9/1/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary
09.01.2026 at 06:16pm
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National Security News:
1. Exclusive | Army Secretary Resigns After Months of Friction With Hegseth
2. SAS chief: Army witch hunts put Britain at risk
3. Perceptions of Weakness Provoke: From Afghanistan to Ukraine to Russia’s ‘Shadow War’ Against Europe and Implications for the War Against Iran
4. The Educated Operator: Rethinking Lethality in Special Operations
5. 82nd Airborne soldiers have Middle East deployment extended out to a year
6. The Ukraine Drones That Are Carrying a Bigger Punch, Deeper Into Russia
7. Mine Warfare With Iran Hampers U.S. Efforts to Win Control of Hormuz
8. Department of War Launches OpenAI’s ChatGPT Mil on GenAI.mil
9. Department of War Launches Starshield AI’s Grok for Government on GenAI.mil
10. The US military gets its own ChatGPT today
11. Pentagon plays down report of Hegseth regularly overruling military advice
12. Putin’s bombs destroy millions of school books before new term
13. China and the U.S. Offer Competing Showcases of Global Power
14. The Political Constraint on America’s Data-Center Power Buildout
15. Trump Mocks Data-Center Opponents as Wanting to Stay ‘Backwards and Poor’
16. The Faceless War: How Artificial Intelligence Rewrote the Map of Power
17. Victory’s Shadow: The Strategic Imperative of SOF Sustainment in Irregular Warfare
18. We can buy more weapons. We can’t buy more time.
19. U.S. Warship Is Close to Thai R&R Spot After Long Iran Deployment
20. How to Break an Army
21. Madmen and Realists: US foreign policy under Trump and beyond
22. The Real Risk of a Trade War With Canada: America Needs Its Neighbors to Counter China
Korean News:
1. The North Korean obsession Washington fails to see – From wooden keyboards to nuclear blackmail
2. White House asked DPAA what it could do should Trump enter into deal with Kim: DPAA director
3. Trump-Kim summit possible ‘at any time,’ Seoul spy agency says
4. Report warns N. Korea institutionalizing nuclear, conventional warfare
5. North Korea says no change in hard-line policy toward United States
6. Korea-U.S. drills shrink while trilateral exercise stays on course
7. Defense ministry seeks 8.2 pct budget increase for 2027 amid OPCON transition, forces reform push
8. Four South Korean Defense Firms Enter Global Top 100
9. S. Korea, Japan hold economic security dialogue to discuss nurturing advanced tech
10. South Korea revives push to join CPTPP’
11. North Korean Job Fraud Expands Beyond IT Into Healthcare and Sales
12. S. Korea, U.S. coordinating FM Cho’s U.S. visit for talks with Rubio: officials
13. N. Korea downgrades diplomatic mission to London in protest of British sanctions over children’s camp
14. Trump, alliances and the legacy of 9/11
15. The Reason Japan Cannot Commit to Dialogue with North Korea
