6/26/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary
06.26.2026 at 04:22pm
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National Security News:
1. The Pentagonian Test: Expanding Clausewitz’s Theory (Frank Hoffman via Mick Ryan)
2. Ukraine’s Growing Drone Armada Is Overwhelming Russia’s Air Defenses
3. How Iran Devastated an American Naval Base—and Caused a U.S. Recalculation
4. AI-Powered War Is Coming. This Fight Over a Data Center Just Made That Case
5. China This Week: Strategic Moves and Messaging
6. The Tartan Army Takes America
7. Sunset on the Greasy Grass: The 5 Modern Lessons of Little Bighorn
8. Moscow gets a taste of Vladimir Putin’s war
9. A Spy’s Guide to Running AI: Three Former Intelligence Officers on What Intelligence Tradecraft Teaches Us About Generative AI
10. Iran Attacks Cargo Ship, Testing Trump’s Deal to Reopen Strait
11. Silent Professionals Set the Conditions for Red Flag Success
12. The Philippines Emerges as Asia’s Renewable Energy Story
13. AI as a Higher Headquarters
14. Beyond Blue Water: Gray Zone Lessons from Small Island Nations
15. When the Machine Acts First: Closing the Authority Gap on the Autonomous Battlefield
16. The Afghanistan Reckoning: Forever Wars and the Costs of Collective Forgetting
17. Who Is Winning Africa’s Drone Wars? Ukraine Isn’t the Only Battlefield Shaping Autonomous Warfare
18. The 2026 War on the Rocks Summer Fiction Reading List
Korean News:
1. South Korea to Train All Active-Duty Soldiers to Operate Drones
2. The High School Pipeline to South Korea’s Chip-Making Fortunes
3. South Korea to train 500,000 ‘drone warriors’ in new military strategy
4. Seoul plans complete overhaul of drone operations to combat North Korean threats
5. Lee calls for U.S.-N. Korea, inter-Korean dialogue for peace on Korean Peninsula
6. Unification minister calls for moving away from ‘denuclearization first’ policy for N. Korea
7. South Korean activist proposes satellite link for North Korea
8. South Korean coalition calls for withdrawal of two-state policy
9. US lawmakers aim to renew bill supporting defectors, aid to North Korea
10. Ex-nuclear envoy says potential Kim-Trump summit ‘most important’ to resolve N. Korean nuclear issue
11. N. Korea talks not yet ripe, yet future engagement possible: ex-Trump adviser
12. South Koreans reading North Korean newspaper online is on the rise: Seoul
13. Uncomfortable lessons of Iran war (for South Korea)
14. N. Korean defectors revisit heavily-fortified border for fleeting look at home
15. Korean drone startups test wares in the Great White North to avoid red tape at home
16. Danish Director, Screenwriter Craft ‘Hana Korea’ Defector Story
17. Kim Jong Un inspects new weapons systems that threaten Seoul
18. South Korea launches $150 billion U.S. shipbuilding investment push
19. North Korea tests ability to strike ROK power stations with tactical nukes: KCNA
