Grant Newsham
Japan Forum for Strategic Studies
Senior Researcher
Col USMC (ret)
The United Nations Sanctioned North Korea last week, Japan says that there will be no negotiations until the Korean Peninsula is denuclearized and South Korea is launching cruise missiles from aviation platforms. Our Pacific Rim specialist Grant Newsham, Col USMC (ret) helps us make sense of it.
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Montana Man
aka Rob Schwarz
LtCol USMC (ret)
On a tough day for the Department of the Navy we talk about collisions at sea and what to do with Confederate Monuments and the names of US Army bases named for Confederate Generals with two retired Marine Officers: Col Phil Smith, USMC (ret) and LtCol Rob Schwarz, LtCol USMC (ret).
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Phil Smith is a retired as a Colonel from the Marine Corps and is a student of history. He joined us to talk about how we should treat the history of the Civil War, the post-civil war period and slavery.
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Grant Newsham
Japan Forum for Strategic Studies
Senior Researcher
Col USMC (ret)
Would China actually allow the Korean Peninsula to fall into western hands if North Korea struck first or would they intervene?
Could Chine effect a regime change in North Korea if it so chose?
Will India go to war over the territorial disagreement that has Chinese and Indian troops facing each other?
Grant Newsham, Col USMC (ret) joins us to talk about it.
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Grant Newsham
Japan Forum for Strategic Studies
Senior Researcher
Col USMC (ret)
Monday, June 12 2017 — Hour 2
Grant Newsham, Col USMC (ret), and our Pacific Rim Security expert joined us to interpret the latest events from the Korean Peninsula, (1) South Korea pausing the THAAD battery deployment, (2) North Korea’s surface-to-ship missile demonstration and (3) American diplomats singing China’s praises for pressuring North Korea with no apparent evidence of progress.
We also discuss the ongoing siege on Mindanao between the Philippine Army partnered with US Special Forces and Islamic Fundamentalists which is the latest chapter in the a decades old conflict.
A GREAT translator of things in the Western Pacific.
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