Access National Security News HERE. Access Korean News HERE. National Security News: 1. Aborted Pakistan Trip Leaves Trump With Tough Choices on Iran Talks 2. Taiwan Fears It’ll Be ‘On the Menu’ at Xi’s Summit With Trump 3. China has ‘deliberate, industrial-scale campaigns’ to steal US AI models, White House says 4. From the Telegraph to the Smartphone: How Information Technology Unified a Nation … Read more
“Covert Crypto: a Double-edged Sword for Special Operations,” published by Catherine Woods at the Irregular Warfare Initiative, examines how Special Operations Forces can leverage cryptocurrency at the operational and tactical level across three mission sets: covert payments, nonstandard acquisitions, and deception operations. Woods challenges the widespread belief that crypto offers true anonymity, arguing instead that blockchain technology makes most transactions … Read more
Access SOF News HERE. Weekly SOF Brief – April 27, 2026 April 27, 2026 SOF News Update 0 Curated news, analysis, and commentary on special operations, intelligence, irregular warfare, national defense, and global conflicts. Photo / Image: U.S. Army Soldiers assigned to the U.S. Army Special Warfare Center and School take part in a stress event during the Maritime Assessment Course at Fort … Read more
Abstract The “New Great Game” framework is insufficient for explaining contemporary geopolitical dynamics in Central and Southwest Asia, where power is increasingly shaped by interconnected, multivector relationships rather than zero-sum competition. If researchers and analysts expand this framework, the Iranian conflict provides an opportunity to understand the limitations of Central Asia’s balancing act among Russia, China, the United States, and emerging actors through pragmatic decisions tied … Read more
Fifty days into the US war with Iran, a pattern has emerged that is both familiar and alarming: tactical military success has not produced strategic coherence, and the absence of a credible theory of victory has left the United States reactive, economically exposed, and diplomatically isolated. United States entered the Iran conflict without a defined political end-state. The national security … Read more
Abstract The U.S. war with Iran, launched on February 28, 2026, and now in its eighth week under a Pakistani-brokered ceasefire that President Trump extended on April 21, has imposed costs on Washington that extend far beyond the battlefield. This article argues that the conflict has exposed a condition of American strategic insolvency: a country whose simultaneous commitments in Europe, … Read more
ABSTRACT This article highlights the strategic competition between the United States (U.S.) and China in the Pacific Island Countries (PICs), focusing on law enforcement assistance and capacity-building as a proxy for strategic influence and great power competition. This dynamic warrants a restructuring of civilian police coordination alongside U.S. military priorities to better counter PRC efforts and eliminate glaring inefficiencies in … Read more
Access National Security News HERE. Access Korean News HERE. National Security News: 1. The Guardian view on Germany, Japan and the end of the postwar order: as US alliances crumble, a new world emerges | Editorial 2. China Gen Z snipers nicknamed ‘Sweetheart’, ‘Gun Queen’ challenge gender stereotypes 3. U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner were set to travel to Islamabad on … Read more
Argentina’s current security strategy under President Javier Milei represents not a rupture, but an intensification of prohibitionist logics that have long shaped Latin America’s approach to illicit economies. Framed as “Zero Tolerance,” this model relies on militarized enforcement, expanded punitive frameworks, and deeper international security cooperation. Yet Zero Tolerance strategies within prohibitionist regimes are less effective at dismantling illicit … Read more
Per this Fox News report, United States Southern Command is standing up an autonomous warfare element that turns drones and AI from support tools into the backbone of daily operations against cartel networks. What’s Different This moves beyond the occasional ISR. The model pushes persistent coverage, faster targeting, and tighter links between sensors and shooters across land, sea, air, and … Read more
As reported in a Wall Street Journal article from March 18th titled “A U.S. Citizen Now Runs Mexico’s Top Drug Cartel—and Targeting Him Is Complicated,” the ascent of Juan Carlos Valencia González introduces a legal friction point into U.S. counter-cartel operations. A U.S.-born capo now sits atop the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, forcing intelligence collection and lethal authorities into tighter … Read more
Access National Security News HERE. Access Korean News HERE. National Security News: 1. Analysis: The law sets a 60-day limit on unauthorized wars. Will Trump respect it? 2. Iran’s Leadership Divisions Frustrate Efforts to Make Progress in Talks 3. Ukraine Is Europe’s War Now 4. Europe Prepares for a Longer War in Ukraine, With No Strategy to End It 5. Iran’s Meme War Against Trump … Read more
Since 2025, Puerto Rico has become a front line in the US fight against transnational drug trafficking, but the island’s struggle is more than a security issue. Amid an ongoing fiscal crisis, recurring natural disasters, and prolonged political instability, militarized operations and market disruptions have intensified illicit economic pressures, fueling unprecedented violence. Introduction During the first year of President … Read more
Access National Security News HERE. Access Korean News HERE. National Security News: 1. DOJ arrests soldier who made $400,000 betting on Maduro’s removal 2. U.S. Soldier Charged With Using Classified Information To Profit From Prediction Market Bets 3. An Iranian Ship Tried to Slip Past the Blockade. A U.S. Destroyer Chased It Down. 4. Exclusive | U.S. Seeks to Reset Ties With Reclusive but … Read more
“Prepare the Marine Corps for a Protracted War,” published in the April 2026 edition of the US Naval Institute’s Proceedings by Lieutenant Colonel Brian Kerg, argues that the Marine Corps must plan now for force regeneration and expansion to fight and win a long war against China. Kerg warns that China’s precision-strike capabilities will rapidly degrade III Marine Expeditionary Force … Read more
Access SOF News HERE. Operation Epic Fury Update – April 24, 2026 April 24, 2026 SOF News Middle East 0 https://sof.news/middle-east/epic-fury-24april2026/ Executive Summary The planned ceasefire meeting in Islamabad, Pakistan for Wednesday never happened; Iran declined to show. The U.S. naval blockade on vessels going to and from Iranian ports is still in effect. By Thursday, three ‘sanctioned’ oil tankers had been seized by … Read more
Introduction The contemporary debate on AUKUS reflects a broader analytical flaw in defense discourse where selective historical analogy and technical determinism are used to justify preexisting policy decisions. This essay will examine the arguments made by authors in the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) and the Australian Naval Institute (ANI) to show how technological determinism flattens historical context. They do … Read more
The modern security environment is increasingly defined by the rapid proliferation of unmanned aerial systems. Yet amid this transformation, organizations often fall into a predictable trap: they chase the newest technological countermeasure while overlooking the more fundamental requirement of education and training. The result is a growing inventory of sensors, software platforms, and counter-drone tools that promise protection but frequently … Read more
Abstract Using primary sources, this article identifies the source text of “Mao’s” On Guerrilla Warfare, which most of the existing Anglophone scholarship assumes was lost to history. The details surrounding the creation of this work attest to how the Anglophone literature tends to overrepresent Mao and neglect the contribution of others in the development of the broader canon of Chinese … Read more
Access National Security News HERE. Access Korean News HERE. National Security News: 1. US commander says Iran war success crucial for deterrence in Asia 2. Air War in Iran Gives Way to Crippling Stalemate in Hormuz 3. US aggression risks pushing a cornered Iran towards a global shadow war 4.The Strait of Hormuz is today’s energy chokepoint. China is tomorrow’s. 5. US Officials Voice … Read more