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8/18/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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08.18.2026 at 09:23pm
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National Security News:

1. How Alliances Survive: The Case Against Pessimism and the Path to a New Allied Order
2. Iran-Backed Houthis Threaten Coast Along Red Sea Chokepoint
3. Why Trump Is Threatening Again to Bomb Oman
4. Taiwan launches first live-fire exercise with first-person view drones
5. PLA troops sent gold, New Taiwan and US dollars in ‘wartime financial support’ drill
6. Trump posts map labeling Strait of Hormuz as US territory
7. Modern War Demands a Data-Centric, Cloud-Based Command and Control Architecture
8. Top Chinese general draws on Jiang’s legacy to highlight importance of loyalty in military
9. The Invisible Force Multiplier: Distributed Innovation Beyond the Battlefield in Ukraine
10. Why the Army’s Messaging About COIN Is Dangerous
11. Pentagon scrutinizes foreign research ties at 30 US academic institutions
12. The Pacific’s Carrier Gap = Win for China
13. Russia Is Expanding Its Long-Range Strike Drone Network
14. AI and the Risks of Tearing Down an Old System
15. An Explosive Problem: Energetics, Supply Chain Fragility, and US Military Readiness
16. What Was the War on Terror?
17. Colby’s reassurance deepens Manila’s trilemma
18. ‘Everybody loves a winner’: US-Ukraine intel sharing surges as Kyiv racks up wins
19. Cyber Firms Face High-Risk, Low-Reward Choice Under New U.S. Hacking Plan

 

Korean News:

1. ‘Not the way it works’: Korea’s miscalculation on trade may cost them on security
2. How Alliances Survive: The Case Against Pessimism and the Path to a New Allied Order
3. Trump says Kim Jong Un has responded to his request for talks
4. Facing Quagmire in Iran, Trump Turns to a Familiar Face: North Korea’s Kim Jong-un
5. Korea a ‘Living Monument’ for Fallen U.S. Officers’ Families
6. Reading Stoicism for 30 days: Rethinking the meaning of freedom
7. Major exercise in South Korea continues after Trump orders US role curtailed
8. Asian allies stress ‘critical’ US cooperation as Trump slashes Korea drills
9. USFK commander visits defense ministry after Trump’s order to reduce joint exercise with S. Korea
10. Trump and the changing price of alliance
11. Trump’s words on South Korea-US joint military drills drive a wedge
12. Seoul in close consultation with U.S. over combined military exercises: security adviser
13. Chinese FM Wang Yi to visit S. Korea this week: foreign ministry
14. Why Lee is pushing to regain wartime OPCON within his term

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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