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7/2/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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07.02.2026 at 05:12pm

Access National Security News HERE.

Access Korean News HERE.

National Security News:

1. Modern war and the systemic learning deficit in Western military institutions
2. Why Hasn’t the Trump Administration Complied with the Law on Reporting Iran Agreements to Congress?
3. A Taiwan Crisis Is Coming — and Xi May Not Wait
4. Taiwan’s President Warns Military Cadets Against Chinese Espionage
5. The West is Losing the Cognitive War Russia Never Stopped Fighting
6. Hegseth realigning DOD’s scattered unmanned and autonomy work under new drone boss
7. Video purportedly shows Ukrainian unit running down Russian Shahed. The US is paying attention
8. US evaluates moving CENTCOM forces and naval assets to Israel after Iran war
9. The defense sector confronts the growing convergence of cyber and kinetic domains
10. When AI Turns Against the Machine: The Emerging Threat of LLMs Targeting AI Infrastructure
11. The Black Box Problem in Cognitive Warfare: Why “Targeting Cognition” Is Not Enough
12. Rash of Drone Incursions Shows European Vulnerability, Experts Say
13. One Year of Watching China: What the Pattern Reveals About Power
14. DOW Launches BuildFreedom.US, Announces $10M Skilled Trades Investment With Mike Rowe and Forge the Next-Generation Industrial Workforce
15. Xi-Trump Meeting: How China Seized Control Of The Narrative And Agenda – Analysis
16. The Korean War offers lessons for a fragile US-Iran ceasefire
17. Last of the Breed: P-520 Crash Boat Rescued WWII Airmen Before the Sea Could Claim Them
18. Trump Pledged No Forever Wars. Now He Risks Forever Talks With Iran.
19. More Espionage than Firepower: The Right Analogue for Understanding Cyber Operations
20. The Blind Spots in Chinese Military Studies
21. Who Is China? Beijing’s Self-Inflicted Identity Crisis
22. Annual ‘religious liberty training’ for troops could be on the way
23. What the Founders Didn’t Trust

Korean News:

1. Blind spots in Washington’s anti-China lens: Failing to see the true nature of North Korea.
2. “Remarks of Greg Scarlatoiu, HRNK President & CEO” The UN Online Symposium on the Abduction Issue
3. The Korean War offers lessons for a fragile US-Iran ceasefire
4. What Draws Trump to Kim Jong Un? The Answer Is Personal
5. South Korea’s young protesters put process before results
6. South Korea’s young protesters put process before results
7. House report accuses Seoul of targeting Coupang, U.S. firms
8. S. Korea parliamentary committee conducts 1st on-site inspection at blockaded vote counting site
9. NIS Refutes U.S. House Report on Coupang Data Leak
10. South Korea expands job platform for former U.S. troops
11. Seoul ministry prematurely renamed ‘defectors’ as migrants: human rights group
12. Human Rights Commission Recommends Defector Consultation on Name Change
13. North Korean schools shift focus to Kim Jong Un idolization
14. Seoul holds live-fire drills near disputed sea border with North Korea
15. EU envoy calls North-Russia military ties ‘clear risk,’ backs South Korea as ‘like-minded partner’
16. S. Korea expresses regret over U.S. House report alleging discriminatory treatment of Coupang
17. Vice chair of unification council raises need to call N. Korea by its official name

About The Author

  • Dave 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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