8/28/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary
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National Security News:
1. Meaning, Myth, and Force Design in U.S. Special Operations
2. Opinion | The Path to Zero: The Tragic Withdrawal From Afghanistan
3. C.I.A. Chief Delivered Bleak Assessment of Russia’s War in Secretive Moscow Visit
4. Maneuver Isn’t Dead, Armor Isn’t Obsolete: Modern Battlefield Conditions Encourage Positional Warfare, But Don’t Dictate It
5. See How the World Has Changed Since the Start of the Iran War
6. The Whole World Is in Crisis. Get Used to It by Hal Brands
7. Opinion | Would Putin Really Tangle With NATO?
8. Putin sees U.S. as weakened by Iran war, intelligence reports say
9. Trump shifts toward regime change in Iran, but by other means
10. Trump Administration’s Blacklisting of Anthropic Was Illegal, Judge Rules
11. ACTION MEMO FROM THE GULF: Trump Needs a War Czar
12. The dangerous new twist in Trump’s latest defamation threat
13. Stars and Stripes employees sue Pentagon over firings at military newspaper
14. The Potential for Moral Injury in the Caribbean
15. Bradley Fighting Vehicle Lugging Load Of Swarming Ground Drones Is A Sign Of What’s To Come
16. How Marine Rifle Squads Plan To Fight Future Wars Dominated By Drones
17. Japan approves mass production of 3D-printed interceptor drones
18. Army Selects Vendors, Sites for Nuclear Microreactors
19. Water Scarcity in the Colorado River Basin: A National Security Assessment
20. China, Criminal Networks, and Gray Zone Competition
21. Retaliating Without Becoming an Open Belligerent: The UAE’s Calibrated Response to Iran
22. Review: Jack Watling’s State Craft
Korean News:
1. 65 pct of S. Koreans support nuclear armament: poll
2. South Korean lawmaker proposes nuclear-submarine special law
3. Drone warfare in Ukraine: Korean tech for interceptors and trends in heavy bomber drones
4. Suicide drone falls into sea after launch due to minor defect: officials
5. Why Korea’s suicide drone, far pricier than a Shahed, crashed seconds after launch
6. Army launches drone, robot tactical demonstration unit
7. Court orders Pyongyang to pay N. Korean defector damages for torture
8. Seoul court holds North Korea liable for torture, sexual abuse of defector
9. Border tension grows as North Korean soldiers cross MDL, South shoots warning shots
10. Gov’t finalizes Muan County area as site for Gwangju Air Base relocation
11. US needs more mature approach to allies
12. [Richard Haass] Trump’s Korean catastrophe
13. North Korea probes army corruption after soldiers found starving on construction sites
14. North Korean teens flock to ‘dance tutoring’ inspired by slick pop choreography
15. [Wang Son-taek] Check points for Kim-Trump summit
16. Top security adviser stresses need for ‘substantive progress’ on NK nuclear issue
17. Seoul to work with U.S. to make N.K.-U.S. dialogue lead to progress on nuclear issue: Wi
18. North Korea caught erasing former leader’s Russian heritage
19. US, ROK and Japan to hold military exercises aimed at countering North Korea
