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8/27/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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08.27.2026 at 05:58pm
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National Security News:

1. They Saw it Coming – How American military planners anticipated failure in Iran
2. Before Hegseth fired him, top general was advised to drop Kid Rock probe
3. Why Standoff Fires Won’t Save Taiwan Without an Armed Underground
4. Exclusive | CIA Chief’s Surprise Moscow Trip Was to Warn Russia Not to Attack NATO
5. Where Drones Cannot See, the Ukraine War Is a Deadly Game of Cat and Mouse
6. Military buildings need $285 billion worth of maintenance, report says
7. Fake US thinktank set up and funded by Israel sought to game AI for propaganda
8. Ukraine’s Most Potent Weapon: The Software Orchestrating Its Drone Army
9. U.S. weapons shortage from Iran war alarms allies confronting China
10. The Censorship Machine: Silencing the National Security Workforce
11. Japan fast-tracks anti-drone system amid China’s military build-up
12. Wang Yi calls on US to ‘overcome obstacles’ ahead of Xi-Trump meeting
13. UNTYING THE OODA LOOP: FUTURE COMMAND AND DECISION MAKING
14. Ortiz’s War: The last great untold story of WWII Before Navy SEALs, before Delta Force—there was Peter Ortiz.
15. China’s view of Trump’s America has changed from alarm to a shrug
16. Taiwan parliament rejects government military drone plan, passes own version
17. Exclusive | FBI Shuts Down Sprawling China-Linked Hacking Network
18. The Hybrid Battlefield
19. The Ground Station Gap: Why Arctic Space Power Runs Through Norway
20. Soldier Wellness is Unit Readiness: One Brigade’s Public-Private Prevention Experiment
21. AI Is Lowering the Barriers to China’s Information Warfare Against Japan

 

Korean News:

1. The Goldilocks Fallacy: The Undefined Limits of Korea’s Nuclear Role
2. N. Korea’s nuclear capabilities grow 100,000 times over 30 years: unification minister
3. North Korea threatens ‘powerful response’ over U.S. arms sales to Seoul
4.Trump’s America is losing Koreans
5. Korea’s disillusionment with America runs deeper than Trump
6. Trump Declares National Emergency Over Grid Security, Boosting Korean Firms with U.S. Factories
7. Trained to infiltrate N. Korea, then forgotten: Ex-agent recounts 3 secret years
8. Ex-special forces commander sentenced to 12-yr prison term for martial law role
9. Seoul seeks better public input after disrupted hearing on military academy plan
10. JCS chief visits Air Force fighter wing, Army missile unit to inspect readiness
11. Poland Deploys 28 K2 Black Panther Tanks Near Russia as It Hardens Eastern Defenses
12. U.S. scholar suggests S. Korea refrain from ‘bad-mouthing’ N. Korea for peace coexistence
13. S. Korea unveils tougher measures to curb illegal Chinese fishing near NLL
14. Parliamentary speaker calls on China to play ‘constructive role’ on Korean Peninsula
15. State Dept. reaffirms U.S. commitment to ‘complete’ denuclearization of N. Korea
16.S. Korea to launch homegrown Nuri rocket on Oct. 7
17. [In-depth: North Korea-Iran military cooperation 1] Inside Iranian missiles ‘Traces of North Korea’… “Technological lineage is clear, opinions differ on current cooperation”
18. [In-depth: North Korea-Iran military cooperation 2] Beyond finished products to technology, parts, and finance…Evolution of the North Korea-Iran missile cooperation network

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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