9/18/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary
09.18.2026 at 04:41pm
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National Security News:
1. Why Al-Qaeda Is Bringing Hamza bin Laden Back
2. Why Eurasia, Not the Indo-Pacific, Matters Most in Next Phase of Taiwan Deterrence
3. America’s Attrition Trap: The U.S. Military Needs to Build Up Its Endurance by Nadia Schadlow
4. By Nearly Every Metric, the U.S. Is Losing the Iran War
5. Trump Claims US Army Base in Poland Closer, Site Announcement to Come ‘Very Soon’
6. How to Understand the New Age of War: A Conversation With Lawrence D. Freedman
7. String of daring Russian plots is testing Washington’s restraint
8. The U.S. and China Want AI Guardrails. But Their Ideas Couldn’t Be More Different.
9. The US Military Is on an AI Sprint. Its Accountability Mechanisms Are Still in the Starting Blocks.
10. To Deter China from Invading Taiwan, Trump Must Exploit Beijing’s Pressure Points
11. U.S. Strike on Iranian School May Have Been War Crime, U.N. Report Says
12. Trump’s Pentagon weighs pulling up to 40,000 US troops from Europe in major drawdown plan
13. Army has enough drones for each unit, now it needs to train soldiers to use them
14. U.S. Intelligence Warns of China Theft Over Sale of F-35 Jets to Saudis
15. The American Age Is Over: A period of global dominance has ended in plain sight.
16. Claiming the Kill: Attribution and False-Flagging in Cyber Offense
17. An Army General Talks Fusing Sensors and Shooters on the Eastern Flank
18. China, Not Iran, Is Trump’s Real Foreign-Policy Debacle
19. The Checklist Tax: The First Problem for AI in the US Army
20. Why Trump and Xi Finally Agree on AI
21. ‘You’re Eroding Trust’: What Trump Shifting Tens of Millions in Military Aid Means for U.S. Alliances
22. Debris Found in Yemen Suggests Saudi Arabia Fired Its First Chinese Missile
23. Iran war is draining US military resources from Pacific and Asia
Korean News:
1. Conditions not a calendar: the reality of ROK/U.S. OPCON transition
2. Rejecting Trump, South Korean Leader Says He Will Not Send Troops to Iran
3. A new Trump-Kim summit would be a nightmare for everyone but Pyongyang
4. N Korea cites buildup for nuclear stance
5. North Korea Sends Women to Russian Factories in Line of Ukrainian Fire
6. Area near North Korean nuclear site has experienced nearly 1,400 quakes
7. The Long Arm of China and North Korea’s Repression
8. South Korea Launches K-Silk Road Initiative at First Central Asia Summit
9. Nuri rocket launch heralds South Korea’s first microsatellite constallation — and shows it might have the technology to launch its own Starlink
10. South Korea’s Lee rules out military role in Middle East conflict
11. U.S. ambassador says S. Korea-U.S. alliance ‘linchpin’ of peace on Korean Peninsula
12. N.K. leader’s sister slams U.S.-led maritime drill, vows nuclear build-up
13. South Korea will continue to help ‘create an opening’ for Trump-Kim summit: Lee
14. Defector urges outside information for North Korea
15. South Korea’s unification education is asking the wrong question about peace
