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7/9/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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07.09.2026 at 04:34pm
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National Security News:

1. U.S. Launches New Strikes on Iran After Trump Declares Ceasefire Over
2. Beijing’s own goal in the Pacific
3. Where Have All The Soldiers Gone? Falling birthrights cut into Asian militaries numbers of boots on the ground
4. Why Australia Is Locked in a ‘Permanent Contest’ With China in the Pacific
5. Reassessing the US Alliance System
6. Airpower Did Not Fail in Iran — Simplistic Thinking Did
7. Redundancy and Resilience: Measures of Network Robustness
8. NATO Sets a Lower Bar for Success: Keeping Trump Happy
9. NATO, Indo-Pacific 4 pledge defence, tech boost as deeper China-Russia ties spark alarm
10. Taiwan and Poland’s Drone Industry Convergence
11. China closes AI gap with this simple trick (allegedly)
12. The ‘Ugly American’ and the ‘Ugly Ally’
13. Why Do Iran and the U.S. Keep Fighting During a Cease-Fire?
14. Ukraine’s Six-Part Strategy to Survive the Global Run on Patriot Missiles
15. China Weighs Limits on the AI Models American Companies Love
16. If You Can Run a Spy, You Can Run AI
17. Endless Warfare – Part II: Countering Endless Warfare and its Networks
18. Coercive Signaling, Cognitive Warfare, or Total War? Legal and Strategic Reflections on the US–Israel–Iran War
19. A Way Out of the Iran Mess
20. Trump Is Remaking Latin America

Korean News:

1. North Korea drops ‘nation’ from Kim Il Sung memorial phrase
2. Lee says will seek ‘phased’ denuclearization of Korea, calls for help from Mongolia as trusted partner
3. North Korea calls Seoul-Tokyo military cooperation ‘self-destruction’
4. Ex-Trump official says S. Korea’s nuclear armament would lead to heightened tension
5. Lee, Mongolian president pledge closer cooperation on critical minerals, trade, advanced tech
6. Lee offers $100 million for Ukraine reconstruction in first official summit with Zelensky at NATO
7. N. Korea’s premier to visit China to mark 65th anniv. of signing of friendship treaty: KCNA
8. Editorial: Strengthening NATO Bloc, Relying on Korea-U.S.-Japan Cooperation
9. Lee and Trump move forward on speedy US warship construction
10. Seoul, Washington agree to keep Coupang dispute from weighing on alliance: envoy
11. Maximizing Korea’s AI momentum
12. Canada loss offers defense industry lessons
13. Smugglers in Hyesan take up Chinese lessons

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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