1/16/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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National Security News:

1. William P. Yarborough and the Birth of the American Paratrooper Image
2. PODCAST: Rob Thelen on the US Army IWar Initiative
3. With Military Action on Hold, the U.S. Puts New Sanctions on Iran
4. Trump Was Told Attack on Iran Wouldn’t Guarantee Collapse of Regime
5. China This Week: Strategic Moves and Messaging
6. ‘A Massacre Happened’: The 24 Hours That Bloodied Iran
7. Chinese AI Developers Say They Can’t Beat America Without Better Chips
8. Europe Deploys Troops to Greenland in Message to Trump
9. Defense Department says military newspaper Stars and Stripes must eliminate ‘woke distractions’
10. Japan’s Delicate Foreign Policy Balancing Act
11. Is the US adopting the gray zone cyber playbook?
12. Potemkin Airwaves (USAGM, VOA, etc)
13. China’s US envoy says world faces ‘stark choice’ as 2026 opens with instability
14. The Triage Trap: When AI Speed Replaces Command Judgment
15. Obedience, Ambiguity, and Punishment: The Chinese Military at Tiananmen Revisited
16. AI-Enabled Wargaming at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College: Its Implications for PME and Operational Planning
17. The Shadow War Within the Larger Conflict
18. How Venezuela Becomes a Quagmire
19. Iran and the Limits of American Power
20. America’s Special Forces Are Caught Up in the AI Craze
21. Conditioning the Battlefield at Home
22. Detachment B-52 Recon Tips of the Trade
23. Jay Collins Sidesteps Question About Possible Tie to Elite Delta Force
24. Cognitive Warfare: An Allied Blueprint and a Pentagon Opp

Korean News:

1. A new world order drawn by Kim Jong Un, Putin and Xi Jinping
2.With smiling selfies and K-pop jam session, Japan and China woo South Korea
3. Unification Ministry seeks control of research institute, staff wary
4. U.S.-ROK-Japan Trilateral Next-Gen Study Group
5. Unification, foreign ministries launch regular consultative channel on N. Korea policy
6. USFK commander highlights ‘centrality’ of S. Korea in security of Indo-Pacific
7. What to make of reports that Russia tried to ship a nuke reactor to North Korea
8. Lee stresses mutually beneficial relations with Japan
9. Seoul seeks to streamline import rules for North Korea food products
10. ‘Civilian’ faces probes over drone incursion alleged by North
11. Revised law allows disciplinary action against JCS chairman, Army chief
12. N. Korea to stage large-scale youth events ahead of party congress
13. S. Korean, U.S. Marines stage regular joint winter drills
14. What a hit ROK film gets right — and wrong — about Christianity in North Korea

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