Kim Jong-un: The Unauthorized Biography (Documentary on You Tube)
An hour long  documentary  on north Korea recently published on YouTube.  Some interesting footage and analysis.   I was interviewed for this  documentary  about a year ago and it also includes others such as Dr. Victor Cha, Kieth Luse,  and Ambassador Joe ...

8251st Army Unit - 14th Special Forces Operational Detachment (FD)
Back when we understood operations in a denied area.  When less is more and small units mean agility and resiliency or as Nassim Taleb says "anti-fragility." 1st Special Forces Group Veterans 6 hrs  ·  Sixty years ago today, the 8251st Army Unit was activat...

Global Trends - National Intelligence Council
The NIC is crowd sourcing the next Global Trends report.  Everyone has the opportunity to comment at this link:  https://nicglobaltrends. tumblr.com/submit-a-post Some important concepts here: • The public will have the  opportunity to comment  on the NIC’s...

A Strategic Strangulation Campaign for North Korea: Is the International Community Ready for What May Come Next?
E-Notes A Strategic Strangulation Campaign for North Korea: Is the International Community Ready for What May Come Next? David S. Maxwell March 2016 http://www.fpri.org/article/ 2016/03/a-strategic- strangulation-campaign-for- north-korea-is-the- internatio...

Chinese firm ordered to halt coal trade with N. Korea: state media
This could be a very significant action in conjunction with China's action on banks and north Korean funds.  Has China reached the tipping point with north Korea and is it not going to accept the regime's provocative  behavior any longer?  Is China saying e...

U.S. Special Operations Forces in the Philippines, 2001–2014
The 185 page report can be downloaded directly here.   http://www.rand.org/ content/dam/rand/pubs/ research_reports/RR1200/ RR1236/RAND_RR1236.pdf This excerpt can be summarized as Special Operations Forces simply doing their job by relying on their trainin...

North Korea's nuclear threat: Assessment, global responses and solutions
Below is a special report in the Washington Times for this week's nuclear security summit. There are 39 articles, essays, OpEds from  a wide range of people and Korea watchers (including yours truly) North Korea's nuclear threat: Assessment, global response...

Little Green Men And Red Armies: Why Russian ‘Hybrid War’ Is Not New
I really think this article by Charles Bartles from the Foreign Military Studies Office in the January Military review is very much worth reviewing every time we talk about Russian Hybrid Warfare and Little Green Men.  And Frank Hoffman's recent Heritage ar...

U.S. holds military exercise in South Korea as North threatens war
Jeff Schogol is one of the few journalists willing to take the time to try to understand and write about the north Korean Winter Training Cycle as well its campaign plan to unify the peninsula and explain why we must conduct readiness exercises every year a...

U.S. to fund North Korean groups working toward regime change
Good news here.  Just hope we do not leave people hanging as in Syria and I hope we are in lock-step with our ROK allies. I sure wish State had an Ambassador for Unconventional Warfare to complement its Ambassador for Counterterrorism.  I would direct him o...