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8/16/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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08.16.2026 at 09:35pm
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National Security News:

1. “The Rule of LGOPs” (Little Groups of Paratroopers) John Marke © 2015 (rev of 2011)
2. As China Pushes to Expand in Asia, Trump Focuses on Iran
3. America Keeps Falling for the Short-War Fallacy
4. Iran fires back at Trump’s threat to declare Hormuz a US territory
5. Ukraine’s Long Shot
6. Iran War Commander Visits the USS Abraham Lincoln
7. Navy weighs major warship redesign to match Trump’s preferences
8. Frustration with Trump grows among U.S.’s Persian Gulf allies, officials say
9. Opinion | Keeping Up With the Jones Act Waiver
10. This Sprawling Chinese Refinery Is Bankrolling Tehran
11. My encounter with Carlos the Jackal, the world’s first celebrity terrorist
12.  Essay | I Write Political Thrillers. Here’s How I Think About Conspiracy Theories.
13. How the “censorship-industrial complex” is changing the internet and US policy
14. How ideas of a vast censorship network moved from the online fringe to Trump policy
15. Media Pushing Carrier Crew Mental Health Story As Iran Blockade Is Working
16. New White House Memo Calls for Foreign-Built Warships
17. Taiwan Wants to Know Why Indonesia Joined China in a Naval Exercise East of Taiwan
18. What Nolan’s Odysseus tells us about Western elite’s existential angst

 

Korean News:

1. South Korean youth leader calls for global reunification movement
2. Ministry of Unification to Replace ‘Main Enemy’ Terminology
3. N. Korea silent on Lee’s proposal for dialogue to officially end Korean War
4. Trump posts photo with N.K. leader Kim, says he, Kim ‘get along great’
5. S. Korean military fires warning shots after N. Korean troops briefly cross MDL
6. N.K. leader expects ‘more excellent future’ in ties with Russia in message to Putin
7. Korea relaunches hunt for assets accumulated by pro-Japanese collaborators
8. State-sponsored cyberattacks from N. Korea, China, Russia rise 7.5% in 1st half of 2026
9. Has Hallyu peaked? After 30 years, Korea’s cultural wave faces a reckoning
10. Clash of Clans knockoff popular in North Korea with more than 40,000 players online
11. Tariffs, Coupang and the Korus FTA in ‘sleep mode’
12. Remembering the ‘comfort women’ victims
13. Kim Koo’s dream of a cultural nation and his vision for world peace
14. Pentagon Policy Chief Reassures Indo-Pacific Allies but Neglects Korea Ahead of Joint War Games

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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