9/30/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary
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National Security News:
1. What Will Hegseth’s “State of the Force” Reprise Reveal?
2. Hegseth to Announce 20% Cut to Senior Officer Ranks
3. Republican Senator Wicker says US security commitments to Taiwan must be upheld
4. MAC warns China weaponizing Taiwan narratives in cognitive warfare
5. Russia’s Plan to Break Ukraine: What Kyiv Needs to Survive
6. Voice of America Cuts Hurt ‘U.S. National Interests,’ Internal Watchdog Says
7. Defying Trump Has Given Carney a Popular Mandate to Transform Canada
8. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth Signs Directive Halting Tenured Civilian Positions at U.S. Military Service Academies
9. The THAAD Delusion
10. Autonomy Will Not Automatically Change How an Army Brigade Fights—Autonomy at Scale Will
11. Drone Warfare on the Front Foot: For a Stronger Defense, Play Offense
12. The Army Needs Unmanned Systems Competence Across the Force—and It Already Has the Mechanism to Create It
13. How President Trump’s memo on domestic terrorism has targeted left-leaning protests
14. Opinion | Why Iran May Be America’s Last Mideast War
15. Will A.I. Make Your Brain Lazy? Here’s What the New Research Actually Shows.
16.Exclusive | How the Pentagon Is Escalating Trump’s Drug War in Latin America
17. U.K. Says It Has ‘Strong Indications’ Iran Is Linked to Foiled Attack on Air Base
18.This Potential MQ-9 Reaper Replacement Is An Inexpensive And Capable Platform
19. The Scramble for the Open Seas: What Happens When Oceans Are Up for Grabs
20. The War Before the War: Joint Force Integration in Strategic Supply Denial
21. The Coming Wave of High-Powered Microwaves
22. Phantom Knights Case Colors: 8th Psychological Operations Group (Airborne) Inactivates After 15 Years of Historic Service
23. The AI Threat We’re Not Talking About
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Korean News:
1. U.N. Command, South Korea say North Korean mines violated armistice
2. Rated Ready is Not Ready: What America’s Korea Exercises Actually Measure
3. Why DMZ land mines are notoriously dangerous and hard to control by both Koreas
4. Rebalancing Without Unraveling: Responsibility, Command, and Posture in the U.S.–ROK Alliance
5. What Ukraine doesn’t understand about 2 Koreas
6. 50% chance of US-North Korea talks around APEC summit: report
7. ‘Self-staged farce’: Kim Yo Jong denies North Korean role in DMZ mine blast
8. North Korea expanding uranium enrichment facility at Yongbyon: Imagery
9. Unification minister cuts short Europe trip on DMZ blast
10. Trump unveils S. Korea’s investment plans for Alaska LNG project, Texas power plant, 8 nuclear reactors
11. Lee says self-reliant national defense is sovereignty itself
12. Republican committee chief urges ‘heightened vigilance’ over S. Korea-China ties: report
13. 2 U.S. lawmakers welcome Trump’s efforts to restart dialogue with N. Korea’s Kim
