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9/6/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

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09.06.2026 at 07:34pm

Access National Security News HERE.

Access Korean News HERE.

National Security News:

1. Special Operations Forces Modernization, the Human Domain, and the Search for Our Comparative Advantage (The Evolution of USASOC)
2. From the Battlefield to the Pentagon: Chris Miller on the Future of Special Operations
3. Ukraine Considers Legalizing Porn Industry to Fund Its War Chest
4. Trump Calls the Iran War ‘Small Potatoes.’ The Polling Says He Is Right
5. America Isn’t ‘Technically’ at War with Iran But America Is Still Paying the Price Day After Day
6. White House video games depict migrant captures, building border wall
7. Inside the Battle to Save One Pioneering General From Hegseth’s Purge
8. Chinese military university urged to revise AI course to ‘educate for war’
9. How Scared Should We Be of A.I. Right Now?
10. What Was the War on Terror?
11. Hegseth Has Turned the Army Into a Rudderless Ship By James Stavridis
12. Trump Plans State Dinner for Xi During China Leader’s US Trip
13. B-52 bombers land in Australia as defense chiefs signal larger US footprint Down Under
14. Cognitive Warfare at America’s Edge
15. Stop declaring World War III
16. U.S. Strikes Three Iranian Ships After Missiles Fired at American Aircraft Carrier
17. China’s Civil-Military Drone Fusion
18. At Taiwan’s Temples, a Glimpse of What China Could Have Been
19. How Billions in Iranian Money Passes Through U.S. Banks

 

Korean News:

1. Here are some thoughts on the current state of the Korea-U.S. alliance from LTG Chun In-Bum
2. What the Iran War Proved About America’s Nuclear Weapons Threat to North Korea
3. How Trump’s order to scale back drills complicates Seoul’s wartime command bid
4. Why can’t the South stop the North’s repeated MDL crossings?
5. Chinese ambassador thanks Korean rescuers after survivor found in Nepal floods
6. FM Cho arrives in Nepal for ministerial talks on massive flood response
7. Corporate response team continues search for 9 S. Koreans missing in Nepal floods
8. On the frontlines: South Korea’s female Marines
9. Civic groups call for UNESCO listing of comfort women documents
10. From White House pledge to Louisiana, Hyundai’s $5.8b bet takes shape
11.  North Korean youth rush marriage for a shot at overseas work
12. N. Korea tightens vetting for overseas workers, demands verified contacts
13. Indonesian marines conduct shooting drill with US, Japan, South Korea

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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