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7/8/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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07.08.2026 at 04:31pm
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National Security News:

1. Exclusive: US commanders bypassed warnings about outdated intelligence ahead of strike that hit school in Iran, sources say
2. U.S. Launches Strikes on Iran in Response to Ship Attacks in Hormuz
3. The Pentagon Must Undertake Its Own Transformation by Bing West
4. A New Model to Fund War: A World Bank for Defense
5.Opinion | Ukraine Is Redefining Modern Warfare By David H. Petraeus and Clara Kaluderovic
6. Putin May Escalate, but Ukraine Is Winning
7. Trump’s NATO-bashing casts shadow over U.S. pledge to defend allies
8. More salami-slicing: now China mounts coast guard patrols east of Taiwan
9. America Needs Another Look at ‘Competitive Strategies’
10. Not Just Rare Earths – Is This China’s Next Economic Weapon?
11. Opinion | Tocqueville Deserves a Washington Statue
12. Trump Says Ceasefire With Iran Is Over
13. The Ukraine Lesson Taiwan Keeps Missing
14. Ukraine Is Already Changing the Future of War
15. Iran Didn’t Need to Win The War. It Needed to Outlast It
16. Venezuela: A Study in Coercion
17. The Silent Dependency: GNSS Vulnerabilities, Quantum PNT, and the Future of Small Wars
18. The Age of Energy Warfare: Lessons from the Ukraine and Iran Wars
19. President touts democratic cooperation to address China’s “gray zone”
20. Talk of US-China decoupling is getting loud – but neither side is ready for a clean break
21. Australia’s South China Sea presence may soon face a strategic test
22. China says countries should not overread Pacific SLBM test

Korean News:

1. Michelle Steel to Strengthen U.S.-South Korea Ties as New Ambassador
2. South Korea’s Defense Industry: 4 Losses to Team Europe
3. Korean President Lee calls for ‘defense industry partnership 2.0’ with NATO
4. Canada’s submarine decision exposes limits of K-defense exports
5. China says countries should not overread Pacific SLBM test
6. ‘Dictator in training’: Kim Ju-ae’s appearances in North Korean media show she’s not just a little girl anymore
7. Tax evasion in Moscow reveals early North Korean labor supply scheme: records
8. Kim Jong Un visits mausoleum to mark 32nd death anniversary of Kim Il Sung
9. Seoul launches new team to counter North Korean drone and nuclear threats
10. S. Korea honors defense industry contributions on K-Defense Day
11. S. Korea, NATO to launch negotiations on basic procurement agreement: Seoul official
12. U.S. requests information on S. Korean shipbuilders’ naval construction capacity: sources
13. S. Korea, U.S., Japan reaffirm N.K. denuclearization commitment, vow to boost economic security ties

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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