8/3/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary
08.03.2026 at 08:31pm
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National Security News:
1. Assessing Special Operations Forces (SOF) 2040 (Part 4): Measuring What Matters – Adaptive Performance and the Next Frontier in SOF Qualification
2. Gulf States Pressed Trump to Hold Off on Iran Strikes and Pursue Talks
3. As Trump balks again at escalating war, Iran smells ‘blood in the water’ and looks to exploit its newfound strategic advantage, experts say
4. Trump is proving that the way to better our military is to secure our supply chains
5. Trump Pivots Back to Diplomacy as Iran Victory Eludes Him
6. Opinion | Trump’s Latest Iran ‘DEAL’
7. US Justice Department Subpoenas New York Times Freelancer Over North Korea Story, Paper Says
8. Economic Warfare: A Foundation for Twenty-First-Century Strategic Practice
9. The War That Could Swallow the World
10. China’s military goal is to stand neck and neck with the US: ex-PLA colonel Zhou Bo
11. China’s birth crisis threatens Xi’s superpower dream’
12. The numbers game: why the US is losing ground to China in the first island chain
13. The First Great Compound War: Why America Is Fighting Iran With an Obsolete Theory of Victory
14. Reorganization Is Not Transformation: Why Information Must Become the Army’s Seventh Warfighting Function
15. The U.S. Isn’t Making Enough Weapons
16. Top US admiral warns against coercion, says no nation will dominate Indo-Pacific
17. Trump is winning every battle in Iran—and risking the war that matters
Korean News:
1. Respect for North Korean sovereignty? 26 million Koreans in the north need information, not abandonment.
2. DOJ subpoenas journalist over North Korea SEAL mission report
3. FM Cho highlights new U.S. ambassador’s role in resolving bilateral issues
4. U.S. drone mix-up caused by communication error at working level: official
5. South Korea ditches ‘denuclearization-first’ strategy. What will Pyongyang do next?
6. Defense ministry launches new counterintelligence unit in overhaul
7. ROK drone command cut training, budget despite North Korea’s advances: lawmaker
8. South Korea expands Cheongung-II missile shield against North Korean threats
9. Navy conducts 1st undersea mine-sweeping trial using ‘AI officer,’ unmanned vessels
10. S. Korea overhauls decades-old demining policy to reclaim borderlands
11. Expectations for new US envoy with Korean roots
12. Editorial: Cheong Wa Dae Security Director Dismisses U.S. Drone Near-Shootdown as Minor
