8/4/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary
08.04.2025 at 10:23pm
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National Security News Content:
1. SOCOM getting new commander after Frank Bradley earns Senate confirmation
2. What is Irregular Warfare?
3. The Pentagon’s New Isolationism
4. Statement by Chief Pentagon Spokesman and Senior Advisor, Sean Parnell, on a Reduction in Force at the Defense Technical Information Center
5. Testing the Waters: Modernization of People’s Liberation Army
6. Renewable Realignment: Europe’s Shift to Renewable Energy and its Implications on US Global Strategy
7. Special Operations News – August 4, 2025
8. The Intelligence Intellectuals: Social Scientists and the Making of the CIA (Georgetown Studies in Intelligence History)
9. When it comes to our Special Forces, we should take a leaf out of America’s book (A view from the UK)
10. US Marines train beach landings Down Under with old allies, new rides
11. Army plans to grow Patriot battalions, plus one for Guam
12. US defense industry vulnerable to China, government watchdog warns
13. How to write a defense strategy that sticks
14. The Secret of George Washington’s Revolutionary Success
15. Drones Aren’t Swarming Yet — But They Could
16. From Tactical Trench Killers to Strategic War Winners: Doctrine, Operational Art, and Tomorrow’s Drone-Enabled Maneuver Warfare
17. A Fight Over a West Point Job Reveals Two Visions of America Under Trump
Korean News Content:
1. S. Korea begins dismantling anti-N. Korea loudspeakers along border
2. Seoul begins removing loudspeakers along border with North Korea
3. South Korea warns of China’s assertiveness amid call for dialogue
4. U.S. unveils program requiring temporary business visa applicants to post bond of up to US$15,000
5. North Korean IT worker infiltrations exploded 220% over the past 12 months, with GenAI weaponized at every stage of the hiring process
6. No summit with Japan scheduled yet ahead of talks with Trump: presidential office
7. FM Cho says U.S. troops in S. Korea to remain as is amid drawdown reports
8. S. Korea to resume inter-Korean projects when contact with N. Korea reestablished: unification minister
9. Poland doubles down on South Korean tanks with $6.5 billion deal
10. Police investigating North Korean defector for aiding Pyongyang’s secret police
11. China and Russia mark WWII anniversary in Pyongyang, signaling closer ties
12. The U.S.-China Dilemma Over USFK Realignment
13. U.S. tariff talks wake-up call for S. Korea to double down on innovation: finance minister
14. Chinese factories fuel North Korea’s underground electronics market
15. Trump-Lee summit 2025: modernizing the South Korea-U.S. alliance
