Access National Security News HERE. Access Korean News HERE. National Security News: 1. NATO Chief Says Europe Is ‘Dreaming’ if It Thinks It Can Defend Itself Without U.S. 2. Risk of a Partial Government Shutdown This Weekend Is Rising. Here’s Why. 3. Army Awards Salesforce $5.6 Billion Software Deal 4. After 80-year bond, Germans find breaking up with the U.S. is hard to do … Read more
Access SOF News HERE. Weekly Drone Report – Jan 27, 2026 January 27, 2026 SOF News Drones 0 News updates on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) including latest drone technology and use in conflicts around the world. Curated articles on the topics below are provided: MQ-1C Drones Added to Budget DoD’s Blue UAS Project Military Police and ISR Russian Shahed Drones Black Sea Drone … Read more
Abstract : This article examines the continued relevance of Che Guevara’s theory of guerrilla warfare through the lens of Myanmar’s ongoing civil war. Focusing on popular support, rural power bases, and ideology, it argues that despite criticisms of Guevara’s originality and mixed historical record, his core principles remain applicable to modern irregular conflicts. Myanmar’s People’s Defense Forces demonstrate how these … Read more
Two U.S. Marine Corps M1 Abrams tanks patrol the streets of Baghdad, Iraq on April 14th, 2003 Facts The Irregular Warfare (IW) Annex to the 2020 National Defense Strategy states, “The Department [of Defense/War] must institutionalize irregular warfare as a core competency for both conventional and special operations forces…” The 2025 Department of Defense Instruction (DoDI) 3000.07 on Irregular Warfare … Read more
Introduction: The Domain JADO Cannot See Joint All-Domain Operations (JADO) represents a necessary evolution in modern warfare. JADO provides frameworks for synchronizing military capabilities across land, sea, air, cyber, space, and electromagnetic spectrum domains to achieve convergent effects that overwhelm adversaries through coordinated action rather than domain-by-domain operations. As Matthew Prescott recently argued in these pages, effective JADO requires “all-terrain … Read more
How the U.S. Crackdown Is Strangling Venezuela’s Dark Fleet | WSJ l January 21, 2026 Over 1400 so-called dark fleet ships from Venezuela, Iran and Russia have been sanctioned or blacklisted by Western countries in recent years, with little impact until the current ramp up in U.S. enforcement. WSJ’s Shelby Holliday breaks down how these tankers evade scrutiny, and the … Read more
“The Center for Irregular Warfare and Armed Groups (CIWAG) is hosting its annual Symposium, and its fifth focused upon Maritime Irregular Challenges, on 23-24 June 2026 in Newport, Rhode Island. 🔱 This event will bring together military, academic, and industry experts to discuss maritime security related to irregular maritime challenges short of war, such as illicit maritime oil transport, sanctions … Read more
Access National Security News HERE. Access Korean News HERE. National Security News: 1. Exclusive | China’s Top General Accused of Giving Nuclear Secrets to U.S. 2. Niall Ferguson: How Trump Won Davos 3. Niall Ferguson: The Arrogance of Trump’s Foreign-Policy Critics 4. Special Operations News – Jan 26, 2026 5. How the old and new US defense strategies differ on traditional priorities 6. Here in One … Read more
In a new USA TODAY report, President Trump told Fox News the United States will soon begin “hitting” drug cartels “by land” and indicated operations could take place in Mexico. He framed the move as an expansion of recent U.S. counternarcotics actions, including maritime interdictions in the Caribbean and the Jan. 3 capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on drug … Read more
Growing Protests Iran is experiencing a growing wave of protests, which started in December 2025 over worsening economic conditions. The result of economic mismanagement by the Islamic Republic’s leadership, the problems include the fall of the local currency – the rial – to a record low and inflation soaring to 40 percent. As the protests gain momentum across Iran’s cities … Read more
Mercenarism Reborn: Drone Operators, Coders, and the Post-Ukraine Market for Force (Modern War Institute) argues that Ukraine has produced a large pool of battle-tested technical specialists who can carry drone, data, and software skills into the global market for force. Raphael Parens and Christopher M. Faulkner describe Ukraine as “the world’s most intense proving ground for modern warfare” and warn … Read more
“Artificial Intelligence and a Reconfiguration of Military Power,” By Elise Annett and Dr. James Giordano, Institute for National Strategic Studies (INSS). In a recent Strategic Insights article published by INSS, Annett and Giordano argue that AI reconfigures how militaries exercise power, authority, and decision-making. The authors describe AI systems across Department of War networks as “epistemic actors” that determine “which … Read more
Access SOF news HERE. Special Operations News – Jan 26, 2026 January 26, 2026 SOF News Update 0 Curated news, analysis, and commentary about special operations, national security, and conflicts around the world. Photo / Image: A North American Aerospace Defense Command F-35 Lightning II fighter aircraft lands at Pituffik Space Force Base, Greenland, Oct. 7, 2025. Greenland as part of the Kingdom … Read more
The Islamic State (IS) in Mozambique mirrors the rise of ISIS in Syria and Iraq, perpetrating atrocities including public beheadings, child recruitment, exploiting women with sexual abuse, massacring Christians, and displacing nearly a million people. For nearly a decade, poverty and neglect in the volatile Cabo Delgado province cultivated fertile ground for extremist ideology, proliferating armed insurgents. Mozambique faces a … Read more
This November, Romanian President Nicușor Dan, elected in a re-run of the presidential elections that were annulled on the basis of Russian malign interference, unveiled Romania’s national security strategy for 2025-2030. For a country known for punching below its weight on the international arena, the document is unusual. It elevates Romania’s regional ambitions to become the biggest power in Southeastern … Read more
In a recent analysis published by The Jamestown Foundation titled “EMP Weapons Expose PRC Military Vulnerability,” Guermantes Lailari, Yu-cheng Chen, and Tin Pak assess how electromagnetic pulse weapons expose critical vulnerabilities in the People’s Liberation Army’s increasingly informatized force structure. The authors argue that EMP capabilities have moved “from theory to reality” and now provide a speed-of-light, non-kinetic “electronics-kill” option … Read more
Access National Security News HERE. Access Korean News HERE. National Security News: 1. How a plain-language pamphlet created America’s revolutionary mindset 2. The First Three Weeks of the Year Will Reshape the World 3. China Trains AI-Controlled Weapons With Learning From Hawks, Coyotes 4. China’s Xi Places His Top General Under Investigation as Military Purges Heat Up 5. Opinion | A Serious Defense Budget, at … Read more
An Ambassador’s Journal is a new bi-weekly publication on Substack from Arizona State University’s David Scheffer. By subscribing to his substack, you will get to know Professor Scheffer and dive deep into historical topics in world affairs. In his first essay he states, “Given my personal history with international justice, I aim to share my experiences, insights, and stories about … Read more
The 2026 National Defense Strategy, released by the Trump administration on January 23, 2026, marks a major shift in U.S. military priorities toward homeland defense, Western Hemisphere dominance, deterring China in the Indo-Pacific, and demanding greater burden-sharing from allies- signaling a ‘peace through strength’ approach amid evolving global threats. Two things about this year’s strategic document stood out to us: … Read more
Access National Security News HERE. Access Korean News HERE. National Security News: 1. Pentagon releases National Defense Strategy, with homeland defense as top priority 2. Department of War 2026 National Defense Strategy 3. Pentagon’s New Defense Strategy Strikes Conciliatory Tone on China 4. The 2026 National Defense Strategy and the Perils of Muscular Simplification 5. That isn’t signaling. China’s military is seriously rehearsing around Taiwan … Read more