5/15/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary
05.15.2026 at 05:30pm
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National Security News:
1. ‘New positioning’ in Sino-US ties: What does ‘constructive strategic stability’ really mean?
2. Senior Leaders Update Congress on Special Ops Community
3. US special operations leaders frustrated by inability to modify their own equipment
4. The case for a $24 Billion Special Operations budget
5. Tightly Choreographed Visit Masks Big Differences Between U.S. and China
6. About That Taiwan ‘Thucydides Trap’
7. Beijing’s ‘Industrial Policy of Everything’ Leaves Rest of the World in the Dust
8. China This Week: Strategic Moves and Messaging
9. ‘No idea it was coming’: Pentagon officials stunned by Hegseth decision on troops in Poland
10. Trump’s Troop Drawdown in Germany Is a Warning Shot
11. Part 3: The U.S. Munitions Problem
12. Part 4: The U.S. Munitions Problem
13. L3Harris turns tactical radios into counter-drone sensors
14. The Cross-Domain Contact Layer: Army Advances Multi-Domain Command-Pacific Following Successful Operational Experiment
15. Unmanned Systems and Army Special Forces
16. Claude Mythos Preview and the Erosion of Cyber Defense
17. For a Capability-based Perspective on Economic Security
18. Ukrainian Veterans Bring Lessons of War to Arizona
19. Exploiting Fragmentation: An Economy of Force SOF Strategy Against Iran’s Proxy Network
20. Restrain and Hedge: A New U.S. Nuclear Strategy for a Two-Peer World
21. More than a Buzzword: Redefining Lethality for Modern War
22. Can Corporate America Protect Democracy?
23. How Europe Found Its Nerve
24. Pentagon reaches agreements with defense firms on containerized missiles
25. BEAN-COUNTING WON’T DO: MAKING SENSE OF MODERN MILITARY COMPETITION
26. MDMP Shows Why Strikes and Deals Will Never Be Enough for Iran
Korean News:
1. Five Questions for a General: General Xavier Brunson
2. Joint Statement for the 28th Korea-U.S. Integrated Defense Dialogue
3. South Korea’s 500,000 Drone Warriors Will Be a Hollow Force
4. Constitution of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (2026)
5. Why stability must come before denuclearisation on the Korean peninsula
6. South Korea to kick off ‘Taegeuk’ exercise aimed at mitigating North’s threats
7. South Korea-U.S. Dilemma Over North Korea’s Limited Nuclear Attack
8. Ministry of Unification Notes U.S.-China Korean Peninsula Talks
9. Trump says he discussed N. Korea with Xi during summit in Beijing
10. Long-speculated Trump-Kim meeting fails to materialize during Beijing visit
11. Hope for Taiwan in two Koreas
12. ‘Like whale bones’: South Korea’s war memorial sparks conflict over symbolism
13. NZ Soldiers Join Major Korean Military Exercise in Strengthened Indo-Pacific Partnership
14. US is insufficiently prepared for North Korea to use a tactical nuke
15. S. Korea, U.S. agree to establish joint supply chain for drone, counter-drone systems
16. Two institutions emerge as backbone of South Korea’s defense exports
17. Why Koreans still read Dostoevsky
