Access National Security News HERE. Access Korean News HERE. National Security News: 1. Trump Signs Iran Deal, Says He Wants to Avoid ‘Economic Catastrophe’ 2. Douglas Murray: How Trump Fell Into the Iranian Trap 3. Niall Ferguson: It’s Too Soon to Call This a U.S. Surrender 4. An Annotated Analysis of Trump’s Iran Deal 5. America’s Power Under Strain: Iran War Reveals U.S. Limits, Allies … Read more
Last week, the war in Ukraine officially surpassed the first World War in duration. 1,569 days. Constant Méheut, writing with The New York Times, plays with the parallel between the two wars. The Two Wars World War I ended because the German home front buckled before the army did, the Kaiser fled, and an armistice arrived as the cessation of … Read more
Ukrainian drones hit Moscow earlier today, closing the capital’s airports, ring road, and damaging an oil refinery in the city’s outskirts. Paul Sonne and Nataliya Vasilyeva of the New York Times report that the attack appears to be the largest since the war began over four years ago. The War Comes to Russia There are increasing signs that Ukrainian drone … Read more
Read the full story here: Army Creates New Air and Missile Defense MOS – AUSA The Association of the United States Army, speaking with Army spokesman Maj. Travis Shaw, reports that the Army will combine the Military Occupational Specialties (MOS) for Soldiers who operate and maintain the Patriot and Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile systems. The new MOS … Read more
Abstract This article examines the evolution of Lebanese Hezbollah’s financial activities in Latin America, with particular focus on an elaborate sanctions-evasion scheme involving the exchange of Iranian oil for Venezuelan gold. Drawing on recent United States Department of the Treasury designations and press reporting, it argues that this financial mechanism is not a novel development but rather part of a … Read more
Abstract This article examines how maritime swarm tactics enable weak actors to transform global energy chokepoints into strategic battlefields. By leveraging numbers, speed, and dispersion, asymmetric forces—most notably the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy (IRGCN)—can overwhelm conventional naval defenses and target vulnerable commercial tankers. These low-cost “mosquito fleets” bypass traditional naval engagements to strike at the global economy’s logistics center … Read more
Access National Security News HERE. Access Korean News HERE. National Security News: 1. Department of War Restores U.S. Pacific Command Designation 2. Al Arabiya English obtains 14-point draft of US-Iran Memorandum of Understanding 3. Thwarted Plot to Attack White House Fight Involved Drones and Snipers, Officials Say 4. Iran Is Returning to Nuclear Talks No Longer Afraid of America 5. … Read more
WASHINGTON – A Senate committee that oversees the Pentagon has adopted a measure from Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly intended to require “ultimate human responsibility” in the use of force. The U.S. and other nations are increasingly deploying autonomous weapons systems, and the use of artificial intelligence has escalated rapidly in the U.S. war with Iran and the Russia-Ukraine war. “Congress … Read more
The character of the Russian war against Ukraine has evolved dramatically over time. A war defined by maneuver warfare in 2022 during the initial Russian invasion and the Ukrainian counteroffensives in Kharkiv and Kherson has devolved into positional warfare with the majority of the killing being done by drones. Drones have become a dominant feature of the war, used across … Read more
Editor’s Note: this article is being republished with the permission of the Irregular Warfare Initiative as part of a republishing arrangement between IWI and SWJ. The original article was published on 28 May 2026 and is available here. “The country must turn to, and not away from, the American way of irregular war.” —Lieutenant General Charles T. Cleveland, The American Way of … Read more
Access National Security News HERE. Access Korean News HERE. National Security News: 1. U.S., Iran reach a deal to end fighting, both sides say 2. WSJ Politics Special Edition: Trump’s Iran Deal Will Hinge on These Things 3. Has the Iran War Been Worth It? 4. Trump sought to break Iran’s regime. He settled for reopening Hormuz. 5. Trump’s Iran deal ends war but leaves … Read more
Access SOF News HERE. SOF Weekly Brief – June 15, 2026 June 15, 2026 John Friberg News 0 Curated news, analysis, and commentary on special operations, intelligence, irregular warfare, national defense, and global conflicts. Photo / Image: U.S. service members assigned to Naval Special Warfare Command conduct Special Purpose Insertion/Extraction training from a CH-47 Chinook helicopter assigned to the 25th Combat Aviation Brigade … Read more
The New Middle East: Power, Perception, and Order After the Iran War The 2026 war did not settle the questions it was meant to resolve. It unsettled the assumptions on which the regional order had rested. The argument of this analysis is straightforward: the Middle East has already changed shape, even as the wider global order has yet to catch … Read more
Abstract COL Ned Marsh’s critique of the Army Special Forces model raises a challenge that extends well beyond force design: successful organizations and leaders alike can adapt continuously while becoming increasingly optimized for conditions that are themselves changing. This article examines how assumptions forged through success become embedded in organizational culture and professional identity, making them progressively harder to examine … Read more
At the Shangri-La Dialogue (SLD) from May 29 to May 31, 2026, technology issues were on everyone’s lips. Contrary to what some had suggested, defense officials in attendance were not merely paying lip service. Conversations on the vulnerability of our critical underwater infrastructure began at the 2025 edition of SLD. Just a year later, countries launched an initiative to establish … Read more
In 2018, a rumor spread rapidly through India via WhatsApp warning that child kidnappers were operating in rural communities. The messages were vague but urgent. They were often accompanied by unrelated videos framed as evidence. Authorities were ultimately unable to identify a single originator or coordinated source behind their spread. As fear escalated, villagers began stopping strangers, forming patrols and in several cases, carrying … Read more
Access National Security News HERE. Access Korean News HERE. National Security News: 1. Deadlocked Wars: How Major Powers Misread the Regions They Attacked 2. Germany and Japan Are Rearming Again, 80 Years After World War II 3. The Iranian Enforcer Driving Tehran’s Hard Bargaining With the U.S. 4. The Manufactured Myth of the Smith-Mundt “Firewall” 5. Amazon CEO’s Talks With U.S. Officials Triggered Crackdown on … Read more
Access National Security News HERE. Access Korean News HERE. National Security News: 1. From protest to silence: China’s long game in Zambia 2. After insider bets on Venezuela and other military action, prediction markets face scrutiny 3. Line Crossed? Fully Autonomous Drones Kill Russian Soldiers 4. China Arrests American Scholar-Journalist, Adding to Friction With U.S. 5. Anthropic Says It’s Taking Claude Fable 5 Offline to … Read more
A Ukrainian drone manufacturer has confirmed that fully autonomous AI drones killed Russian soldiers in a battlefield test two years ago, according to a report in NewScientist by Matthew Sparkes. In the mission, ten quadcopters were sent toward the front line near Bakhmut, with instructions to destroy everything they encountered. Per the reporting, two Russian soldiers were killed. No human … Read more
Access National Security News HERE. Access Korean News HERE. National Security News: 1. Ukraine has taught the world how to kill again 2. SASC’s $1.14T defense policy bill creates combatant command for drones 3. Reforge the Beret: Special Forces and the Education Cognitive Warfare Demands 4. 2-front war with Russia and China would require new US basing strategy, report says 5. Pentagon announces ‘Cyber Mastery … Read more