7/13/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary
07.14.2026 at 01:00pm
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National Security News:
1. Assessing Special Operations Forces (SOF) 2040 (Part 1): The Operator Is the Platform
2. Maneuvering to Obsolescence: The Death Ride of the Armor Branch
3. Citizen Sensors: Crowd-Sourcing sUAS Intelligence Using Smartphone Apps – A New Tool for Special Operations
4. Inside Lindsey Graham’s Final Mission: Saving Ukraine
5. How Ukraine Is Taking Out Russia’s Refineries
6. Frequent Oil Draws From U.S. Strategic Reserve Push Old System to Breaking Point
7. Storm clouds gather over America’s financial supremacy
8. U.S.-Iran airstrikes intensify as Tehran says deal is in ‘crisis phase’
9. A Robot Army Remakes Ground Warfare in Ukraine
10. Japan Is Building a New Intelligence Agency With Help From the West
11. Inside Israel’s Secret Operation to Cultivate Ahmadinejad
12. Inside the terrifying Pete Hegseth purge pushing the US army to breaking point
13. ‘Impressed’ by Drone Strikes: Trump Shifts Attitude Toward Ukraine
14. Ten More For Taiwan: Policy Recommendations to Deter Chinese Communist Party Aggression
15. Reading the Sino-US rivalry: how a quiet literary relationship has shaped views on China
16. An Unlearned Lesson: The Sorry Record of Regime Change Operations in the Middle East
17. America and Iran’s Strange Moment of Opportunity
18. A Propagandistic Voice of America Hands Strategic Victory to U.S. Adversaries
19. The solution to the tanker problem the US military keeps finding in Pacific wargames
Korean News:
1. Myth of the ‘Pershing Rule’ – What history teaches about coalition command and operational control. (Implications for Korea)
2. North Korea tearing down gray markets and replacing with ‘20×10’ facilities
3. Lee says will create ‘future response’ fund using extra tax revenue
4. North Korean defector arrivals ticks up but remains historically low
5. Lee’s approval rating rises for 2nd consecutive week: poll
6. N.K. premier vows efforts to expand ties with Beijing as he returns home from China trip
7. Cargo trucks line up at China-North Korea border in trade surge
8. Chip fabs, AI data centers put S. Korea’s nuclear policy back in focus
9. S. Korea, U.S., Japan bolster cooperation on SMRs amid surging power demand, geopolitical rivalry
10. Gwangju Airport semiconductor hub plan risks new Korea-US friction
11. Canada Submarine Contract: Battle Not Yet Over
12. Democratic Party: From Censorship Opponents to Proponents?
13. South Korea-US Alliance History Etched in Korea Military Academy
