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

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08.07.2026 at 10:19pm
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National Security News:

1. Exclusive | U.S. Intel Finds Putin Could Test NATO’s Resolve With Limited Incursion
2. Iran and Ukraine Aren’t Just Wars About Energy. They’re Wars Targeting Energy.
3. Can Iran’s Diminished Diplomats Deliver a Hormuz Deal?
4. The Chinese Way of Lawfare: Beijing’s Quest to Challenge America’s Legal Hegemony
5. BLUF: The US Must Lead in Gray Zone Activity
6. After Putin: Russia’s Coming Succession Crisis
7. The Autocratic Alliance Is Getting Even Stronger
8. Badakhshan and the First Signs of a Localized Anti-Taliban Insurgency in Afghanistan
9. The Wars We Failed to Understand: A Review of Peter Bergen’s All the Presidents’ Wars
10. Western Thoughts on Counterinsurgency: From 17th Century to the Present
11. Armed UAV at Leipzig Airport: Only a Matter of Time Before Something Goes Bang
12. How the U.S. Squandered Its Strategic Advantage
13. Strategic Attack on Iran: Airpower’s Promises, Limits, and Lessons
14. Deceive or Die: Revitalizing Military Deception for Large-Scale Combat Operations
15. The Afghan Army: What Advisors Couldn’t See and Officers Couldn’t Change
16. How Can U.S. Special Operations Forces Help Defeat China on Taiwan?
17. How US became trapped in ‘dreadful situation’ of its own making over Iran war
18. The Arsenal and the Statehouse: New Defense Firms, Venture Capital and State Industrial Policy
19. Everyone is learning the wrong lessons from Ukraine’s drone war
20. American veterans know the cost of a military-first foreign policy
21.  Both Trump and young Americans are warming to China
22. US universities report more Chinese applicants despite visa crackdown

 

Korean News:

1. Pyongyang Missile Test Signals Growing Conflict Between North Korea and U.S. Allies
2. South Korea, U.S. push wartime control review during August drill
3. Foreign Ministry moves to defuse rift with Unification Ministry
4. Unification advisers say using N. Korea’s official name is not new
5. The Autocratic Alliance Is Getting Even Stronger
6. Defense ministry reaffirms commitment to swift integration of military academies
7. U.S. senator reintroduces bill to expedite humanitarian aid to N. Koreans
8. U.S. House Republicans criticize Korea’s revised communications law, request meeting
9. N. Korea’s state media silent on Thursday’s missile launch
10. As North Korea fortifies the DMZ, a cease-fire buffer is again becoming a frontline security test
11. US unlikely to send tactical nuclear weapons back to Korean Peninsula
12. 6 S. Korean activists booked over unauthorized Ukraine visit on N. Korean POWs
13. Lee calls on generals to help restore public trust in military after martial law imposition
14. South Korean President Lee Jae-myung urges measure to prevent coups by army leaders

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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