7/1/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary
07.01.2025 at 08:42am
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National Security News Content:
1. I Fought in Ukraine and Here’s Why FPV Drones Kind of Suck
2. For Iran’s Nuclear Program, a Month Is Longer Than It Sounds
3. The winners and losers in a trillion-dollar US defence budget
4. Trump Lifts Sanctions on Syria as It Holds Talks on Diplomatic Ties With Israel
5. Five Errors About Iran’s War on Israel, America, and the West
6. Trump’s Diplomatic Model
7. Trump Seeks to Remake the World
8. The Great Budget Baseline Con
9. FM 3-05 Army Special Operations (June 2025)
10. Thousands of State Department Workers Brace for Layoffs
11. A Strait Comparison: Lessons from the Dardanelles for a Strait of Hormuz Closure
12. Taiwan’s President Takes on China, and His Opponents, in Speaking Tour
13. SOUTHCOM’s TMPI: Towards Integrated Deterrence in the Americas by Building Maintenance Capacity
14. Tolstoy’s Complaint: Mission Command in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
15. Exploring African Perspectives on Irregular Warfare
16. They Demanded Democracy. Years Later, They Are Still Paying the Price.
17. Ukraine Can Still Win: Western Half Measures Have Prolonged the War, but Decisive Action Now Could End It
18. The Arctic Great Game: And Why America Risks Losing It
19. An Industrial Policy With American Characteristics: To Compete Like China, America Should Build Like China
20. There’s a Race to Power the Future. China Is Pulling Away.
21. America owes its Afghan partners more than this
22. China’s new graphite bomb signals shift to silent siege of Taiwan
23. Give the A-10s to Taiwan and they can stop a Chinese sea invasion
24. China is not alone in building a new cult of heroes and martyrs
25. I’m a Conservative Evangelical. I’m Done With the Army.
Korean News Content:
1. Gov’t orders ambassadors appointed by ex-President Yoon to return: sources
2. Seoul says no change in radioactive levels in sea over suspected N.K. nuclear waste discharge
3. N. Korea’s delegation of elite military academy leaves for Russia amid deepening ties
4. Footage shows N.K. leader mourning soldiers believed killed in Russia
5. Hanwha Ocean to build next-gen icebreaking research vessel for polar missions
6. Lee calls for review of development plans for returned U.S. military sites in border region
7. N. Korea executes 23 defense workers in brutal crackdown
8. Smuggled, expired, and deadly: Inside N. Korea’s contraceptive underground
9. N. Korean street vendors vash in on early heat wave
10. South Korea’s Exports Rebound Despite Tariff Woes
11. For South Koreans,‘Squid Game’ Was More Than Just Entertainment
12. Editorial: South Korean government must weigh the true cost of OPCON transfer
13. ‘Who was Kim Jong-un’s mother?’: Journalist searches for answers in new book
14. S. Korea should tap arms makers for new security challenges: think tank
15. S. Korea at heart of Saudi Vision 2030’s smart city project: NMDC CEO
