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8/19/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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08.19.2026 at 09:46pm
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National Security News:

1. The Abraham Lincoln is suffering from the US navy’s culture problem
2. What happens when the West runs out of interceptor missiles – Going Winchester
3. Donald Trump further undermines trust in American alliances
4. Trump’s chaos may be destroying his own foreign policy
5. Sergei Lavrov says Russia, North Korea fighting for ‘new, righteous’ world order
6. Assuming why military personnel serve ignores a basic fact
7. SOF Weekly Brief – August 18, 2026
8. Technology vs Mission Command: An Evaluation of PLA Infantry Tactics
9. The Powell Principles of AI
10. Donald Trump’s ‘Pivot from Asia’
11. Takaichi’s grand strategy is taking shape
12. A China Strategy That Lasts
13. The Abandoned Order: Learning to Live in a Post-American World
14. Why Iranian Propaganda Is Getting Uncomfortably Good
15. The First Clean Signal Is Not Permission to Fire: On Resilience and Governance of Autonomous Systems
16. When Will the 2026 Iran War End?
17. Managed Instability: Why the Wars Against Iran and Ukraine Can Go On and On and On…
18. Proving the Negative: Three Warnings from Arms Control for the Age of AI

 

Korean News:

1. Exclusive | Trump Pushes for Kim Jong Un Meeting This Year
2. After Trump Decree, U.S., South Korea Pare Back Drills That Angered Kim Jong Un
3. Kim Jong-un’s European front
4. Trump Will Make South Korea Pay for His Iran Humiliation
5. Donald Trump further undermines trust in American alliances
6. U.S., South Korea scale back joint military drills after Trump order
7. China Tests South Korea Opening as Trump Unsettles Alliance
8. Trump’s South Korea Shift Tests a Key U.S. Alliance
9. Trump’s chaos may be destroying his own foreign policy
10. Sergei Lavrov says Russia, North Korea fighting for ‘new, righteous’ world order
11. Don’t Punish Seoul to Appease Pyongyang
12. South Korea’s Nuclear Dilemma
13. Kelly, Tillis urge Trump to reverse reduction to joint military exercises with South Korea
14. South Korea’s Highly Mobile 155mm Artillery System Wins U.S. Army Howitzer Contract
15. 6 Reasons Why Kim Jong Un Might Want to Meet With Trump
16. If South Korea won’t defend Hormuz, Trump should pull the nuclear umbrella
17. Opinion | Iran can’t have nuclear weapons but North Korea can? There’s logic here.

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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