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8/18/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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08.18.2025 at 10:00pm
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National Security News Content:

1. The Inevitable Invasion is Over, Now What? Resistance in a Post-Invasion Taiwan
2. Special Operations News – August 18, 2025
3. ‘My Life Became a Living Hell’: One Woman’s Career in Delta Force, the Army’s Most Elite Unit
4. That USSR Sweatshirt at the Alaska Summit Said Everything
5. Zelensky Heads Back to Washington Under Pressure From Putin
6. What Kind of Peace in Ukraine?
7. This Isn’t 1991: Why Putin’s Russia is Facing a Different Kind of Collapse
8. Quarterly 1st SOF Truth event spotlights steps being taken in mitigating blast overpressure
9. How the West Can Halt Putin’s Battlefield Momentum
10. The Russians Are Spooked, With Reason
11. Why Xi Still Doesn’t Have the Military He Wants
12. Russia’s Imperial Black Sea Strategy
13. Inside the US military’s quest for ‘drone dominance’
14. Navy Moving Away from ‘Optionally Manned’ Vessels as Service Mulls Unmanned Future
15. Democratized Intelligence: How Open-Source Intelligence is Reshaping Asymmetric Advantage
16.  Zelensky and European Leaders Press for Security Guarantees in Meeting with Trump
17. Breaking NATO’s Cult of the Urban Offense
18. Zelensky survives another episode of the Trump show
19. Russia’s missile salvoes stretch US defenses from Kyiv to Taipei
20. America Needs a ‘China Tech Power Report’ to Fight the New Cold War
21. The Enlightened Warrior: Applying Reason and Critical Thinking in Special Forces

 

Korean News Content:

1. U.S., South Korea kick off summertime joint military exercise
2. Report: North Korea Sending 6,000 Troops, 100 Tanks to Russia (to Fight in Ukraine?)
3. Global South leaders share lessons on reconciliation at One Korea event
4. Trump’s indifference on NK-Russia military partnership unnerves South Korea
5. Ex-FM Kang likely to be appointed as ambassador to US: sources
6. S. Korea to devise ‘phased denuclearization’ strategy for N. Korea: FM Cho
7. Exclusive: US probes Korean American group seen as Seoul’s proxy
8. Unification minister vows to reinstate suspended inter-Korean tension-reduction pact
9. North Korea-China trade dips to $205M in July but remains far above 2024 levels
10. Russia’s missile salvoes stretch US defenses from Kyiv to Taipei
11. Lee calls for comprehensive security and economic cooperation with U.S. in meeting with visiting senators
12. North Korean aircraft appear to approach maritime border, prompting warnings
13. Lee calls for phased steps to implement existing inter-Korean pacts to restore ties with N. Korea
14. President Trump must not be persuaded by President Lee’s views on ‘respect’ for the North Korean political system

About The Author

  • David Maxwell is a retired U.S. Army Special Forces Colonel who has spent more than 30 years in the Asia Pacific region (primarily Korea, Japan, and the Philippines) as a practitioner, specializing in Northeast Asian Security Affairs and irregular, unconventional, and political warfare. He is the Vice President of the Center for Asia Pacific Strategy. He commanded the Joint Special Operations Task Force Philippines during the war on terrorism and is the former J5 and Chief of Staff of the Special Operations Command Korea, and G3 of the US Army Special Operations Command. Following retirement, he was the Associate Director of the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University. He is a member of the board of directors of the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea and the OSS Society, on the board of advisers of Spirit of America, and is a contributing editor to Small Wars Journal.

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