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8/31/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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08.31.2026 at 06:20pm
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National Security News:

1. Pentagon secretly installs military influencers in civilian roles
2. Stop Using AI. Start Commanding It
3. Information Overload and Cognitive Fatigue: Preparing Society for the Next Battlefield
4. Opinion | America’s Systemic Munitions Shortfall
5. After Epic Fury, Navy may need an extra $8 billion to be solvent, CNO says
6. The Price of Russian Paranoia: Spy Hunting Shores Up Putin’s Power—but Paralyzes the State
7. Pakistan’s Compellence Trap
8. See Nepali Rescue Workers Testing Aid Delivery by Drone
9. How the Nepal flash flood unleashed a wave of anti-China misinformation
10. Rethinking Australia’s alliance debate: Disengagement is not a strategy
11. The Geopolitical Mismatch Driving Russia to Threaten the West
12. Opinion | A looming threat: U.S. military’s reliance on Chinese batteries
13. US plans to cut off military aid to key Middle East ally, BBC told
14. Maybe We Should Have Started Here
15. Fighting Flares in Middle East After U.S. Strike on Iranian Rocket Launchers
16. SOF Weekly Brief – August 31, 2026
17. Why Ukraine Hasn’t Broken
18. China’s robot beat Bolt – then it hit the wall

 

Korean News:

1. The danger of a Trump-Kim deal that ‘ENDs’ at normalization
2. Trump’s trifecta of failure on Seoul hands Kim Jong Un the advantage
3. North Korea rejects U.S. ‘hostile’ policy, vows to bolster nukes
4. The Blueprint for an Invasion of South Korea: How a Second Korean War Would Unfold
5. S. Korea gov’t launches 2nd half program to recover remains of fallen Korean War soldiers
6. Lee’s approval rating falls below 40 pct for 1st time: poll
7. Perils of a Trump-Kim summit without denuclearization
8. Wang Yi’s visit signals major shift in China’s Korea policy
9. Trump aims to meet North’s Kim to ‘jump-start’ talks, ex-official says
10. Outgoing defense minister expresses ‘mixed’ feelings following Cabinet reshuffle
11. Hanwha Aerospace signs deal to export K9 howitzers to Spain
12. S. Korea defense nominee faces tests on military reform, wartime control
13. North Korea skims pay hike meant for workers sent to China
14. North Korean youth embrace hand gestures to express emotion

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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