2/27/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary
02.27.2026 at 10:51pm
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National Security News:
1. Second U.S. Aircraft Carrier Approaches Middle East as Nuclear Deal With Iran Remains Elusive
2. Exclusive | Altman Says OpenAI Is Working on Pentagon Deal Amid Anthropic Standoff
3. Exclusive | Government Agencies Raise Alarm About Use of Elon Musk’s Grok Chatbot
4. Paradigm Change in the 2025 National Security Strategy
5. SOF-ening the ICE: The Domestication of Special Warfare
6. The Connector Problem in Resistance Networks: Why Decentralization Fails in Practice
7. China This Week: Strategic Moves and Messaging
8. Is the Army about to shake up its Bradley replacement, XM30? Sources see major signs.
9. Senator puts hold on Trump’s pick for top uniformed cyber chief over lack of experience, ‘vague’ answers to surveillance questions
10. Ukraine is reshaping the armored battlefield. The US Army is trying to keep up.
11. What It Will Take to Change the Regime in Iran
12. China Is Winning by Waiting
13. Trump Officials Seek to Break Editorial ‘Firewall’ at U.S.-Funded News Agencies
14. Regime Change in Cuba Appeals to Trump but Carries Risks
15. iPhone is secure enough for classified NATO secrets right out of the box
16. The Pentagon’s battle with Anthropic is really a war over who controls AI
17. What the Defense Production Act Can and Can’t Do to Anthropic
18. Who’s Setting the Rules for Military AI? Not Congress
19. Ex-Air Force pilot arrested for allegedly training Chinese military pilots without authorization
20. AI Is Being Misunderstood as a Breakthrough in Planning. It’s Not.
21. How the Army Should Run: Reforming Army Processes for Continuous Transformation
22. Army orders $186 million in Switchblade kamikaze drones, tank killers
23. SOCOM on the hunt for ‘acoustic rainbow’ tech for silencing drones
24. Philippines identifies US military plane that hit road barrier, injuring 5 crew members
25. Trump Will End Government Use of Anthropic’s AI Models
Korean News:
1. N. Korea’s Spy Agency a ‘Complex Threat’ Beyond Intelligence Role
2. Inside the Mind of a Veteran South Korean Diplomat
3. External Information Frees North Koreans from Regime Indoctrination
4. Bronze and Concrete: North Korea’s Cultural Footprint in Mozambique and China’s Stadium Diplomacy
5. Unification is the only way to achieve a second Miracle on the Han River.
6. US says it’s open to talks with North Korea, responding to Party Congress
7. South Korea expands espionage law to cover all foreign states
8. What we didn’t see at the Party Congress, from Kim Jong Un’s child to nuke power
9. North Korea holds post-congress military parade with no weapons procession
10. N. Korea’s Kim visits family mausoleum with newly elected party officials after congress
11. South Korea, US Halve Freedom Shield Exercises
12. S. Korea conditionally approves Google’s overseas transfer of high-precision map data
13. Editorial: Scaling Back Joint Drills While Pushing OPCON Transfer
14. Kim’s dual-track strategy
