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5/18/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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05.18.2026 at 05:04pm
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National Security News:

1. China ratcheting up aggression, ex-AIT head says
2. Stop Calling It the “Gray Zone”: How China Exploits the Language of Ambiguity
3. Putin and the Cliff-Edge Fallacy
4. Japan Emerges as Asia’s New Strategic Anchor
5. Balikatan Military Drills ‘Directly Relate to a Potential Contingency Involving Taiwan,’ Experts Say
6. Air Force intel vet allegedly spiraled into Iran’s terror underworld: Timeline of deceit, hunt for spy suspect
7.The US Army Ranger Regiment’s Evolution in America’s Longest War and Beyond
8. The World Can’t Get Enough U.S. Energy, Keeping Prices High for Americans
9. America’s Taiwan gap utterly exposed at Trump-Xi summit
10. Trump-Xi summit’s cautious progress and subtle win-wins
11. Kyiv Enters a Hopeful Spring After Surviving the War’s Darkest Winter
12. Opinion | How to Finish the Job in Iran
13. In Iraqi Desert, Two Israeli Outposts Were Kept Secret for M
14. Beijing’s War Dividend: China’s Asymmetric Gains from the US-Israeli Campaign Against Iran
15. A Memorandum Is Not a Strategy: What the Iran MoU Must Contain to Be More Than a Deferral
16. Iran: It’s the Constitution!
17. Army Aviation’s Wasted Decade: Lessons for the Next Generation of Drone Integration
18. Missiles Aren’t Strategy: Lessons From Iran for a Pacific Air War
19. The Last A-Team: Special Forces Aren’t Special Anymore Are the Green Berets Irrelevant? The Case for Special Forces Transformation

Korean News:

1. Unification white paper pivots to peaceful ‘two-state’ coexistence with N. Korea
2. North Korea’s Kim calls for ‘impregnable fortress’ at southern border
3. N. Korea’s Kim chairs army commanders’ meeting, orders southern border defense buildup
4. US, China to work on denuclearizing North Korea: White House
5. North Korean officials tour drone operator training facility in Russian Far East
6. Starbucks Korea apologizes over promotion linked to democracy movement memories
7. 6 former NIS officials booked over alleged role in insurrection
8. Iran War Sidelines North Korean Nuclear Issue

About The Author

  • David Maxwell

    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 the Editor-at-Large of Small Wars Journal.

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