8/26/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary
08.26.2025 at 10:04pm
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National Security News Content:
1. Trump, Hegseth float renaming Defense Department to Department of War
2. Army training sites don’t simulate future battlefields: Analysis
3. A Peace Deal for Ukraine Could Test German Reluctance to Deploy Troops
4. The History of U.S.-Iranian Irregular Warfare
5. Trump wants a ‘Department of War.’ Here’s why it’s not called that anymore.
6. Agile Mindset – A Combat-Ready Framework for the Army Transformation Initiative
7. Panama Canal Plans Sale of New Ports to Bring in Competition Ahead of BlackRock Deal
8. Sanctions Can Help Trump Beat Russia By Mike Pence
9. Egypt Is Training Palestinian Forces to Take Over Postwar Gaza
10. U.S. and Japan at Odds Over Terms of $550 Billion Investment
11. U.S. Detachment Risks Dominance in Defense Sector
12. How Ukraine Uses Net-Firing Drones To Snag Russian UAVs
13. Are Russian cargo ships operating drones in Europe?
14. Norway to help Germany pay for Patriot air-defense systems for Ukraine
15. After Chinese ships ram each other, concern over dangerous encounters in South China Sea
16. What Western security guarantees for Ukraine might look like
17. Finland set to launch large-scale military drills jointly with US, Europe
18. Why US Special Forces Can’t Live Without the MH-6 “Little Bird” Helicopter
19. Putin’s Play for Time
20. The New Hamas Insurgency
21. Unconventional Warfare: Solving Complex Political-Military Problems and Creating Dilemmas for Adversaries
Korean News Content:
1. Lee–Trump summit: cordiality, caution and the coming hard choices
2. Trump, South Korea’s Lee see common interests in trade, defense
3. South Korea’s Leader and Trump Find Common Ground: Kim Jong-un
4. South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Increases U.S. Investment to $26 Billion
5. Korean Air says it will buy 103 Boeing aircraft
6. South Korea bets big on reviving troubled US shipbuilding to woo Trump
7. South Korea’s Leader and Trump Find Common Ground: Kim Jong-un
8. U.S. showcases dual F-35 variants in rare exercise as North tests new missiles
9. Americans referred for criminal changes for sending Bibles, rice to North Korea
10. Russia trains North Korean experts in mineral exploration, including for uranium
11. Trump says he wants to meet Kim Jong Un ‘this year’ at talks with Lee Jae-myung
12. Kim Jong-un weeps for North Korea’s Ukraine war dead in display of calculated grief
13. Lee pledges to support U.S. push to revitalize shipbuilding during visit to Philly Shipyard
14. Trump says S. Korea, U.S. agree to honor their trade deal though there was ‘problem’
15. Lee-Trump summit sets ‘positive’ tone for alliance, but key security, trade issues remain
16. Pentagon chief says Indo-Pacific allies ‘stepping up’ to 5 pct of GDP defense spending goal
17. S. Korea, U.S., Japan co-host forum in Tokyo to counter N. Korean IT worker threats
18. The Missed Opportunity of the Japan-South Korea Summit
19. The ROK-U.S. Summit 2025: No harm done, but missed opportunity
