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7/27/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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07.27.2026 at 05:57pm

Access National Security News HERE.

Access Korean News HERE.

National Security News:

1. Assessing Special Operations Forces (SOF) 2040 (Part 3): The Technology Layer – Cyber, Space, and Human-Machine Teaming in 2040
2. Beyond Lawrence: Respect, Legitimacy, and the Enduring Paradox of Indigenous Warfare
3. Trump Pauses Iran Strikes as Officials Weigh Dwindling Air Defense Stocks
4. Top U.S. military commander in Middle East advised halting Hormuz bombing
5. Solving the Wrong Problem? A Practitioners’ Method for Campaigning in Irregular Warfare
6. From Ration Stamps to DoorDash: How Comfort and Socialism Are Disarming America
7. Opinion | The Saudi Nuclear Deal Invites Disaster
8. Opinion | How to Beat China and Make AI Safe
9. Trump wants to give U.S.-Iran talks ‘some space’ as he weighs escalation, aide says
10. Pentagon Changes How It Reports Casualties in Iran War
11. When Impulse becomes Strategy by Robert Bruce Adolph
12. SOF Weekly Brief – July 27, 2026
13. A Historic Shift Is Underway in Asia
14. The Burning Man at the United Nations
15. Destruction is Not Strategy: Schelling and the Coercive Failures of the Iran War
16. Defeating Dialectic and Alchemic Warfare in Cognitive Operations: Reclaiming Rational Doctrine for Western Resilience
17. How Asia Learned to Live With “America First”
18. How Trump’s Iran ‘own goal’ is hitting long-term US strategy to contain Chinese influence
19. Why Norway and Finland Should Preserve Two of Europe’s Most Important Demilitarized Zones

 

Korean News:

1. UNC commander calls Armistice Agreement foundation for peace on Korean Peninsula
2. Korean Armistice endures as collective defense achievement, regional security foundation
3. Photos show North and South Korea still divided 73 years after the armistice
4. S. Korea commemorates U.N. forces’ participation in Korean War
5. Unification ministry honors UNC officer for border area peace efforts
6. How Asia Learned to Live With “America First”.
7. New U.S. Ambassador Steel to arrive in S. Korea this week amid pileup of bilateral issues
8. S. Korea closely monitoring Russia’s reported preparation for more N. Korean troops: foreign ministry
9. South Korea Can Solve The Gulf’s Air-Defense Problem – Analysis
10. Unification ministry reaffirms ‘realistic, practical’ approach to denuclearization
11. Korea must help reinforce nuclear umbrella
12. Nearly 100,000 cyberattacks hit foreign ministry, affiliates in 6 months

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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