanese ambassador to S. Korea to take up post this week: sources
10. S. Korea, China agree to work for successful trilateral summit with Japan: Seoul ministry
11. Passenger rail service linking Russia to N. Korea set to resume: official
12. N. Korean municipal delegation heads for Russia's Far East
13. N. Korean science, technology delegation leaves for Russia
14. As relations between China and N. Korea improve, defectors in China worry about repatriations
15. Growing number of defectors in China shelve plans to head to S. Korea

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National Security News Content:

1. Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, May 12, 2024
2. Israel–Hamas War (Iran) Update, May 12, 2024
3. Russia’s defense minister replacement suggests Kremlin preparing for protracted war in Ukraine - ISW
4. Suddenly There Aren’t Enough Babies. The Whole World Is Alarmed.
5. Fighting Flares Anew in Gaza as Hamas Reconstitutes
6. U.S.-China talks on AI risks set to begin in Geneva
7. Russia’s Bombardment of Ukraine Is More Lethal Than Ever
8. New strategic military sites in Philippines exercised in Balikatan
9. Mighty dollar pushes Asian governments to boost currency protection
10. The New Propaganda War
11. The US Army says it wants to recruit more psychological warfare 'nerds'
12. Inside Israel, It’s a Very Different War
13. German Automakers VW, Traton Help to Supply Myanmar Junta With Trucks: Report
14. Assessing the Integration of Artificial Intelligence into National Security Assessments
15. The sights of SOF Week 2024 [Photos]
16. American Aid Ship Heads to Gaza, but the System for Unloading It Still Isn’t in Place
17. Why Israel’s ‘clear and leave’ strategy against Hamas isn’t working by Max Boot
18. Key Takeaways from Biden Administration Report on Israeli Use of US Weapons
19. ‘Civil War’ sends a message that’s more dangerous than the violence it depicts onscreen
20. NATO Cannot Survive Without America
21. America, China, and the Trap of Fatalism

Korean News Content:

1. Exclusive: North Korean nuclear experts lead oppressive lives as “slaves to the bomb”
2. N.K. leader calls for increased artillery capabilities during visit to arms factories
3. Top diplomats of S. Korea, China set to hold talks on bilateral ties, N. Korea
4. N.K. hacking group stole massive amount of personal info from S. Korean court computer network
5. Cuban diplomat visits Seoul for talks on opening embassy
6. Unification minister discusses N.K. threats, bilateral ties with Slovak FM
7. N. Korean defectors send balloons carrying anti-Pyongyang leaflets to North
8. N. Korean support-the-troops program gets a failing grade due to "unethical behavior"
9. ＜Inside N. Korea＞Hungry elderly people flock to government office to demand rice, leading police to mobilize to put down unrest…Hyesan city
10. Warning Shot: America’s strike on China’s embassy 25 years ago sent a strong signal to North Korea
11. Navy conducts live-fire drills in East Sea with Army, Air Force
12. Samsung doubles down on Vietnam
13. Veteran of spy war fights for justice
14. South Korea's increasing need for self-defense
15. Gwangju and the echoes of democracy
16. Despite sanctions, N. Korea continues imports of parts for electronics
17. N. Korean laborers work nights to finish Hwasong residential development project
18. Controversy over 'North Korea praising video' during anti-war demonstrations at U.S. universities

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National Security News Content:

1. US special operations leaders are having to do more with less and learning from the war in Ukraine
2. There’s Not Enough Power for America’s High-Tech Ambitions
3. Moscow hiring gangsters to sabotage Western factories helping Ukraine?
4. Ukraine's pilots are flying high-risk 'wild weasel' missions first developed in the Vietnam War by the USAF, says defense analyst
5. The U.S. Felon Succeeding Putin’s Notorious ‘Chef’
6. THE MONTH IN GREAT POWER COMPETITION ECONOMICS EDITION – A Monthly Report on Great Power Activities and Strategic Intent
7. Henry Huiyao Wang: China Can Play a Greater role in Mediating Major International Conflicts
8. US General: 'Russia will not stop with Ukraine unless they're stopped in Ukraine'
9. Special Forces told about the operation on the left bank of the Kherson region
10. Israel–Hamas War (Iran) Update, May 11, 2024
11. Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, May 11, 2024
12. She Was at the Top of the State Department. Now She’s Ready to Talk.
13. Biden 'is offering Israel top secret intelligence detailing exact locations of Hamas leaders and their hidden tunnels in bid to stave off full-scale invasion of Rafah'
14. The Secret to Talking to an AI Chatbot
15. Yahya Sinwar Helped Start the Gaza War. Now He’s Key to Its Endgame.
16. Fooled by AI? These firms sell deepfake detection that’s ‘REAL 100%.’
17. US Army Chief of Staff reflects on the need for “difficult choices”
18. On a D.C. sidewalk, a race to save a Marine general’s life
19. US Marine officer claims 40% of drones the IDF has shot down were their own, report says

Korean News Content:

1. Senior Official for the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) Pak’s Meeting with People’s Republic of China (PRC) Special Representative on Korean Peninsula Affairs Liu
2. N. Korea expresses full support for Palestinian U.N. membership
3. Spy agency seeks to block access to propaganda song praising NK leader
4. NIS looking into N. Korea's suspected provision of weapons to Russia
5. Seoul remains low-key on China's forced repatriation of NK defectors in hopes for fence-mending, 3-way summit
6. F-4 fighter jets hold farewell flight after over five decades of service
7. North Korea: Thousands held in prison camps while authorities maintain control over speech and clothing
8. FOLLOW-UP: Japan and South Korea are itching to sign up to Aukus. But trust is an issue
9. Korean businesses look self-conscious in front of Washington
10. A provocative sculpture by South Korean artist becomes a highlight of Washington
11. Editorial: South Korea needs urgent action to protect consumers from hazardous Chinese imports