10/16/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary
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National Security News:
1. Do Not Jettison Low Intensity Conflict Unless You Replace It with Irregular Warfare
2. The Axis of Upheaval Goes to War: How Battlefield Cooperation Is Binding Together America’s Adversaries
3. Pentagon seeks expertise to develop brain injury assessment standards
4. Changing the Narrative: What Does a Whole-of-Society Approach to Defense Entail?
5. AFSA: State Department’s Lateral Entry Recruitment Program Exposes the Absurdity and Waste of USAID Firings
6. Reflections on Ukraine (2026 and 2025)
7. The Nuclear Deal That Could Save NATO: How Europe Can Take More Responsibility—Without Starting an Arms Race
8. PERSPECTIVE: Why Narrative Strategy Matters in Building Community Trust and National Resilience
9. The Defector: A Russian Officer Turned Against His Country and Helped Ukraine Kill Hundreds
10. Under the New Logic of Drone Warfare, Is Unmanned No Longer a Key Capability?
11. Digital Hawala: Hezbollah’s Evolving Financial Infrastructure in the Tri-Border Area
12. Ross Douthat: How to Survive the Robot Apocalypse
13. China This Week: Governance Signals That Matter
14. Opinion | The Best Defense Against AI Is AI
15. China and the United States Reach an Eight Point Consensus
16. SIG SAUER launches C-UAS electro-optic system at AUSA 2026
17. U.S. special ops test drone laser for longer mortar shots
18. Why Data Centers Have Become Military Targets
19. A Modern Trace Italienne: Rethinking Rear-Area Defense Against Drones
20. Golden Dome Is Technologically and Financially Infeasible
Korean News:
1. Seoul should listen carefully to Gen. Brunson
2. The Axis of Upheaval Goes to War: How Battlefield Cooperation Is Binding Together America’s Adversaries
3. Report to Congress on North Korea’s Nuclear Weapons and Missile Programs
4. “Indescribable Anxiety” (north-South relations)
5. What do North Korea’s sub missile tests really prove?
6. South Korea’s Lee calls for constitutional revision to reflect spirit of democratization
7. Former Trump adviser Michael Flynn receives Korean name
8. South Korea election probe finds false voter counts in 30 districts
9. Main opposition slams gov’t over S. Korea-U.S. gap on OPCON transfer
10. Lee’s approval rating rises after dipping to lowest level: poll
11. S. Korea, U.S. hold first 2+2 meeting of finance, monetary policymakers
12. Defense chief vows to transform Marines into force capable of modern maneuver warfare
13.Bipartisan U.S. Senate bill seeks to reaffirm ‘ironclad’ nuclear deterrence commitment to S. Korea
14. Wartime command transfer needs more than confidence
15. Editorial: Stumbling at Landmines, How to Confront Nuclear Threats?
