7/23/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary
07.23.2026 at 06:44pm
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National Security News:
1. Iran, China, Canada? A Defense of Trump’s Grand Strategy (Bridge Colby interview)
2. Colby slap down strengthens case for “Middle Power Strategy”, but it will only be as strong as the sum of its parts
3. Nickel and DIMEd: Trading DIME’s “Participation Awards” for Mutually Reinforcing Capabilities
4. The Strategic Messages of Operation Epic Fury
5. Ukraine’s winning strategy against Russia: Attrition
6. Our Generals Are Failing Us by Gary Anderson
7. Dr. Bruce Hoffman on 50 years of Terrorism Studies
8. The Power Trap: Why AI’s Energy Demands Risk Undermining American Operations in the Indo-Pacific
9. Gas from Above: How UAVs Are Bringing Chemical Warfare Back to the Battlefield in Ukraine
10. U.S. Surges Forces Toward Middle East, Giving Trump Options to Expand Iran War
11. Military briefing: can the US reopen the Strait of Hormuz by force?
12. What is Beijing thinking? Why Washington is struggling to understand its rival
13. What do the PLA’s ‘Steel Rain’ shells say about its war plans for Taiwan?
14. PLA conducts live-fire drills in Taiwan Strait after Beijing calls Lai speech ‘reckless’
15. The American People Need the Truth About the Iran War
16. America Needs an Off-Ramp Between Doing Nothing and Shutting AI Down
17. China’s Moment of Weakness: Economic Decay and America’s Strategic Opening
18. The Small Suffer What They Must? Band Together or Struggle Alone in a Disordered World
19. Project Convergence to stress-test next-gen comms gear in sweltering Mojave Desert
20. How Australia resisted PRC economic coercion: lessons for others
21. American Public Sours to Iran War [Much] Faster Than Vietnam Did | Economist/YouGov Poll
22. They Answered the Call to Serve. Now They’re Answering the Call to Heal.
Korean News:
1. The holistic imperative in northeast Asia – Trilateral cooperation against China, Russia, Iran and North Korea: the CRInK Axis.
2. Taiwan’s hidden Korean shield
3. China Has Quietly Accepted a Nuclear North Korea
4. South Korea shifting to ‘peace first’ North Korea policy, retains denuclearisation goal
5. S. Korea unification minister says policy on N. Korea has shifted to peace-first approach
6. Russia vows support for North Korea’s nuclear, military buildup
7. Seoul’s foreign minister calls for support for peace on Korean Peninsula at Asean Plus Three talks
8. U.S. House passes defense bill with stronger language on maintaining troops in Korea
9. Seoul warns North Korean landmines may have washed across border
10. U.S. House Appropriations subcommittee officials visited S. Korean shipyards in July: sources
11. [Exclusive] Seoul’s lacking high-altitude missile defense a hurdle in OPCON transfer
12. Enhancing resilience and crisis management: the case of the Korean peninsula
13. Court fines defector $6,700 for helping send money back to North Koreans
14. Beyond the photo ops: What lies behind North Korea and China’s diplomatic surge
15. Korea bets $108 mil. on AI to fuel next wave of K-culture
16. North Korea’s IT worker scheme funds Russia’s war effort
17. Number of incarcerated N. Korean defectors rises to 172 in 2025: report
