7/30/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary
07.30.2026 at 05:02pm
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National Security News:
1. U.S. Retaliates Against Iran for Tuesday’s Surprise Attack
2. The U.S. Commander With a Two-Week Plan to Escalate Strikes in Iran
3. Iran Gambles on Escalation With Surprise Attack on U.S. Forces
4. A shrinking weapons stockpile is testing the Pentagon’s sweeping new strategy
5. Pentagon Commits Over $120 Billion for Patriot Missiles, Submarines
6. Trump Just Got Handed a New Problem: The Missiles He Spent on Iran Are the Very Ones the Pacific Was Counting On
7. ‘Within three years, Ukraine has built one of the most innovative military-industrial complexes in the world’
8. Elbridge Colby on the Opportunities of the “Donroe Doctrine”
9. From Gibraltar to the Arctic: Why the Arctic cannot wait for the governance of tomorrow
10. THE REAL STAKES OF GREAT POWER COMPETITION: POLITICS OF FRUSTRATION
11. Opinion | Ukrainian TrophyLab Widens the Cracks in Russia’s Military Facade
12. Protecting America’s troops on the digital battlefield: Rep. Jackson
13. 15 reasons to save Voice of America
14. Pentagon removes ex-DNI Clapper’s name from auditorium at DIA headquarters
15. Pentagon says military dialogue with China is strongest in years
16. Exploring PRC Research on Kill Chains and Kill Webs: How Might it Help the PLA?
17. Eurasia Review Interviews: Dr. ‘Lumpy’ Lumbaca On Cognitive Warfare, AI-Enabled Influence Operations, And The Future Of Military Decision-Making
18. Human Judgment at Machine Speed
19. No Place to Hide: Warfare in the Age of Persistent Observation
20. Can Cyber Operations Be Deterred? What Wargames Reveal
21. The Next Phase of China’s Minority Crackdown
Korean News:
1. Information crosses borders, learning changes people: The real work begins after the USB drive arrives.
2. Obstacles to unification can be overcome
3. What Korean separated families teach us about intergenerational trauma
4. Team Spirit for the 21st century: Why South Korea should lead an annual, multinational defense exercise.
5. U.S. academies offer model for South Korean military reform
6. The Paradox of Self-Reliance
7. Seoul Wants Its Military Back. Washington Isn’t Ready To Let Go.
8. New U.S. Ambassador Faces Pushback From South Korea’s Ruling Bloc
9. New U.S. Ambassador Steel says alliance with S. Korea stands as one of strongest in world
10. U.S. military drone flies over inter-Korean border area, prompts civilian evacuation
11. South Korean army to conduct mass review of weapons at border with North Korea
12. BTS, K-Pop Giants, to Boycott the Grammys
13. S. Korea in talks with U.S. military over air base access following white phosphorus leak: sources
