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8/23/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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08.23.2026 at 08:03pm
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National Security News:

1. The collapse of the postwar order:  Realities on democracy and immigration will end it
2. How Pacific nations walk a tightrope between Western security and Chinese trade
3. Is the tide at home turning against President Zelensky?
4. US pushes ‘America First’ agenda in Apec talks ahead of Chinese leader’s visit
5. China’s Own Version of Ambiguity in the Taiwan Strait
6. Building Strategic Depth, Longer Range Sanctions, Putin’s Speech and North Korean Learning About Modern War. The Big Five, 23 August edition
7. Fired Editor Of Stars And Stripes Military Newspaper Says He’s Concerned About Censorship At The Pentagon
8. Trump threatens lawsuit against nonprofit that questioned whether National Guard plan lessened crime
9. Longtime Voice of America Journalist Sues Trump Administration for Twisting Broadcaster Into Government Mouthpiece
10. USNI News Western Pacific Pulse: Aug. 21, 2026 (Ship Movements and Exercises)
11. There’s no shortcut to replenish US munitions stockpiles
12. US allies in Asia wary as Trump moves military assets for Iran war
13. Are America’s vast Gulf bases worth rebuilding?
14. The Oldest Battlefield: The Contest for Orientation from Lippmann to Boyd
15. The U.S. Start-Up Making Low-Cost Interceptors for the Iran War
16. Why Cambodia is reviving US military drills despite close China ties
17. 23 Years Later, General Jim Mattis’s Advice to His Marines in Iraq Is Still the Most Quoted Line in the Modern Military
18. 81 Years Later, US Navy Admiral Chester Nimitz’s Sentence About Iwo Jima Is Still the Finest Thing Ever Written About US Marines

 

Korean News:

1. Training on the Korean Peninsula: Navigating Complex Political and Military Minefields
2. Building Strategic Depth, Longer Range Sanctions, Putin’s Speech and North Korean Learning About Modern War. The Big Five, 23 August edition
3. Open letter to new US envoy Michelle Steel
4. No signs of additional deployment of N. Korean troops to Russia detected: S. Korean military
5. Questions grow over Trump’s commitment to N. Korea denuclearization goal
6. Tariffs just pushed Hyundai deeper into America
7. North Korea raps South’s ‘double-dealing’ remarks on US drills move
8. Trump and Kim’s renewed bromance stirs new and old threats for Australia
9. No easy encore for Trump and Kim Jong Un
10. A Door Ajar, a High Bar: Whither North Korea-US Relations?
11. North Korea’s Restrained Signaling Toward China Continues
12. Trump Moves to Scale Back US War Drills in Korea. We Should Support That.
13. Democrats step up offensive over Trump’s reduction of drills with S. Korea, push for summitry with Kim
14. Hanwha Group to invest $299 mil. into US defense subsidiaries
15. The art of the bluff: Trump claims Lee said, ‘No thanks.’ Seoul says no call.

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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