10/8/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary
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National Security News:
1. The Curriculum Wars: How the Naval War College Became the Bradley Fighting Vehicle
2. The Case for Economic Espionage: America Should Spy On Foreign Companies to Help Its Own
3. UPS Worker Missed Email, Letting China Get F-35 Parts
4. Why the Iran War Has Been So Poorly Fought
5. As allies’ capabilities grow, they need to work with US on nuclear signalling
6. Key Principles of the Democratic World in Response to Authoritarian Challenges
7. Pentagon launches pilot program that will use AI to manage sensitive information
8. Rogue Pilots Have Become One of the Biggest Threats to Airline Safety
9. Dispersion Will Not Save You: Survivability in the Age of Middle-Strike Drones
10. What happens when the State Department loses its institutional memory?
11. Big Tech Is Destroying Democracy. Here’s How to Fight Back.
12. U.S. special operations command expands Greenland training under Operation Apex Indigo
13. Anti-Intellectualism: Professional Military Writing
14. Rubio Urges Europe to Awaken From ‘Slumber’ and Uphold Western Dominance
15. Rubio warns Europe faces ‘inflection point’
16. Achieving Breakthrough: Maneuver Warfare in the Face of Robotic Mass
17. The Nascent Lunar Economy and Premature Securitization
18. Unmanned warfare has now expanded to the high seas. Is the U.S. ready?
19. Recent Taiwan simulation highlights US cyberdefense gaps against China, experts warn
20. Poland deploys South Korean weapons near NATO’s eastern flank
21. Pentagon memo outlines plan to operationalize new ‘FORTRESS America’ program office
22. ‘The Twilight Zone’ Was a Warning America Ignored
23. TikTok Is Taking Us Back to the Dark Ages
Korean News:
1. Editorial: Korea-U.S. Ties So Strained It’s Hard to Tell Where and How Badly
2. Land Mines in the Korean DMZ Deliver Warning Against Defections
3. As allies’ capabilities grow, they need to work with US on nuclear signalling
4. Seoul’s plan to send medical aid to North Korea is a ‘provocation’: Kim Yo Jong
5. US nonprofit cleared to send medical equipment for North Korean children
6. Key Principles of the Democratic World in Response to Authoritarian Challenges
7. Poland deploys South Korean weapons near NATO’s eastern flank
8. S. Korea test-launches 1st hypersonic glide vehicle, attended by Lee
9. S. Korean ministers differ over whether DMZ blast was N. Korean provocation
10. S. Korea to recall envoy to Ukraine amid dispute over disclosure of N.K. POWs
11. What Seoul and Kyiv Should Learn from the North Korean POW Dispute
12. S. Korea says no confirmed fuel exports to Russia, vows strict enforcement of export controls
13. Chinese-speaking hacker possibly linked to AI-driven attacks on S. Korean banks: report
14. K-defense expands global footprint amid shifting security order
15. Lee orders S. Korea not apply for CPTPP membership this year
16. The peace talks that are not going to happen
17. A stronger alliance requires reciprocity
