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8/5/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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08.05.2026 at 08:06pm
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National Security News:

1. Exclusive | Hegseth’s Pick for Top Army Job Is Losing GOP Support
2. US used ‘virtually all’ long-range precision missiles during Iran war, sources say
3. Iran Is Staking Everything on Controlling the Strait of Hormuz
4. Trump says deal to reopen Strait of Hormuz could come as early as Wednesday
5. Trump should stop negotiating and win against Iran by Kieth Kellogg
6. Why the Iran War Remains Strategically Adrift
7. The Marines Are Racing to Deploy Thousands of Attack Drones
8. One Game Can’t Answer the Arctic Question: Inside NATO’s Bet on Multi-Level Wargaming
9. Enabling Maneuver – Imagining the Next Chapter in Armored Warfare
10. Schools as Strategic Terrain
11. Killer Drones: Ready or Not, Here They Come | American Enterprise Institute
12. Why China’s military is laser-focused on ‘disruptive’ technologies
13. Trump keeps making threats. The world has stopped flinching.
14. Trump claims China is fuelling resistance to AI data centres in the US
15. How the Ukraine War Became a Fight for the Skies
16. Checkers in a Go Tournament: Notes Toward a Theory of 21st Century War: DeMarco Banter
17.  America’s Superintelligence Dilemma: How to Avoid an AI Catastrophe
18. How the Axis of Resistance Recovered: The Iranian-Led Network Is More Dangerous Than Ever

 

Korean News:

1. South Korea proposes dropping ‘main enemy’ label for North Korea
2.Glass Cannon in the First Island Chain: How China Can Fracture the US-Japan-South Korea Warfighting Network
3. South Korean students detained for allegedly breaking into US military base
4. Kim Yo Jong warns Japan over expanding military capabilities
5. South Korea: the ‘model ally’?
6. North Korea May Deploy Missile Unit to Russia for Strikes on Ukraine, Kyiv Intel Warns
7. Defense ministry reaffirms push to set OPCON transition timeline by year-end
8.  Lee cites coup risk from Army elite, calls for swift integration of military academies
9. North Korean attack could leave 76,000 unexploded shells in an hour
10. North Korea threatens response to Japan’s arms buildup ahead of Asian Games
11. As North Korea fortifies the DMZ, new border works near Yeoncheon test the line and the armistice
12. Lee urges stern response to ‘commie’ smears against administration’s N. Korea policy
13. Seoul, Washington deepen alliance through Korean War legacy exchange

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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